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Future French Demilitarization Facility Construction Begins

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

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MBDA CEO Antoine Bouvier yesterday laid the first stone of France’s future demilitarization facility, to be built at the company’s Bourges Subdray site, with military and civil authorities present at the event. Before the end of 2013, this facility will become operational at which point it will be capable of dismantling annually 2,500 tons of various types of sensitive munitions, notably missiles, the company said in a statement. It will permit the maximum recuperation of waste products that will be…

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