This is the double face of the health crisis: if it weakens businesses, it also serves as a spur to their modernization.
This is evidenced by the strong demand for investment support measures put in place as part of the recovery plan.
“Almost 20% of industrial companies working in France - nearly 6,000 out of 34,000 - have submitted files.
This means that they have investment projects.
These are nuggets that can lead others "
, rejoices Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister Delegate, in charge of Industry, who sees in it a sign
" of a certain resilience of the French industrial fabric "
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It is still too early to know which way the balance will tip, between the factors unfavorable to investment - economic uncertainties, cash flow pressures - and the favorable factors - the need to digitize, or even to rethink the production chain.
Nonetheless, the specter of a collapse in industrial investment seems to be receding.
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