Question 12615 — industry

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Mrs. Marine Hamelet alerts the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty of the urgency to react in order to save the Fiber Excellence factory in Saint-Gaudens in the Haute-Garonne department. The only French producer of marketable paper pulp, the group announced in September 2025 that it would stop its activity for 5 weeks from October 17, 2025. The stated objective was to preserve its cash flow to cope with the explosion in wood and energy costs. This decision amounted to putting 90% of its 275 employees on partial unemployment. With this shutdown, the entire local economy and subcontractors have been damaged, representing nearly 5,000 indirect jobs. However, despite the resumption of activity at the end of 2025, on January 22, 2026, it was announced that Fiber Excellence was threatened with liquidation within two months, putting into effect danger 5,000 direct and indirect jobs, with a risk of closure for, among others, the Saint-Gaudens site. This liquidation would undermine the entire wood industry and that of pulp and paper, already in difficulty in the country. In question, the increase of almost 50% in the price of wood since 2021 and an electricity purchase contract which the group considers unsuitable for the reality of costs and which would be half as remunerative as that from a competing site in Gardanne. Faced with the uncertainty and urgency of the situation, she questions him to find out, on the one hand, the concrete measures that he intends to quickly implement in order to preserve the factory's activity in the short and long term (in particular to revise the electricity purchase contract) and on the other hand, the action plan planned in the event of the elimination of these jobs.

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