The manufacturer of cosmetic tubes Plastube closes his granby factory, which will make the livelihood lose a hundred workers.
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“We went on vacation with a quiet spirit and we come back to find ourselves unemployed. We are all in shock, ”laments the president of the union, Geneviève Carter, for the use of Plastube for 23 years.
“It is obnoxious to put his employees at the door overnight”, plagues the president of the Federation of the manufacturing industry-CSN, Kevin Gagnon.
In early August, the Plastube factory declared bankruptcy. She dragged debts of more than $ 12 million, including $ 2.4 million in Investissement Québec (IQ), according to documents consulted by The newspaper.
Eight years ago, the Minister of the Economy of the time, Dominique Anglade, had lent $ 1.7 million to the Plastube to help her buy $ 11 million new equipment.
In Granby, the 70,000 square feet factory, the equivalent of a football field, was well known since its foundation in 1963.
You could produce 100,000 tubes per year. Giants like Avon and Unilever have already been customers.
Examples of manufactured products
Illustration from Plastube website
Several of its employees have been working in the same place for several decades.
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About sixty employees were unionized from the CSN and others were temporary foreign workers (TET).
What shocks them is that they learned the news only the day before, Sunday evening.
According to the Raymond Chabot controller, the value of the assets amounts to more than $ 6 million.
This includes extrusion lines, printers, equipment, tools and office furniture.
The offers must be made before September 4.