The Origami project carried out by former employees of the Bègles paper mill will not be able to coexist with that of the buyer Global Hygiène.
Due to a lack of space and financial support, this project, which provided for the recycling of old paper, in particular for the thermal insulation of buildings, has been definitively discarded.
Global Hygiène will be the owner in the summer of 2022 for the commissioning of the converted plant in the summer of 2023.
They will have to turn the page.
The Origami project, carried out by former employees of the Bègles paper mill closed by the Etex group on March 31, 2021, will not take place.
He planned to recycle 100,000 tons of waste paper and recover them in biosourced materials, in particular for the insulation of buildings.
A project "not completely successful" for the president (PS) of the Region Alain Rousset, who recalled that the choice was up to Etex.
It also lacked financial means, points out Stéphane Delpeyrat, vice-president of Bordeaux Métropole.
The association behind the Origami project had tried to propose sharing the site, by relocating part of its storage, but this was not accepted.
“Cohabitation has been studied, and even by pushing the walls, it is not possible.
We welcomed the project, but unfortunately Origami, on this site, stops there”, adds Clément Rossignol Puech, the mayor (EELV) of Bègles.
The idea of a circular recovery of waste is therefore buried at the same time as the Origami project, for the moment at least.
New needs, new processes
It is the Global Hygiene group that the Etex group has chosen as buyer. A specialist in single-use hygiene consumables for hospitals and companies, the company will acquire the site this summer for an opening after works estimated in the summer of 2023. A strategic location for the group since there is no factory of this type in the South West. The site will be included in a new district, the development of which is managed by the Euratlantique establishment.
The site will be converted to adapt to the activity of the new buyer. “The recycling of waste paper that we need for hygiene is in fact made up of superior grade paper,” explains Luc Brami. The product we obtain must be white, so this creates certain constraints and we cannot reuse exactly the same papers as those on the site. In addition, our processing volume will be lower, 50,000 instead of 100,000 tonnes previously”. The goal is to go from a paper of 300 grams per m2 to 15 grams per m2, and to do this, we must completely change the processes.
The prefecture indicates that two thirds of former Etex employees have found a solution after their dismissal and that support continues for those who remain.
It is not yet known whether some of the 17 employees left behind after the closure of Etex could possibly be recruited by Global Hygiene.
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