L' line 4 stop for Perigord paper manufacturer Condat the Lecta Group announced last summer that it would be closing its Condat paper mill, a line dedicated for the past 61 years to the production of double-sided coated paper, a paper prized by the publishing industry. This has now been achieved, with the signing on October 10 of the employment protection plan (PSE) by the various unions at the Condat paper mills, following several weeks of negotiations.
Publishers such as Gallimard, Flammarion, Hachette, Glénat, Larousse or Clairefontaine will undoubtedly have to look for the famous lying Condat Périgord outside France on a Lecta Group site in Spain or Italy. Bad for the carbon footprint!
Above all, however, 174 of the 412 employees at the Lardin-Saint-Lazare site have been laid off, with around 50 retiring earlier than planned and the rest receiving pink slips by November.
A line destined to be transformed
Although production of coated paper has been halted, line 4 looks set for a new future: like line 8, it will produce specialty papers, glassine and single-sided coated paper.
Roland Lescure, Minister Delegate for Industry, announced during his visit to the Dordogne on October 16 that the French government was prepared to provide ?40 million in support for the transformation of the line.
This transfer of activity can only take place if line 8 is running at full capacity, as Roland Lescure explained to France 3. The Minister points out that shareholders still need to make further investments in line 8 to ensure that it remains at full capacity "runs at full power . Line 4 should therefore remain dormant for some time yet.
