Norman Emballages, a 65 employees, born in 1840 on the island of Jersey, settled in Taden on the banks of the Rance in 1908. The large poplar trunks piled up behind the factory were transformed into wooden crates for fruit and vegetables and … for oysters. Here, the poplars become baskets. “We bark the poplar, in other words we undress it, we cut it up, then we unroll it”, explains Paul-André Troy, CEO of Norman Emballages. “This is the principle of the pencil sharpener. We unroll the sheets and cut them again to make strips which will then be assembled to make a packaging”, specifies the CEO.
In the workshops, it smells of wood. Some machines date from the turn of the century. Until mid-December, it’s the big rush. Thousands of keepers are stored, ready to be shipped.
We deliver mainly from Normandy to the Arcachon basin and we make 15% of our turnover in exports, in particular the countries of northern Europe.
– Johan Moison
“We make every year ten million packaging including five million baskets“, specifies Paul-André Troy. The baskets made in Taden also go far further, in the United States or in China. In France, there are three other manufacturers of wooden oyster baskets.
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