France Fashions Slender Paris 2024 Torch From Raw Steel
Published on November 20, 2023
VIRE, France—It takes only four cars from the scrapyard—or the steel from about 50 washing machines—to make the 2,000 torches needed for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but the process requires a specific savoir faire. Six tons of steel were melted by manufacturing corporation ArcelorMittal, a Paris 2024 official partner, before being shaped into 0.7-millimetre plates that were shipped to the Normandy factory of French silverware and cutlery company Guy Degrenne. There, it is laser-cut, welded, and assembled by a couple of dozen workers who will deliver the torches by the end of January, marking the end of a nine-month process....