Mondi is to relocate industrial bag production in France to its Bétheniville plant, cutting about 100 jobs.
Mondi said it plans to reorganise and possibly shut down its industrial bags plant in Saint-Jean-d’Illac in southwestern France. French trade union CGT confirmed in a press release that the closure could be carried out in a few months and would affect 104 people currently being employed at the plant.
Mondi said that the economy in France and Europe was undergoing major economic challenges which are expected to persist. Under these circumstances, the company needs to restructure its operating units in order to restore competitiveness in its Western European industrial sack units, Mondi explained. The CGT trade union however also blamed the mill’s problems on a lack of investments. Mondi explained that the French market remained important for its industrial bags business and that it would serve its customers through its plant in Bétheniville.
Mondi took over the Lembacel plant and three other units from Smurfit Kappa’s Lembacel subsidiary in 2010. In the same year Mondi closed down two of the Lembacel plants while Saint-Jean-d’Illac was restructured to focus on bags for the food, animal feed, chemicals and building materials industry and Bétheniville on bags for consumer an industrial goods
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