Question 20109 — employment and activity

Summary

Mr. Bernard Reynès alerts the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to the risk of rapid disappearance of 260 jobs at the company SIRAP France, a company specializing in the manufacture of plastic packaging following the initiatives launched as part of the circular economy roadmap and the commitments made by the Government consisting of declaring as problematic and useless products to expanded polystyrene base that this company manufactures. Sirap France is a leading company on the food packaging market in France, active since 1994 with three production plants (Noves, Remoulins, Tarascon), a turnover of 60 million euros and 260 employees. It is part of a group, Sirap, created in 1960 which is today one of the most recognized producers of packaging for fresh products in Europe (with 13 factories, in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Poland and Hungary), with a turnover of 275 million euros. Expanded polystyrene is the lightest packaging solution available on the market, consisting of 95% air and 5% polymer. In the food packaging sector, this also translates into a reduction in the cost of the product for the benefit of the end consumer. Like the also demonstrate applications in high performance sectors such as military, nautical, aeronautical or wind power applications, the expansion guarantees, in addition to lightness, high mechanical and insulation performance. Expanded polystyrene makes it possible to obtain unrivaled results in the field of preserving the quality of food and combating food waste. All residues of production (20% to 35% of the semi-finished product) are regularly recycled in the same production process, thus demonstrating that this operation is technically feasible. Improvement efforts are currently focused on improving the availability of post-consumer recycled polystyrene for food applications, which is still insufficient. This is why Sirap and its entire logistics chain are are launched into the study of closed-loop mechanical recycling solutions. Development projects led by players such as Total and Ineos in the field of chemical recycling are underway, and will make it possible to recover polystyrene and return it to the assimilable state of virgin raw material in the coming years under acceptable economic conditions. He asks her to reconsider the qualities environmental aspects of expanded polystyrene solutions with regard to the activity of Sirap France located in the country and employing 260 people and to give this company the possibility of being able to explore with institutional actors ways capable of supporting research allowing the preservation of jobs currently under threat.

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