The CPI Bussière printing works, based in Saint-Amand-Montrond in the Cher department, has announced to its social and economic committee a plan to make nine employees redundant. Management also decided to stop production at the Cameron plant. According to the unions, this measure will be effective by May 13 at the latest.
Founded in 1832, CPI Bussière joined the CPI group in 1996. It employs around sixty people and produces mainly paperbacks and general literature. The printing works is presented by CPI France, which has three sites, as its "digital flagship disposing "Europe's largest digital book printing capacity" .
The CPI group, which specializes in black books, is the only one to be equipped with a Cameron. This letterpress-type machine, twenty-five meters long and six meters high, can produce up to 3,500 fully-finished books per hour from rolls of virgin paper.
CPI Bussière's last Cameron still in production arrived in the workshop in 1990.
CPI France management did not respond to our requests.
