Called at 5 a.m., this Tuesday October 20, 2020, the emergency services have been mobilized for an hour and a half to extinguish the fire at the Ferrero factory in Villers-Ecalles, the group’s largest factory in the world.
A roaster of the factory caught fire and required two water hoses and five engines to put the fire to an end. Even though thick smoke was seen and required the evacuation of about a hundred people, the incident caused no injuries and had no ecological impact.
Ferrero has already announced part of the production will be stopped but announced no lay-off so far. The Villers-Ecalles Ferrero factory is devoted to the production of Nutella and Kinder Bueno and stocks 900 tons of cacao.
A few weeks earlier, Ferrero announced a 42-million-euro investment in Normandy to modernize the Villers-Ecalles factory, its home office and a new 36,000-sqm warehouse. The spread leader intends to open a new warehouse in Criquebeuf-sur-Seine that can stock 45,000 pallets, in order to gather together its distribution activities. The group is set in Normandy since 1950.
