Vencorex: an industrial renunciation chronicle

The takeover of the chemical company by the Chinese group Wanhua turns out to be a new industrial radage: the buyer will take over 80 years of research, patents, processes. It thus ensures a monopoly on all the derivatives of chlorine in Europe. With the blessing of the French government.

On 10 April, the court of commerce in Lyon favoured the takeover of the Grenoblais chemical platform by a Chinese company rather than the cooperative project of the employees. The symptom of our inability to launch the industrial winback, regrets Laurence Ruffin, Vice-President of the General Confederation of Scops and Scic.

The government assures itself that it wants to reindustrialize, but in fact it continues to allow critical national infrastructures to be absorbed by foreign actors. There are judicial decisions that, although technically well-founded, produce a sense of civic concern. On 10 April, the Court of Commerce of Lyon validated the partial resumption of the Vencorex chemical factory by the Chinese group Wanhua, via its Hungarian subsidiary BorsodChem, …

Who will take on the environmental bill of the chemical platform? This is the crucial question that lawyer Pierre Janot poses this Wednesday on behalf of several unions of Vencorex and associations. Because the addition could amount to a billion euros...

The partial resumption of the chemical plant in difficulty Vencorex, near Grenoble, was awarded on Thursday 10 April to the Chinese group Wanhua, via its Hungarian subsidiary BorsodChem. About 50 of the 450 jobs will be preserved, according to the decision of the commercial court of Lyon. An announcement that "siders" the Ecologists of the regional council of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. "L'avenir [...] L的article Resumption of Vencorex and abolition of…