While the battery sector has to happen with us, Blue Solutions is cutting 55 jobs at its battery plant in Boucherville and ceasing battery production, he was told The newspaper.
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“We have terminated our manufacturing activities at the Boucherville facility,” Alain Vallée, general manager of Blue Solutions Canada, confirmed to the Journal on Wednesday.
More than 46 of the 55 workers are union members affiliated with Unifor Quebec.
Blue Solutions Canada manufactures full-solid lithium-metal-polymer electric batteries for buses in France and Germany.
In total, more than 110 employees will continue their work in research and development at the plant, which remains in recruitment mode in its innovative area.
order declines
In the Journal, Alain Vallée explains that the price of lithium has recently quintupled and that of phosphate has tripled.
“The cost price of our battery has increased by 50%, which has melted our order books,” emphasizes the manager.
Blue Solutions was also affected by the war in Ukraine, where its bus frames came from.
“Commodity supplies have suffered from the impact of COVID-19 and the Russian-Ukrainian conflict,” he concluded.