After Vancorex, Arkema: Trinque use again in the Valley of Chemistry near Grenoble

The fear of a domino effect is confirmed on the chemical platforms of the Grenoble agglomeration. It all started in the summer of 2024 with the announcement of the receivership of Vancorex in Pont-de-Claix (Isère), the only buyer of which proposes to keep only fifty employees out of the 450 that the company has . However, this company produces an essential salt for local chemical industries such as Arkema, located in Jarrie (Isère).

After weeks of strike at Vancorex and the delivery stop, Arkema decided last week that she would end her chlorine production. This will delete 154 positions by the end of 2025, on a site which today has 344.

“Behind these cuts, the whole economic fabric is weakened. We are talking about 5,000 locally threatened jobs, ”alerts Raphaël Guerrero, mayor of Jarrie. The manager of the restaurant Le Verre, Céline Bessac, worries: “The number of covers has already been divided by two for lunch with the strike … We are afraid for the rest. »»

“The dissatisfaction of employees had to be expressed”

Among the employees of Arkema, anger rises, so much so that during the CSE which was held in the premises of Jarrie on January 23, some of them entered the meeting room, reversing furniture and obliging the leaders To start from the site.