Emmanuel Macron lays the first stone of a shell powder factory. in Bergerac (Dordogne) The Head of State urged defense manufacturers to accelerate the transition to “war economy mode” “We have left for the long term to settle into a geopolitical, geostrategic change where defense industries will have an increasing role,” he said.
“The world we are talking about will not stop if tomorrow the war ends, because there is a massive rearmament of Russia and because you see everywhere in Europe military spending, orders increasing “, he insisted. The first stone laid by the president on the Eurenco site, the European leader in powders and explosives, should result in the opening in early 2025 of a new powder factory essential for propelling shells, capable of to produce 1,200 tonnes of powder per year. The Bergerac site, which had been producing since 1915, was dismantled in 2007 due to lack of sufficient orders.