Arkema announces a project to improve the productivity of its Marseille Saint-Menet site and increase its production capacity
The management of the Arkema Marseille Saint-Menet facility has presented to an extraordinary meeting of the Works Council a plan for the site's future aimed at consolidating its activities over the long term by enhancing its reliability and competitiveness, which would entail the loss of 48.5 jobs, and by increasing its production capacity by 10%.
The Marseille Saint-Menet industrial facility specializes in the production of the monomer of the Rilsan® 11 polyamide. The proposed evolution of the site, supported by overall investments of EUR 15 M, is based on two guiding principles:
- optimizing the organizations toward better technical efficiency as well as cost-effectiveness, and the ongoing improvement of safety,
- a reduction in variable costs, while strengthening plant reliability and increasing production capacity by 10%.
The implementation of the project, which should entail the loss of 48.5 jobs, is subject to the preliminary legal information and consultation process with the trade unions. In the light of internal mobility opportunities and the proposed negotiation of early retirement packages, solutions have already been identified to redeploy on the site every employee affected by a job loss.
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