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Ateliers Lajoie, ACA, Mécachimie, Mécagest, Oran Temis… A ceremony of retirements and of delivery of medals of honor at work to Oran Themisit is a great opportunity to travel the industrial history of Cotentin.
Several honored technicians started their professional life at the Lajoie factories, in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (Manche), hired by the founderDaniel Lajoie, before the company was merged in 1987 with the Atelier construction d’Armanville, in Valognes, and fully integrated into the Areva group, under the name Mécagest.
Nuclear and naval industry
In 2018, under the name of Orano Temis, it became an expert group in the creation, in Valognes and Saint-Sauveur, of complex mechanical processes for the nuclear and naval industryand develops in Valognes concrete containers with metal flakes for the storage of short-lived nuclear waste.
Orano Temis is renowned for its boiler components made of refractory stainless steel, titanium, tantalum, zirconium or special alloys. These components are containers, condensers, electrolysers, boilers and glove box structures used in the nuclear and chemical industries.
Honored employees
Retired: Serge Bonnemains, Jacques Cantrelle, Xavier Guesdon, Charles Jaunet, Michel Le Boisselier, Jean-Michel Le Normand, Marc Lecoeur, Noël Lecourt, Philippe Lemière, Bruno Lesage, Philippe Sahenard.
Medals of Honor at Work: Grand Or: Dominique Chapet and Jean-Marie Frémond; Gold: Jean-Michel Le Normand, Roger Médina and Olivier Régnault; Vermeil: Pascal Leblond and Patrick Lelerre; Silver: Arnaud Bihel, Jennyfer Le Men, Pascal Leblond, Guillaume Lecouvey and Jonathan Letoupon.
A well filled order book
Ses workshops also manufacture mechanical components medium-sized: baskets of drums for the transport of fuels, containers and various components intended for the nuclear and armaments sector. The order book is full and positions need to be filled on its various sites.
During a beautiful ceremony organized by the hand of a master this Thursday December 15, 2022 to the City of the sea de Cherbourg by Nathalie Hamel, the managing director of Oran Temis, Emmanuel Diers, honored twelve employees who had received the medal of honor for the work and asked their managers to chart the careers of eleven young retirees.
From our correspondent Etienne DEVAILLY
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