A Michelin 'solution' is not a new job. At Cholet, 123 of the 465 durable solutions were retirements, and the 60.2% quoted in May 2026 also counts internal moves and age-related departures.
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Fonderie de Bretagne liquidation 2026: top 10 closures
Michelin's Cholet closure took 955 jobs, more than 1% of all work in its employment zone and four times the weight of Fonderie de Bretagne in Lorient, and a year later only 49% of the staff had a durable solution.
- No. 1: Michelin Cholet closure
- 10 places
- 7 AIs
01Final list
7 AIs each built their own list of ten independently. Here is one result that is easy to check: every place has a reason, a source, and the list of AIs that included it.
A bright badge means this AI put the entry on its list. A dim badge means it did not.
- 1
Michelin Cholet closure
955 jobs, or 1.08% of the 88,188 jobs in the Cholet zone, the heaviest local hit. A year later 49% had a durable solution, and a quarter of those were retirements.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, DeepSeek.In their lists: Claude: 1 · ChatGPT: 1 · Meta: 1 · Grok: 1 · Gemini: 2 · MiMo: 1 · DeepSeek: see list
What each AI noted 7
- Claudeplace 1
955 jobs in a mid-sized Maine-et-Loire town, and only 49% had a durable solution a year later, a quarter of them through retirement.
- ChatGPTplace 1
Its 955 workers equalled 1.08% of all jobs in the Cholet employment zone; 19 expressions of interest in the site had produced no takeover offer by March 2025.
- Metaplace 1
955 jobs = 1.36% of Cholet zone's 70,000 jobs, biggest tyre closure in 135-year-old group
- Grokplace 1
947 jobs in a zone of 87,169, and the repair plan still has about 400 jobs to find.
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 2
The largest single factory shutdown in France's 2024–2026 wave, erasing nearly 1,000 tire-building jobs in an industrial bastion where it represented over 1.2% of all local employment.
- MiMoplace 1
955 jobs — the single biggest French auto-supplier closure of the cycle, and Michelin's 5th–6th French plant shutdown in 20 years.
- DeepSeek
Named differently in its own list: open the full list.
see list
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Allgaier France closure, Faulquemont (Moselle)
180–200 jobs, or 0.48–0.54% of the 37,346 jobs in the Saint-Avold zone, twice Lorient's weight. The last investor walked away at the end of 2024.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, DeepSeek.In their lists: Claude: 7 · ChatGPT: 3 · Meta: 9 · Grok: 4 · Gemini: 3 · MiMo: 7 · DeepSeek: 4
What each AI noted 7
- Claudeplace 7
Its German parent went insolvent, and the last investor had already withdrawn by the end of 2024, leaving 180–200 jobs without a buyer.
Source ↗ - ChatGPTplace 3
Two hundred planned losses amount to 0.54% of jobs in the Saint-Avold zone; Eurofound reported a takeover as the remaining route to keeping the plant.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 9
∼140 jobs – German pressing group in insolvency June 2023, French SAS Faulquemont in Uhingen group restructuring
- Grokplace 4
The last investor quit at the end of 2024; the order book runs out in spring 2026.
- Geminiplace 3
When insolvency struck its German parent, this Moselle stamping plant was liquidated with 190 jobs lost in a former mining basin that has struggled for decades to create replacement manufacturing.
- MiMoplace 7
In receivership since 2023 and told to find a buyer before March 2026 — Moselle could lose up to 200 metalworking jobs.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 4
In a zone d'emploi of 4,569 jobs, the loss of 200 at one plant equals 4.4% of the entire local labour market.
Source ↗
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Forvia Messei closure (Orne)
123 jobs (109 permanent), or 0.30–0.34% of the Flers zone's 36,000. Unusually, 76% of the permanent staff already had a solution by October 2026.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, DeepSeek.In their lists: Claude: 9 · ChatGPT: 5 · Meta: 7 · Grok: 9 · Gemini: 4 · MiMo: 10 · DeepSeek: 5
What each AI noted 7
- Claudeplace 9
Workers laid coffins outside the plant. 109 permanent jobs end, with part of the work moving to Allenjoie in Doubs.
Source ↗ - ChatGPTplace 5
This small factory's 123 planned cuts are 0.34% of jobs in the Flers zone, far more locally concentrated than many larger headline cuts.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 7
109 jobs – exhaust pots for thermal cars, 83% transferred to Allenjoie Doubs, closes Dec 2026
- Grokplace 9
76% of the 109 permanent staff had a landing, and the town is buying the site for €15.
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 4
An exhaust systems plant shuttered in an isolated Normandy valley with 114 jobs cut as supplier giant Forvia shifted production to low-cost plants in Eastern Europe.
- MiMoplace 10
An Orne exhaust-plant closure where the headline number itself is disputed: 109 employees in the press, 123 jobs in Eurofound's factsheet.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 5
Forvia asked €2.9 million for the 11-hectare site; Flers Agglo bought it for €15 to stop a cut-price sell-off.
Source ↗
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MAHLE-Behr Hambach closure (Moselle)
186 jobs, or 0.43% of the Sarreguemines zone. Only one source computes this share, so treat it as an estimate. The machinery goes to Poland and Czechia.
Included it: ChatGPT, Grok, DeepSeek. Did not include: Claude, Meta, Gemini, MiMo.In their lists: ChatGPT: 4 · Grok: 8 · DeepSeek: 8
What each AI noted 3
- ChatGPTplace 4
The plan affects 186 people while machinery is to move to Poland and Czechia, making this a particularly clear cross-border shift.
Source ↗ - Grokplace 8
186 jobs at Hambach, in a Moselle year that is also taking Allgaier.
- DeepSeekplace 8
186 jobs in a Moselle industrial basin already losing NovAsco and Allgaier in the same 18-month window.
Source ↗
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Michelin Vannes closure (Morbihan)
299 jobs, or 0.31% of the Vannes zone. It has the weakest Michelin outcome: 43% had a durable solution after a year, and 151 of 299 after 18 months.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, DeepSeek. Did not include: MiMo.In their lists: Claude: 4 · ChatGPT: 6 · Meta: 4 · Grok: 3 · Gemini: 6 · DeepSeek: 2
What each AI noted 6
- Claudeplace 4
299 jobs, the smallest Michelin site, and 43% had a durable solution after a year, the lowest of the two.
- ChatGPTplace 6
The 299-person cable plant was paired with Cholet in the headline count, but its own employment zone and search for a new user tell a separate story.
- Metaplace 4
299 jobs making steel cables for truck tyres, same day as Cholet – 1,254 total, western France hit twice
- Grokplace 3
Eighteen months on, 151 of 299 had any way out, and 41 of those were age exits.
- Geminiplace 6
Producing steel cord reinforcement for truck tires, Vannes' closure in early 2026 eliminated 299 high-wage industrial jobs in an area increasingly dominated by tourism and services.
- DeepSeekplace 2
1,254 jobs cut across two plants while Michelin posted record profits of €1.98 billion and paid its highest-ever dividend the same year.
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Fonderie de Bretagne liquidation (Caudan, Lorient)
244 jobs, only 0.26% of the Lorient zone's 92,495: a blow to a trade more than to the local job market. A Dutch buyer pulled out before the 15 October liquidation.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, DeepSeek.In their lists: Claude: 2 · ChatGPT: 2 · Meta: 3 · Grok: 2 · Gemini: 1 · MiMo: 6 · DeepSeek: 1
What each AI noted 7
- Claudeplace 2
Renault built it in 1966. Liquidated on 15 Oct 2026 after a 2025 takeover that promised 240 jobs and €15M of investment, 244 jobs.
- ChatGPTplace 2
A 2025 takeover was hailed as saving 266 jobs; today's liquidation leaves 244 workers facing dismissal.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 3
244 jobs, 60-year-old Renault-born foundry liquidated 15 Oct 2026 after Europlasma €15m pledge partially paid and fire Jan 2026
Source ↗ - Grokplace 2
A Dutch buyer walked away this week; 244 jobs go in a labour market of 92,495.
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 1
Founded by Renault in 1966 and repeatedly rescued by the state and Europlasma, the 60-year-old Caudan foundry was liquidated on October 15, 2026 after a fire and vanishing automotive casting orders.
Source ↗ - MiMoplace 6
60 years after Renault founded it, 244 jobs were wiped out in one court sitting — the case people search for as "fonderie de bretagne liquidation".
- DeepSeekplace 1
A Dutch industrialist walked away after Renault refused to guarantee volumes; the 60-year-old foundry that once cast parts for the Renault 4 is liquidated with 244 jobs.
Source ↗
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Bosch Mondeville closure (near Caen)
400–413 jobs, only 0.18% of the large Caen zone. Two buyers, Mutares and Telma, quit in 2024, and about half the staff leave through early retirement.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, DeepSeek.In their lists: Claude: 3 · ChatGPT: 7 · Meta: 2 · Grok: 6 · Gemini: 5 · MiMo: 2 · DeepSeek: 3
What each AI noted 7
- Claudeplace 3
413 workers and a 2024 sale that never happened: 80% went on strike against the two buyers management proposed.
Source ↗ - ChatGPTplace 7
Bosch rejected prospective buyers before the 413-person shutdown; a later Eurofound entry gives a different count for the same closure.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 2
413 jobs lost in Normandy plant voted best factory France 2018, closes June 2026 with zero buyer
Source ↗ - Grokplace 6
Two buyers quit in 2024; about half of 400 leave through early retirement, not a new job.
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 5
Once celebrated as France's 'Factory of the Year' for automotive electronics, Mondeville closed definitively on June 30, 2026 after two successive buyout prospects collapsed.
- MiMoplace 2
413 workers kept the plant alive two extra years looking for a buyer; when none came, the official closure fell on 9 July 2024.
- DeepSeekplace 3
400 workers left in June 2026, half on early retirement; the 12-hectare site was bought by a public brownfield developer within weeks.
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Valeo La Suze-sur-Sarthe closure
270 jobs, or 0.18% of the Le Mans zone. Only one source computes this share, so treat it as an estimate. A buyer search found no taker, and production staff were gone by June 2025.
Included it: ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini. Did not include: Claude, Grok, MiMo, DeepSeek.In their lists: ChatGPT: 8 · Meta: 6 · Gemini: 8
What each AI noted 3
- ChatGPTplace 8
A search for buyers preceded the shutdown, yet a later collective agreement says the site had no production workforce from June 2025.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 6
868-1,000 jobs across 3 sites – Valeo cuts 1,150 white-collar globally then closes 2 French plants November 2024
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 8
Valeo put this 270-worker thermal management plant up for sale in 2024, but with European EV production stalling, zero buyers stepped forward to take over the site.
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MA France Aulnay-sous-Bois liquidation
280 permanent plus 120 temporary jobs: 0.11% of the Roissy zone, or 0.08% without the temps. Liquidated in May 2024 with no bids; production went to Turkey.
Included it: ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini. Did not include: Claude, Grok, MiMo, DeepSeek.In their lists: ChatGPT: 9 · Meta: 5 · Gemini: 9
What each AI noted 3
- ChatGPTplace 9
Its main customer supplied 80% of revenue; the closure affected 280 permanent workers and 120 temporary workers, with production intended for Turkey.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 5
280 jobs plus 140 interim – last car plant of Seine-Saint-Denis liquidated 13 May 2024 after Stellantis dispute
- Geminiplace 9
The last surviving car-body stamping supplier on the historic PSA Aulnay grounds was forced into immediate liquidation in May 2024 when Stellantis pulled back production orders.
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Lisi Automotive Puiseux-Pontoise closure
About 135 jobs, 0.065% of the Cergy-Vexin zone, the lightest local weight here. By the end of May 2026 only 9 workers had been placed.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Meta, Gemini.In their lists: Claude: 10 · ChatGPT: 10 · Grok: 10 · MiMo: 9 · DeepSeek: 6
What each AI noted 5
- Claudeplace 10
135 of 153 posts cut, with Lisi blaming a 20–25% price gap with competitors.
Source ↗ - ChatGPTplace 10
The local percentage is small, but Eurofound names three possible destinations for the work: Hungary, Germany and Morocco.
Source ↗ - Grokplace 10
By the end of May, 9 of about 135 had been placed; the clips move to Morocco and Germany.
- MiMoplace 9
Production left for Morocco and Germany — 135 of 153 CDI jobs deleted, 18 sales jobs moved 10 km away.
- DeepSeekplace 6
135 jobs moved to Morocco and Germany while the group posted €1.7 billion turnover and €56 million net profit.
Source ↗
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02Worth knowing
What the AIs noticed while building the list.
Nationally, 43% of workers who entered the CSP in spring 2022 had a durable job within 12 months, and 7 in 10 within two years. Of 2024 entrants, 56% were still registered with France Travail a year later.
Three large closures are missing from this list only because no local weight has been published for them: Bosch Yzeure (265), Dumarey Strasbourg (320 after an earlier 234) and Dumarey Andrézieux-Bouthéon (266).
The answers disagree on the size of the Cholet zone: 51,667, 70,000, 78,000, 87,169 or 88,188 jobs. Only the last two match INSEE's own pages.
03How we counted
In plain words, no formulas.
1The question
Top 10 French Factory Closures of 2024–2026: Jobs Lost, Weight on the Local Job Market, and How Many Workers Found New Work
2Why this topic
It ranks each closure by how hard it hits its own town and how many workers found new jobs, not just by the national headcount, and those numbers come from three different sources.
3Where it applies
France, industry and automotive supply chain, 2024–2026
4What we looked at
- Jobs cut at the site (Eurofound restructuring database)
- Jobs lost as a share of total employment in the site's local employment area (INSEE zones d'emploi)
- Share of laid-off workers in a new job 12 months later (France Travail CSP follow-up and DARES)
- Whether a serious buyer or takeover was on the table and then withdrew
- Eurofound European Restructuring Monitor — Announced job losses, closure dates and offshoring destinations for large restructuring events. These are announcements, not final dismissals.
- INSEE, jobs by zone d'emploi — Jobs located in each 2020 employment zone (2022–2023). The closure's jobs divided by the zone's jobs gives its local weight.
- Unédic, CSP follow-up — National share of workers on the CSP job-security contract who have a durable job within 12 months. No figure exists for individual factories.
- Company, court and government takeover records — Buyer interest, firm offers, withdrawals, liquidation rulings and new uses for the sites
5Who ranked
7 AIs, each building its own list of ten independently and naming a source for every place: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, DeepSeek.
6How the places were set
The same entry written differently by different AIs was counted as one. The more AIs put an entry on their list, and the higher they put it, the higher its place. "AI agreement" shows how many of the AIs had it on their own list. Sources are only those the AIs found themselves; nothing was added by hand.
04Each AI's own list
🇺🇸 Claude10 places · 1 notes
The same question, answered by Claude alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Michelin Cholet closure (2024–2026)
955 jobs in a mid-sized Maine-et-Loire town, and only 49% had a durable solution a year later, a quarter of them through retirement.
- 2Fonderie de Bretagne liquidation (Caudan/Lorient, 2026)
Renault built it in 1966. Liquidated on 15 Oct 2026 after a 2025 takeover that promised 240 jobs and €15M of investment, 244 jobs.
- 3Bosch Mondeville closure (near Caen, June 2026)
413 workers and a 2024 sale that never happened: 80% went on strike against the two buyers management proposed.
Source ↗ - 4Michelin Vannes closure (Morbihan, 2025–26)
299 jobs, the smallest Michelin site, and 43% had a durable solution after a year, the lowest of the two.
- 5Dumarey Powerglide Bouthéon (Andrézieux-Bouthéon, 2026)
A gearbox plant of 266 workers closed because a German partner stopped ordering.
Source ↗ - 6Bosch Yzeure closure (Allier, end 2026)
265 jobs in a small Allier area, closing 31 Dec 2026, the second Bosch closure in France in two years.
- 7Allgaier France closure (Faulquemont, Moselle, April 2026)
Its German parent went insolvent, and the last investor had already withdrawn by the end of 2024, leaving 180–200 jobs without a buyer.
Source ↗ - 8Sogefi Suspensions Douai closure (2026)
130 permanent jobs lost at a suspension-parts plant in the Nord, closing around 1 Aug 2026.
Source ↗ - 9Forvia Messei closure (Orne, 1 Dec 2026)
Workers laid coffins outside the plant. 109 permanent jobs end, with part of the work moving to Allenjoie in Doubs.
Source ↗ - 10Lisi Automotive Puiseux-Pontoise closure (Val-d'Oise, 2026)
135 of 153 posts cut, with Lisi blaming a 20–25% price gap with competitors.
Source ↗
What Claude noticed
The official re-employment benchmark is weak: the public CSP series shows 65% of entrants still registered a year later in the 2019–2020 cohort, against 53% before the crisis.
🇺🇸 ChatGPT10 places · 1 notes
The same question, answered by ChatGPT alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Michelin Cholet closure, 2024–2026
Its 955 workers equalled 1.08% of all jobs in the Cholet employment zone; 19 expressions of interest in the site had produced no takeover offer by March 2025.
- 2Fonderie de Bretagne, Caudan liquidation, 2026
A 2025 takeover was hailed as saving 266 jobs; today's liquidation leaves 244 workers facing dismissal.
Source ↗ - 3Allgaier Faulquemont closure, 2026
Two hundred planned losses amount to 0.54% of jobs in the Saint-Avold zone; Eurofound reported a takeover as the remaining route to keeping the plant.
Source ↗ - 4Mahle-Behr Hambach closure, 2026
The plan affects 186 people while machinery is to move to Poland and Czechia, making this a particularly clear cross-border shift.
Source ↗ - 5Forvia Messei closure, 2025–2026
This small factory's 123 planned cuts are 0.34% of jobs in the Flers zone, far more locally concentrated than many larger headline cuts.
Source ↗ - 6Michelin Vannes closure, 2024–2026
The 299-person cable plant was paired with Cholet in the headline count, but its own employment zone and search for a new user tell a separate story.
- 7Bosch Mondeville closure, 2024–2026
Bosch rejected prospective buyers before the 413-person shutdown; a later Eurofound entry gives a different count for the same closure.
Source ↗ - 8Valeo La Suze-sur-Sarthe closure, 2025
A search for buyers preceded the shutdown, yet a later collective agreement says the site had no production workforce from June 2025.
Source ↗ - 9MA France Aulnay-sous-Bois liquidation, 2024
Its main customer supplied 80% of revenue; the closure affected 280 permanent workers and 120 temporary workers, with production intended for Turkey.
Source ↗ - 10Lisi Automotive Puiseux-Pontoise closure, 2026
The local percentage is small, but Eurofound names three possible destinations for the work: Hungary, Germany and Morocco.
Source ↗
What ChatGPT noticed
Caudan shows why a signed rescue deserves continued scrutiny: the state reported 266 jobs preserved by Europlasma in 2025, before liquidation affected 244 in 2026.
🇺🇸 Meta10 places · 1 notes
The same question, answered by Meta alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Michelin Cholet (Maine-et-Loire) 2024-2026
955 jobs = 1.36% of Cholet zone's 70,000 jobs, biggest tyre closure in 135-year-old group
- 2Bosch Mondeville (Calvados) 2024-2026
413 jobs lost in Normandy plant voted best factory France 2018, closes June 2026 with zero buyer
Source ↗ - 3Fonderie de Bretagne Caudan (Morbihan) 2026
244 jobs, 60-year-old Renault-born foundry liquidated 15 Oct 2026 after Europlasma €15m pledge partially paid and fire Jan 2026
Source ↗ - 4Michelin Vannes (Morbihan) 2024-2026
299 jobs making steel cables for truck tyres, same day as Cholet – 1,254 total, western France hit twice
- 5MA France Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) 2024
280 jobs plus 140 interim – last car plant of Seine-Saint-Denis liquidated 13 May 2024 after Stellantis dispute
- 6Valeo – La Verriere, Isle-d'Abeau, La Suze-sur-Sarthe 2024-2025
868-1,000 jobs across 3 sites – Valeo cuts 1,150 white-collar globally then closes 2 French plants November 2024
Source ↗ - 7Forvia Messei (Orne) 2024-2026
109 jobs – exhaust pots for thermal cars, 83% transferred to Allenjoie Doubs, closes Dec 2026
- 8Bosch Marignier (Haute-Savoie) 2024
153 jobs – second Bosch France closure after Mondeville, listed on Florange platform
Source ↗ - 9Allgaier Faulquemont (Moselle) 2023-2024
∼140 jobs – German pressing group in insolvency June 2023, French SAS Faulquemont in Uhingen group restructuring
- 10Lisi Automotive Nomel La Ferte-Fresnel (Orne) 2024-2025
188 jobs sold as ZB Nomel – refocus on high value fasteners, washers/nuts purchase maintained
What Meta noticed
Bosch Mondeville voted best factory France 2018 by Industrie du Futur jury, yet closes June 2026 as 413 jobs – illustrates shift from TV assembly (1960s) to auto electronics to IoT showcase to closure
🇺🇸 Grok10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by Grok alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Michelin Cholet closure 2025
947 jobs in a zone of 87,169, and the repair plan still has about 400 jobs to find.
Source ↗ - 2Fonderie de Bretagne liquidation 2026
A Dutch buyer walked away this week; 244 jobs go in a labour market of 92,495.
Source ↗ - 3Michelin Vannes closure 2025
Eighteen months on, 151 of 299 had any way out, and 41 of those were age exits.
- 4Allgaier Faulquemont closure 2026
The last investor quit at the end of 2024; the order book runs out in spring 2026.
- 5Bosch Yzeure closure 2026
265 jobs, and the ESP work is going back to Germany, not to a cheaper country.
- 6Bosch Mondeville closure 2026
Two buyers quit in 2024; about half of 400 leave through early retirement, not a new job.
Source ↗ - 7Dumarey Powerglide Strasbourg closure 2026
ZF stopped the gearboxes; 248 left first, and the last 320 are due out by the end of 2026.
- 8MAHLE Hambach closure 2026
186 jobs at Hambach, in a Moselle year that is also taking Allgaier.
- 9Forvia Messei closure 2026
76% of the 109 permanent staff had a landing, and the town is buying the site for €15.
Source ↗ - 10Lisi Automotive Puiseux-Pontoise closure 2026
By the end of May, 9 of about 135 had been placed; the clips move to Morocco and Germany.
What Grok noticed
Michelin's November 2025 figure, 587 of 1,246 people 'settled' at Cholet and Vannes, mixes retirement, a move to another Michelin plant, and training with a new employer. Reading it as a new-job rate overstates how many found work.
Forvia asked €2.9 million for the Messei site. The agglomeration is buying it for €15, while 76% of the 109 permanent staff already had a solution and 83% of the work stays in France, at Allenjoie. A closed gate and a failed local labour market are not the same event.
🇺🇸 Gemini10 places · 1 notes
The same question, answered by Gemini alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Fonderie de Bretagne (Caudan / Lorient, 2026)
Founded by Renault in 1966 and repeatedly rescued by the state and Europlasma, the 60-year-old Caudan foundry was liquidated on October 15, 2026 after a fire and vanishing automotive casting orders.
Source ↗ - 2Michelin Cholet (Maine-et-Loire, 2024–2026)
The largest single factory shutdown in France's 2024–2026 wave, erasing nearly 1,000 tire-building jobs in an industrial bastion where it represented over 1.2% of all local employment.
- 3Allgaier France (Faulquemont, Moselle, 2024–2025)
When insolvency struck its German parent, this Moselle stamping plant was liquidated with 190 jobs lost in a former mining basin that has struggled for decades to create replacement manufacturing.
- 4Forvia Messei (Orne, 2024–2026)
An exhaust systems plant shuttered in an isolated Normandy valley with 114 jobs cut as supplier giant Forvia shifted production to low-cost plants in Eastern Europe.
- 5Bosch Mondeville (Calvados, 2024–2026)
Once celebrated as France's 'Factory of the Year' for automotive electronics, Mondeville closed definitively on June 30, 2026 after two successive buyout prospects collapsed.
- 6Michelin Vannes (Morbihan, 2024–2026)
Producing steel cord reinforcement for truck tires, Vannes' closure in early 2026 eliminated 299 high-wage industrial jobs in an area increasingly dominated by tourism and services.
- 7Dumarey Powerglide Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin, 2024–2026)
Formerly General Motors Strasbourg, the automatic gearbox manufacturer was driven into complete shutdown by 2026 with over 550 total jobs eliminated after losing its primary contract with ZF.
- 8Valeo La Suze-sur-Sarthe (Sarthe, 2024–2025)
Valeo put this 270-worker thermal management plant up for sale in 2024, but with European EV production stalling, zero buyers stepped forward to take over the site.
- 9MA France (Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, 2024)
The last surviving car-body stamping supplier on the historic PSA Aulnay grounds was forced into immediate liquidation in May 2024 when Stellantis pulled back production orders.
- 10Exide Technologies Lille (Nord, 2024–2025)
Operating for over a century in Lille, this 211-worker lead-acid battery plant fell victim to the automotive transition to lithium-ion and cheaper Mediterranean competitors.
What Gemini noticed
The Failure of Rescue Takeovers: Out of the major automotive and parts closures across France from 2024 to 2026, over 70% initiated formal buyer searches under the Loi Florange, but fewer than 10% resulted in sustained industrial takeovers, with financial rescues like Europlasma at Fonderie de Bretagne collapsing within 18 months.
🇨🇳 MiMo10 places · 3 notes
The same question, answered by MiMo alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Michelin Cholet 2024
955 jobs — the single biggest French auto-supplier closure of the cycle, and Michelin's 5th–6th French plant shutdown in 20 years.
- 2Bosch Mondeville 2024
413 workers kept the plant alive two extra years looking for a buyer; when none came, the official closure fell on 9 July 2024.
- 3Dumarey Powerglide Strasbourg 2026
320 jobs liquidated after a first plan had already taken 234 — a plant that lost its workforce twice.
Source ↗ - 4Dumarey Andrézieux-Bouthéon 2026
A second Dumarey gearbox plant, 266–270 jobs, targeted for closure before end-2026 — the same group, two French sites in one year.
- 5Bosch Yzeure 2026
265 jobs gone in Allier — Bosch now closing a second French site while Mondeville is still winding down.
Source ↗ - 6Fonderie de Bretagne liquidation 2026
60 years after Renault founded it, 244 jobs were wiped out in one court sitting — the case people search for as "fonderie de bretagne liquidation".
- 7Allgaier Faulquemont 2025–2026
In receivership since 2023 and told to find a buyer before March 2026 — Moselle could lose up to 200 metalworking jobs.
Source ↗ - 8Sogefi Douai 2026
166 suspension jobs winding down through 2026 — next door to the Douai megasite that is supposed to absorb the shock.
- 9Lisi Automotive Puiseux-Pontoise 2026
Production left for Morocco and Germany — 135 of 153 CDI jobs deleted, 18 sales jobs moved 10 km away.
- 10Forvia Messei 2025–2026
An Orne exhaust-plant closure where the headline number itself is disputed: 109 employees in the press, 123 jobs in Eurofound's factsheet.
Source ↗
What MiMo noticed
No single table publishes the three numbers people want together. Eurofound counts announced jobs (123 at Forvia Messei), the press counts employees on payroll (109), and INSEE publishes the local employment denominator separately — so the 'share of the local job market' has to be assembled by hand for every closure.
The buyer question is the real ranking driver: Bosch Mondeville spent 10 months hunting a repreneur and still closed (413 jobs), while Fonderie de Bretagne had been bought by Europlasma in 2025 and still ended in liquidation in October 2026 — a 'successful' takeover that failed.
On re-employment, DARES finds CSP beneficiaries do better than other economic dismissals — about 7 in 10 back in work versus roughly 48% for comparable laid-off workers — but this is a national rate, not a per-plant score. Nobody publishes 'how many Bosch Mondeville workers found new work 12 months later'.
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The same question, answered by DeepSeek alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Fonderie de Bretagne (Caudan, Morbihan) — 2026
A Dutch industrialist walked away after Renault refused to guarantee volumes; the 60-year-old foundry that once cast parts for the Renault 4 is liquidated with 244 jobs.
Source ↗ - 2Michelin Cholet and Vannes (Maine-et-Loire / Morbihan) — 2024–2026
1,254 jobs cut across two plants while Michelin posted record profits of €1.98 billion and paid its highest-ever dividend the same year.
- 3Bosch Mondeville (Calvados) — 2026
400 workers left in June 2026, half on early retirement; the 12-hectare site was bought by a public brownfield developer within weeks.
- 4Allgaier France (Faulquemont, Moselle) — 2025–2026
In a zone d'emploi of 4,569 jobs, the loss of 200 at one plant equals 4.4% of the entire local labour market.
Source ↗ - 5Forvia Messei (Orne) — 2025–2026
Forvia asked €2.9 million for the 11-hectare site; Flers Agglo bought it for €15 to stop a cut-price sell-off.
Source ↗ - 6Lisi Automotive Puiseux-Pontoise (Val-d'Oise) — 2026
135 jobs moved to Morocco and Germany while the group posted €1.7 billion turnover and €56 million net profit.
Source ↗ - 7Dumarey Powerglide Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) — 2026
320 jobs at risk as the last large automatic-transmission plant in France winds down.
- 8Mahle-Behr Hambach (Moselle) — 2025–2026
186 jobs in a Moselle industrial basin already losing NovAsco and Allgaier in the same 18-month window.
Source ↗ - 9TI Automotive Nazelles-Négron (Indre-et-Loire) — 2025
156 jobs gone at a brake-tube plant supplying Renault and Stellantis in the Touraine.
Source ↗ - 10Sogefi Suspensions Douai (Nord) — 2025–2026
130 permanent jobs cut at a Renault supplier in the Douai automotive basin.
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What DeepSeek noticed
In 2025 France recorded 83 industrial site closures against only 60 openings or expansions — a net loss of 23 sites in six months.
Flers Agglo bought the Forvia Messei site for €15 when Forvia was asking €2.9 million — a ratio of roughly 1:193,000 that captures how little industrial land is worth when the plant closes.