In Sologne, a school trains in machining thanks to orders from local SMEs

“In high school, I was afraid of the crowd and the high school pro didn’t want mesighs Emeline (the students wished to remain anonymous), 16 years old. When I told my teachers that I was going to the Salbris production school, they told me that I wasn’t going to make it. Fortunately, my parents were fully behind me. » This daughter of a worker at the gravel quarry in Brinon-sur-Sauldre (Cher) and a lens cutter at the eyewear factory in Nouan-le-Fuzelier (Loir-et-Cher) has just finish a small series of steel parts ordered by a manufacturer of train doors based in Contres (Loir-et-Cher), about fifty kilometers away.

The Maurice-Leroux production school, in Salbris (Loir-et-Cher), on January 5, 2023.

Faced with imposing machines, around twenty Solognot teenagers aged 14 to 17, most of them school dropouts, are training for machining technician positions for twenty hours of production per week, i.e. 70% of their schedule. . The remaining 30% is used to teach general subjects, adapted to the realities of the workshop (mathematics and blueprint reading, for example).

The training costs 50 euros per month. A toolbox and a uniform are offered at the entrance. The students are destined, once they graduate, to join the mechanical SMEs in the employment area.

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Because here, companies participate in the governance of this establishment outside the contract and in its financing: if the school benefits from subsidies from the Centre-Val de Loire region and from the department, from the France Relance program, from donations from foundations such as that of Total Energie, it also lives thanks to the “true” orders placed with students by sub-contractors in the automotive, railway, aeronautical… and soon arms industries.

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The MBDA missile is 15 kilometers away: “Contacts have been made with its subcontractors for possible orders”, indicates Dominique Gardy, president of the association which brought the school project to Salbris and also president of the National Federation of Production Schools. The country currently has 56, 14 additional schools will open at the start of the school year in September.

Constance de Marne, director of the school, and Dominique Gardy, president of the Sens et Talents association, at the Maurice-Leroux production school, in Salbris (Loir-et-Cher), January 5, 2023

Launched in September 2021, the Salbris school was built on the ruins of a great industrial history. At the turn of the 2000s, Salbris found itself brutally devastated. Ammunition manufacturer Giat closed in 1999 and cut 1,200 jobs. That of components for Matra missiles withdraws two later and in cash 400.

More and more companies are embarking on the creation of schools to build up a pool of tailor-made workers

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