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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32.9 - Manufacturing N.E.C.
No information on job gains number available
Announcement Date
11 June 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2021
Foreseen end date
11 June 2022
Description
Protecop, a French SME specializing in ballistic protection, relocated part of its production from Tunisia to Bernay, Eure, France in 2022. Established four decades ago, this family-owned company established a factory in Tunisia almost a decade ago employing 150 out of its 200 workers. It implemented this relocation with the support of a half-million euro grant from the French government's Recovery Plan. The primary objective is to secure the supply chain for strategic products. In addition to receiving support from the Recovery Plan, Protecop made 600,000 euros of investment in R&D in 2021, recently providing the facility with a ballistic test bench for on-site testing of the bullet resistance of its equipment.
Eurofound (2022), Protecop, Reshoring in France, factsheet number 284, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/284.
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