SEB will close the Isère plant in Saint-Jean-de-Bourne. Operations and all 162 employees will be transferred to a nearby site in Pont Eveque, which will be expanded. About twenty kilometers separate the two sites of the French giant of small household appliances.
The Saint-Jean-de-Bourne plant was dedicated exclusively to the processing of plastics and the production of injection molded parts for the SEB plant in Pont-Evêque, which manufactures Calor brand irons and steam generators worldwide.
By 2020, a new plastics workshop and two storage buildings worth 15 million euros will be built in Pont-Evêque, a spokesman for Seba said. This project, presented to the social partners at the central works council on February 8, is part of the group’s strategy to strengthen its competitiveness in the laundry care industry.
Union problems
The new product line uses increasingly innovative plastic injection molding technologies, including new high-tonnage presses “which the Saint-Jean-de-Bourne plant cannot accommodate,” the spokesman justified. Moreover, Seba continues to say that the new premises in Pont-Evêque will “improve working conditions for employees and optimize logistics flows.”
“The company tells us that all positions will be more or less kept, but in the long run we do not believe this, because the management wants to create a company 4.0 with collaborative robots,” the FO delegate at SEB was worried. “We are promised that there will be no change in schedules or loss of our achievements, but nothing is fixed in black and white,” he added. The FO and CGT tasked the expert to have a broader view of the project than that provided by management. The mobilization of employees is not planned immediately, but “if we lose something, we will mobilize,” warned the trade unionist.
Source: Le Parisien
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