Overview
- The commercial court in Lyon placed Aciéries de Bonpertuis into judicial liquidation on October 23, ending nearly 600 years of activity in Apprieu, Isère.
- Two takeover offers were examined and rejected by the court, and the furnaces have been definitively stopped with the site vacated.
- The closure eliminates 68 jobs at the plant, a site that once employed around 500 workers in the 1970s.
- Owner Groupe Forlam attributes the collapse to sharply higher energy and input prices that the company could not absorb.
- The protected 1859 brick chimney, listed as a Monument historique, underscores both the site’s heritage value and the constraints facing any reuse as unions press authorities for action.