Dickson invests in a second factory in the North with around XNUMX jobs

The future plant will be located in Hordain (North), in an existing building which is to be extended to 28.000 m³, with the end of work scheduled for 2022. "Ultimately, around a hundred jobs will be created on the site", indicated the group of 600 employees, specialist in awning fabrics, in a press release.

This new project, after the acquisition of a logistics site in Lesquin in 2012 and the construction of the Innovation Pole in 2017 in Wasquehal - Dickson's headquarters and main production site - aims to increase production capacity by 50% and "respond to the growing demand of customers for the production of exclusive fabrics ", adds the text.

Quoted by the group, the Minister of Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher, welcomed this new investment, which "in the difficult context of the health crisis, marks above all the recognition of the attractiveness of a territory and of the know-how. to make industrialists who are present there "and" illustrates the dynamism of the French textile industry ".

"The State services mobilized upstream, in the preparation of the file, to defend the candidacy of the Hordain site against another site located in Europe", for his part underlined the regional prefect, Michel Lalande.

The Hauts-de-France region, for its part, underlined that the financial aid it provided with the Agglomeration Community of Porte du Hainaut "played a decisive role in the establishment" of this site. The amount and form of this assistance will be specified at a future plenary session.