The Sustainable Development Committee of the National Assembly opened a parliamentary information mission on the paper recycling industry last July. 11 deputies were chosen to study the sector in France.
"Sector in difficulty, we'll propose concrete recommendations so that it can face the crisis." The rapporteur, Camille Galliard-Minier (LREM, Isère), promised on Twitter.
The work began on September 2 with a visit to Camille Galliard-Minier's Technical Paper Centre in Grenoble. Then on 8 September, the president of the commission, Isabelle Valentin (deputy LR, Haute-Loire), Camille Galliard-Minier and four other members of the commission went to the Vosges mountains to discover the Norske Skog Golbey (NSG) paper mill which produces newsprint and the Clairefontaine paper mills of the Exacompta group which produce office and school supplies.
Yves Bailly, CEO of NSG, and Jean-Marie Nusse, Deputy CEO of Exacompta Clairefontaine, presented the paper industry to the MEPs, but also their point of view on the causes of the industry's difficulties (in particular the rise of digital technology, the closure of the Chinese market, the changes implied by e-commerce) and ways of improving the situation, such as pooling, diversification and innovation, reports the newspaper The Awakening of the Haute-Loire .
The committee has also begun hearings in the National Assembly. On 16 September, Philippe d'Adhémar, President of the French Union of the Cardboard, Paper and Cellulose Industries (Copacel), Paul-Antoine Lacour, General Delegate, and Jan Le Moux, Director of Circular Economy and Product Policy, were heard.
