Sailly-lez-Cambrai Cereplas renounces breast implants, 43 layoffs

Since the recall of breast implants manufactured by Cereplas, the company has entered a zone of turbulence. Receivership, abandonment of prostheses, layoffs ... Cereplas reduces the wing, changes name provillois returned to his premises.


It looks like a step backwards. "Sense of a huge mess," at least for Valerie Leleu, the communications manager Cereplas " was twenty years of work behind us, so it is not starting from zero. " But a return to fundamentals as the company refocused on health as well as textile silicone dressings.

Saline implants. "A stopped definitively" activity This activity yet accounted for about two thirds of the turnover of the company has embarked on implants there a few years. A profitable industry requires hiring staff and moving into a huge building on Actipôle area Sailly-lez-Cambrai.

But the decision of the Security Agency of Medicines and Health Products to order the cessation of the manufacture of prostheses has come to stop this development . A final judgment. Into receivership, Cereplas was bought by its current owner David Leleu through its holding Plascere (followers of slang understand the allusion), before the Commercial Court of Douai. A partial recovery which results 43 layoffs.

New hires?

Only 54 people retain their positions in the company , a sacred bleeding when you know that earlier this year the company employed about 120 employees. A greatly reduced wing meant a return to Proville. After leaving them there for nearly four years, Cereplas returned to his old premises. And company management to discuss a name change: Cerecare, history definitively turn the page breast implants
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" We want to redevelop our textile business to the maximum , says Valerie Leleu, with lots of projects to fruition . "Projects that could lead to new hires. On what schedule? No timetable has been given us.
JÉRÉMY LEMAIRE