
Is the story over? Born in 1945, inventor of glass deemed unbreakable, at the bottom of which many generations of children looked for a number supposed to indicate their age, Duralex had escaped closure several times. In 2024, it was its employees who saved the day by taking over the glassmaking business in the form of a cooperative. Then, in 2025, a fundraising campaign from the general public received millions of euros in investment promises in just a few hours. But that will not have been enough.
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