Heuliez in difficulty, the State takes its distances

Cerizay plant employees, that esp felt that six months of protection obtained by the final beneficiary, industry Baelen Gaillard (BGI), would be enough to save their working tools, d sang the approach of the date. "We are not s rassur. There is the risk of liquidation pure and simple", Xavier has HPLC d pebbles, d l gu CFDT.

None of the potential buyers - the Spanish industrial group Cosmos, the German consultant Matthias Bittner, and Fran ais L otard Christian - has deposited any folder last Wednesday, when CL Turo offers.

Cosmos, which seemed best plac, refuses to participate without an assurance that the German Volkswagen car manufacturer has chosen definitively d Heuliez a contract for the supply of pi these spare repr smelling to several tens of millions of euros a year. Heuliez would be in a good position, but Volkswagen makes play competition and must make its decision only after d, October 15.

"NOT BE ALLOW TO DROP HEULIEZ"

Its t c r a vot Regional Council of Poitou-Charente, on September 13 in favour of the creation of a company of mixed economy (SEM), whose purpose will be to support the company, j d e sauv by region in 2009 over time r an entrance at the height of the capital city of 5 million euros and more then a refundable deposit of 2.8 million.

"" "There is the right to leave Heuliez, has HPLC d reading the pr r regional Chairman S real goal."Only the region r can keep Heuliez pending a possible control flow. There is a transitional context am swim. It still pending".

This project, which would be the 650,000 euros of capital assur s 85% by public funds, you may not see the day that with the input bus the remaining 15%, will adjust ment regulatory r. "The SEM could secure 20: 30 jobs." If we can continue the current activity, can keep other hundred hundred and fifty. In two hundred and ninety, a social plan is therefore inevitable, "adds the d l gu CFDT."

HEULIEZ HAS NO FUTURE FOR MONTEBOURG

Minister of productive recovery, Arnaud Montebourg has shown much less enthusiastic about the future of Heuliez. There claim, on Monday, that public money had j' t injected into the company.

[The State] are not l to put scarce money on companies that don't have a future. It has however become slightly. In the case of Heuliez, seek solutions with providers of orders, commands, will be very easy. "Gold, I suffer from today is that, not with this company, find and secure a future with the commands".

There truck the option of nationalisation, which was t e voqu to the furnaces of ArcelorMittal Florange, because this last "was a company that guarantees the divorce".