Question 4216 — industry

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Mr. Jocelyn Dessigny draws the attention of the Minister to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for industry and energy, to the suspension by ArcelorMittal of investments supposed to decarbonize the last four blast furnaces in France. Indeed, if in 2024, the EU saw its production of crude steel increase for the first time since 2021, the volumes remain lower than those recorded in 2020, at the height of the health crisis. As for France, if it saw its production increase by 7.6% in 2024 to 10.76 million tonnes compared to 14 million gross tonnes in 2021, the figures for 2023 were very bad after a fire shut down a blast furnace for several months at ArcelorMittal in Dunkirk. For the boss of ArcelorMittal France, in a statement dated January 23, 2025, all the sites of Steel production in Europe is threatened with closure, which may explain ArcelorMittal's suspension of investments intended to decarbonize the last four blast furnaces in France. Furthermore, the excessively high cost of energy in Europe, despite a relative improvement for households, remains a very heavy burden for the French metallurgy industry, which consumes very much energy and unfairly competes with the economic dumping of China which is flooding the world with steel at very low prices. With much heavier tax burdens and which will not get better given France's debt, French steel will not be able to compete and will die. Finally, the third determining element lies in sluggish domestic demand due to a slowing economy. The looming crisis is violent. He asks her to pay close attention particularly on this risk of closure of the last blast furnaces in France and what measures it intends to take to prevent this looming closure.

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