Puy-de-Dôme: the Banque de France will pass its banknote printing plant to Vic-le-Comte

The venture had been postponed numerous instances. The General Council of the financial institution, equivalent to a board of directors, has validated the imminent creation of a brand new Banque de France banknote manufacturing facility in Vic-le-Comte, in Puy-de-Dôme.

“The selection of the General Council became to validate the undertaking, in itself it's far very good news”, welcomed the director widespread of the means of price of the bank Erick Lacourrège in a cellphone interview with AFP.

 

Work ought to start quickly: the bank is now getting into a new section of about two months earlier than the “begin as such of the construction of the plant”, consistent with Erick Lacourrège.

A assignment behind schedule with the aid of a strike

The production of a new ticket printing plant to replace the modern-day plant in Chamalières, close to Clermont-Ferrand, turned into first of all finished closing summer time. But it had been suspended in early June by management following a strike referred to as in December 2022.

The strikers denounced a “competitiveness plan” planning to reduce from 4 to 3 the range of marketers around certain machines on the brand new web site.

 

The signing of an settlement this week by means of the CGT Banque de France positioned an cease to this social conflict and “paves the manner for the implementation of Refoundation”, the name given to the new factory project, indicates a press launch from the principal financial institution despatched after the meeting on Friday.

This agreement offers for “numerous measures including the appointment with the aid of September of an ergonomist who will make certain, accompanied by means of a joint group, the preventive treatment of complication”, is it also indicated in the report. An splendid bonus of 500 euros can also be paid to printers, strikers and non-strikers.

The General Council of the bank “welcomed with pleasure the fulfillment of those negotiations and the involvement of the social partners in achieving this promising result”, specifies the click launch.

A “massive” investment

The showdown among management and the strikers, which lasted more than 7 months, even mobilized LFI deputy Eric Coquerel, additionally chairman of the National Assembly’s Finance Committee, but additionally Laurent Brun, quantity  of the CGT and secretary fashionable of the federation of railway people, both gift at an indication on June 28 in the front of the bank’s headquarters in Paris.

“Our business enterprise, that is most of the people in the manufacture of banknotes and the institution’s leading union, stays vigilant as to the follow-as much as this document and force of proposals for its correct finalization”, reacted the CGT Banque de France.

 

The agreement concluded between the unions and the bank provides that the contemporary manufacturing facility in Chamalières, also in Puy-de-Dôme a few 30 kilometers from Vic-le-Comte, will go back to regular operation with the go back to paintings of all the staff, until the start of labor at the future printing press.

The successive delays of this undertaking, which should see the mild of day subsequent to the cutting-edge stationery of the principal financial institution, have also multiplied the invoice to extra than 250 million euros, in opposition to around two hundred million euros inside the estimate on the end of 2016.

This “huge funding” for the bank need to allow “the manufacture of banknotes on the exceptional cost”, in keeping with her. When the assignment is finished in 2026, France have to have “the most modern, efficient and ecological public banknote production middle in Europe”, welcomes the Banque de France.

The cutting-edge printing works has been in operation considering 1917 in Chamalières on a domain which “has reached its limits of evolution”, specifies the Banque de France on its website.