From Refresco to Oppidum packaging, activity will resume on January 8 at the Nissan-lez-Ensérune plant

L’usine Refresco de Nissan-lez-Ensérune s’appellera désormais Oppidum conditionnement. DR

Après la cessation d’activité de Refresco, l’usine de Nissan-lez-Ensérune rouvrira ce mercredi 8 janvier 2025 sous l’enseigne Oppidum conditionnement. Qui y embouteillera majoritairement des vins locaux.

This is another episode in the eventful history of the La Mouline industrial site in Nissan-lez-Ensérune. Closed for several months, the former Refresco factory will be back in business.

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A new adventure will kick off this Wednesday, January 8. Created in 1930, rebuilt in the early 1990s and successively bought by Teisseire (1994), Fruité (2001), Britvic (2010) and Refresco (2020), the factory will now be called Oppidum Emballage, an operating company under the control of Biron SA. Previously specialized in the preparation and packaging of non-alcoholic beverages, the site will now be dedicated to the bottling of wines, the vast majority of which are local.

Bottling of wines mainly produced locally

Like Midi Librerevealed a year ago, it was the Sète company Biron SA that entered into negotiations with Refresco France. The takeover project has been completed. As announced, around fifteen Refresco employees (out of 70) have been taken on. “I was impressed by their professionalism from my first visit, especially in this complicated period, greets its president Jean-Baptiste Biron. Sincerely, I found extraordinary people. Without them, we would never have been ready so quickly.”

SA Biron only became the owner of the site on September 3rd. Four months were not too much to renew all the bottling equipment, prior to a takeover of the activity, from Nissan. So it will be in a few days. Oppidum conditioning will ensure the bottling of wines “80% produced within a 30-kilometer radius of the plant”.

The link with the previous activity will also have a name: Matthieu Combes. The former director of Refresco will indeed remain at Nissan, now at the head of Oppidum conditioning.

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