The Jura eyewear manufacturer Henry Jullien finds an Italian buyer. In Dijon, the “Quai Moutarde” real estate program suspended due to asbestos in the ground. In the Stocamine case in Alsace, the State persists with landfilling. The Swiss Orma sets up in Doubs to manufacture professional furniture. Luxury and microtechnology have their license in Morteau (Doubs). Nancy launches her university hospital institute in inflammatory bowel diseases.
• The Jura eyewear manufacturer Henry Jullien finds an Italian buyer
Friday September 22, the eyewear manufacturer from Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) Henry Jullien was taken to the helm of the commercial court of this city by the Italian iVision Tech. This company of 150 employees (turnover of €7.8 million in 2022). was born three years ago from the purchase of the Safilo factory in Martignacco, near Udine, in the north-east of the country. In competition with another candidate, she won the bid for €150,000. The Henry Jullien house (16 employees, turnover of €1.4 million last year) was placed in receivership on July 20 following the failure of its owner, L’Amy Luxe. Created in 1921, it occupies a special place in high-end eyewear, due to the fact that its workshop is the only one in France to master the technique of double laminated gold. He also has his own brand, previously distributed by L’Amy Luxe. With this acquisition, iVision Tech adds “ to the BtoB production a finished product with a clear and established identity on the French market”, commented its leader Stefano Fulchir in a press release. It is therefore under this new Italian pavilion that Henry Jullien will participate in Silmo, the world optics fair, in Paris this weekend, from September 29 to October 2. E. Prompt
• In Dijon, the “Quai Moutarde” real estate program suspended due to asbestos in the ground
© Visuals by BGA / IDA+
The real estate program “Mustard Quay”awarded last summer to the Atelier d’architecture Brenac+Gonzalez & Associés (Paris), suffered a setback due to contamination of the ground by asbestos. The 22,000 m2 site, located on Quai Nicolas Rolin, housed the Amora factory until its demolition in 2010. “This summer, the developers carried out around a hundred core samples in the area, a significant portion of which turned out to contain asbestos, to depths of 3 meters”indicated François Rebsamen, mayor of Dijon and president of Dijon Métropole. “No traces of asbestos were detected in the air”, continued the councilor, excluding any health risk. The Local Public Company “Development of the Dijon urban area” (SPLAAD), owner of the site, will however quickly stabilize the area. A geotextile film will be positioned and covered with 20 cm of topsoil over the entire surface. These emergency works are estimated at between €200,000 and €300,000. As an immediate consequence of this discovery, the real estate program is suspended indefinitely. The winning project provided for the construction of around 300 housing units in several buildings. Considering themselves wronged, the town hall and SPLAAD commissioned the specialized Parisian law firm Huglo Lepage to investigate the responsibilities. The old Amora factory was dismantled in 2010, then 17,000 m3 of polluted soil were removed, replaced by concrete rubble from the demolition of the building. The company that operated, based in Sainte-Marie-de-la-Mer (Pyrénées-Orientales), has since been liquidated. A.Morel
In the Stocamine case in Alsace, the State persists in buryingWithout much surprise, the government confirmed last week its choice to contain the 42,000 tonnes of remaining waste from Stocamine in Wittelsheim (Haut-Rhin), through the Minister of Ecological Transition Christophe Béchu. Over the course of governments of all stripes, the State has systematically sided with the position of the MDPA, the former operator of the potash mines in which the underground storage center for hazardous waste was located in 1999 before stopping. three years later, victim of a fire. And as time goes by, the argument according to which an operation to remove materials from unexploited galleries would be more and more risky has gained in relevance. This is to the great disappointment and even anger of most local elected officials and environmental associations, who fear long-term contamination of the water table. The legal battle continues and subject to its outcome, the timetable for the containment works aims for their completion in 2027. This will involve specifying the costs which are the subject of various and varied evaluations, the most reliable to date comes from the Bureau of Geological and Mining Research (BRGM) for around €90 million. Mr. Walnut
• The Swiss Orma sets up in Doubs to manufacture professional furniture
In Amancey, Orma plans to produce workbenches intended for Swiss watchmaking.© DR
Last July, the Bourquin Décolletage building in Amancey (Doubs) was sold by the Mantion group, owner of the site whose activity it had repatriated to Besançon in 2019. These 3,000 m2 industrial premises were purchased by the company Switzerland Orma (40 employees, turnover not communicated). Founded in 1948 near Neuchâtel, this company specializes in the design of work spaces. It designs office furniture and, for around ten years, workbenches for the precision industry, in particular Swiss watchmaking. Orma wants to manufacture this type of professional furniture in Amancey. Production should start by early 2024 with around twenty employees. Twelve of them had already been employed since 2020 in an assembly unit in the Jura, first in Vadans then in Bans. “ We wanted to get closer to our main suppliers of carpentry, metalwork and specific parts for sliding doors, all of which are located within a 50 km radius”explains Benjamin Leuenberger, president of Orma Swiss. The manager remains very Swiss discreet about the amount of his investment in Doubs. E. Prompt
• Luxury and microtechnology have their license in Morteau (Doubs)
Unique in France, the professional license “luxury and microtechnology” started last week at the Edgar-Faure high school in Morteau (Doubs) with an initial class of nine students. It is set up by the Cnam (national conservatory of arts and crafts) as part of the courses of its Design and Improvement of Processes and Industrial Processes (CAPPI) degree. It must meet the growing labor needs of a sector in Burgundy-Franche-Comté with 269 companies and 12,000 employees., in a broad sense including micromechanics, luxury-watchmaking-leather goods, medical devices and aeronautics. The course is open to students with a bac + 2 in microtechnology, industrial product design, design of product production processes and automatic systems, all diplomas awarded in different establishments in Franche-Comté. It lasts 455 hours over a year, alternating between a training center (one week per month) and internships in companies (three months), with a common CAPPI core then 240 hours specific to luxury and microtechnology. Mr. Walnut
• Nancy launches her university hospital institute in the inflammatory bowel diseases
The institute benefits from an investment of €10 million with a view to establishing itself on the Nancy CHRU site in Brabois. © CHRU de Nancy/Léna Frustin
Great start for the Nancy University Hospital Institute (IHU) Infiny. This establishment specializing in chronic inflammatory bowel diseases, the best known of which, Crohn’s disease, affects 300,000 people in France, organized its launch day at the beginning of September in Nancy. The project carried out jointly by the University of Lorraine, the CHRU (regional university hospital center), Inserm and the Greater Nancy metropolis was awarded last May, alongside eleven other initiatives, the IHU label, a distinction awarded in France to some world-class centers of excellence. Led by Professor Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, gastroenterologist, the IHU Lorraine benefits from an investment of €10 million as part of the Future Investment Program, an envelope which will allow it to establish itself on the Nancy CHRU site (Meurthe-et-Moselle) on the Brabois plateau. This is the second university hospital institute in the Grand Est after that of Strasbourg oriented around image-guided surgery. France now has 18 IHUs, establishments based on interdisciplinarity and aimed at accelerating health innovation. P. Bohlinger
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