Xavier BERTRAND, president of the Hauts-de-France Region, Alain GEST, president of Amiens Métropole, Hubert de JENLIS, mayor of Amiens and Claude VITRY, mayor of Poulainville react to the judicial liquidation of Ynsect.
This Monday, December 1, the Évry commercial court declared the judicial liquidation of the company Ynsect, the latter having noted that the company had not managed to raise the additional funds necessary to continue its activity. Ynsect, placed in receivership since March 2025 (and in an observation period since April), thus puts an end to a major industrial and technological initiative.
Xavier Bertrand, Alain Gest, Hubert de Jenlis and Claude Vitry are thinking above all of the Ynsect employees, who will soon be made redundant, as well as the site’s former employees. They express their deep solidarity with these women and men, who have been involved in this project sometimes for several years, and whose professional future must now be protected.
The Hauts-de-France Region and Amiens Métropole will always support the development of companies offering disruptive innovations like Ynsect. Supporting the emergence of such a project, including financially, meant agreeing to take a risk, motivated by the hope of economic, technological and ecological progress.
This project convinced the highest level: the State, Bpifrance experts, local authorities, and private investors. The total financing mobilized exceeded 600 million at Ynsect’s first fundraising. This broad consensus demonstrated a shared confidence in the potential of the project.
Several factors explain its failure:
- a persistent difficulty in stabilizing the industrial process;
- a less mature market than expected;
- a context of strong international competition, with traditional animal proteins less environmentally virtuous, but also less expensive, leading to a real contraction in prices.
Faced with this situation, the priorities of Xavier Bertrand, Alain Gest, Hubert de Jenlis and Claude Vitry are clear:
- support the retraining of employees as quickly as possible, in conjunction with France Travail and social partners;
- ensure that local subcontracting is as little impacted as possible by the disengagement of Ynsect;
- call on the Caisse des Dépôts et ConsignaƟons (CDC), owner of the future wasteland via the SCI formed with Ynsect, to quickly study the conditions for mutability and reindustrialization of the site.
