French charcuterie and ready meals specialist Fleury Michon has confirmed that construction is underway on a production plant in Cambrai, in northern France.

Attracting investment of EUR40m (US$57.9m), the plant will specialise in the production and packaging of cooked ham products.

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It is scheduled to open in April 2012, employing 100 staff and the workforce could rise to 200 in 2013.

The project to build a plant in Cambrai was first mooted in 2006 but was mothballed when business was impacted by the global economic crisis.

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