Question 31266 — industry

Summary

Mr. Jean-Luc Mélenchon draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery to the situation of the Mediterranean shipbuilding and industrial construction company. CNIM or naval and industrial construction of the Mediterranean is a company specializing in high technologies. Benefiting from a reputation for industrial excellence, it works for Ariane, the ITER nuclear research program, armaments with the missile launch tubes of French submarines and for renewable energy and waste treatment programs, all areas essential both to the industrial sovereignty of the country and to its ecological planning. However, on May 28, 2020, the Paris court approved a crisis exit protocol intended to save industrial activity. The origin of the company's difficulties is not linked to problems specific to its activity or to risky investments, but to the failure of an English partner in civil engineering for 16 years, itself a victim of the failure of a subcontractor. Following this announcement, the markets panicked and led to a collapse in the CNIM stock price, generating a cash requirement of 60 million euros (for a turnover of 588 million euros in 2019). Also in March 2020, in addition to the sale of the company's Parisian headquarters, a conciliation protocol was signed with a banking pool, the historic industrial shareholder Martin Gmbh and the State, making it possible to release a cash line of 400 million euros. The unions denounce, rightly, terrible concessions which call into question the future of the CNIM, namely the creation of four trusts taking over each pole of activity, and on which are transferred the company's securities. In the same sense, it is imposed “the search for buyers or investors to enable the backing or transfer of its activities to third parties”. Already three Chinese conglomerates are in the running according to trade union organizations. And while the Government deploys plans in favor of automobiles and aeronautics, the situation of the CNIMs has been completely ignored, even though At stake are the know-how and cutting-edge technologies essential to the future of the country. Furthermore, the breakage of this industrial tool would have terrible human and social consequences with nearly 2,600 employees, including nearly a thousand in La Seyne-sur-Mer, which experienced the tragedy of the closure of the shipyards 30 years ago. This territory would lose its last civilian industrial center. The State cannot remain a spectator in the face of what is possible dismantling of the CNIM and their industrial centers, as had already been done in sad memory for Alstom. Also, he proposes that the CNIMs could benefit from reinforced support from the State, like other economic sectors, or even if necessary, to allow the re-establishment of the company, a partial nationalization to avoid its dismantling. He wishes to know his position and his orientations on this subject.

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