To great ills, great remedies. To enable the Duralex plant in La-Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin (Loiret), which had to cease production on 1er November faced with the explosion of energy prices, to start again, the State will grant the company a loan at a subsidized rate, of 15 million euros. This measure is part of the Resilience Plan, a system implemented during the Covid crisis and maintained since, intended to support companies encountering cash flow difficulties.
The Minister Delegate for Industry, Roland Lescure – he went to the Duralex site for the first time on September 16 – must announce this good news to management and the unions, this Monday November 21, thus giving a spectacular kick off Industry Week.
This sum, injected alongside the company’s other financial stakeholders, will make it possible to ” protect ” and of “sustaining this emblematic industrial site of made in France”, we explain in substance at Bercy, before the visit. Duralex, which has put the 250 employees of the factory on partial unemployment, should therefore be able to resume production of its famous glasses with proven solidity in April.
Preserving the French economic fabric
The Minister was also to go to one of the industrial sites of the Maury group, which prints magazines in particular (Paris-Match, Le Point, L’Express) or books for major publishing houses. The group, which employs 600 people in the Loiret on the two sites of Malesherbes and Manchecourt, saw its electricity bill multiply by four between 2021 and 2022. The strengthening and extension of the aid system to deal with the energy crisis will allow Maury to receive around 10 million euros by the end of 2023, according to calculations by the Ministry for Industry. The group has already received just over 2 million euros in aid since the start of the crisis.
These announcements follow the statements of the Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, Saturday, November 19. Guest of the program “We don’t stop the eco” on France Inter, Mr. Le Maire had reaffirmed the will of the executive to preserve the French economic fabric. “We have protected our businesses during the Covid crisis. We protect them against rising electricity and gas prices,” he reminded. The minister had also announced a further expansion of the scope of companies eligible for aid, a relaxation of the eligibility criteria and payment deadlines.
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