Ecoterritoire Loire en Rhône Alpes

Access

An outstanding transport infrastructure:

• Direct access via the A72/A89 (Bordeaux/Lyon/Geneva) interchange to
• 2 international airports: Lyon Saint Exupéry in 1 hr and Geneva in 2 hrs
• St Etienne Châteaucreux TGV( high speed train) station (Paris in 2 hrs 40)
• a freight rail service and combined transport operators... La Loire en Rhône-Alpes also benefits from its proximity to the Rhone and its waterway facilities (Edouard Herriot Port - Lyon)

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Available real estate and land

OPERA international business park: a site devoted to clean technologies. This industrial zone covers over 500 hectares and provides 6000 jobs and is home to leading companies in the water treatment, surface engineering and agrifoods sectors etc.

The park has:

• 80 available hectares remaining: parcels of 5 to 50 hectares
• Good broadband coverage (FTB) Fiber to Building (100Mbis)
• Loire Quality Label and sustainable development initiatives
• A service platform managed by the business club ACCTIFS

Saint-Chamond site: The business park is part of a strong initiative for quality with an environmentally-friendly approach to planning. 21,100 sq. m of buildings are currently available (including a single 14,400 sq. m plot.)

In La Loire en Rhône Alpes, there is also the possibility of setting up on an approved site that has been tailored to your project requirements.

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Financial aid and other incentives

The Loire en Rhône-Alpes green business region also implements financial and tax incentives for clean businesses:

• AFR: regional aids
• PAT: regional planning grants
• Two county council programs: FADDEL (real estate) and FADDEM (tangible and intangible investment)
• An Energy and Climate Program
• A County Council Campaign Against Climate Change

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Training, research, human resources

 A labor market area of 500,000 inhabitants in a metropolitan area of

2.5 million inhabitants (Lyon urban area)

A renowned scientific and academic environment:

• PRES, Lyon and Saint Etienne(university network)
• Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de St Etienne (Graduate School of Engineering)
• INSA, Lyon (Institute of Applied Sciences)
• ENISE (National Engineering College, Saint-Etienne)
• Ecole centrale de Lyon (engineering school)
• ITECH (engineering school)
• ESC Saint-Etienne (business school)

Private R&D centers (HEF: surface engineering) and resource centers for companies (Green-design cluster)... 

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Flagship companies

 La Loire en Rhône-Alpes is home to numerous businesses, 36 of which employ over 200 people each, and in several strategic fields: mechanical and industrial engineering (3^rd highest concentration in France), medical technologies, optics, textiles, agrifoods, innovative and creative services, digital etc.

Example of the Clean Business environment:

• SNF Floërger, world leader in flocculants for the treatment of sewage
• OSSABOIS, leaders in wooden-structure housing
• Pramac Lifter France: wind turbines
• FORGITAL: large scale manufacturing of wind turbines
• Rheinzink (flexible solar panels)
• HEF, surface treatments, fine layer coating

Numerous flagship companies have set up within Rhône-Alpes: Photowatt, Tenesol, Total, IFP, ...

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Find out more

The main lines for development in the Loire Green business region:

A collective application to the Cleantech competitive cluster in collaboration with partners in the Rhône-Alpes for energy optimization: clean manufacturing techniques, lighting etc.

Eco-Bois Plus Program:

The Eco-Bois Plus (ecologically sound way of processing wood) is a green-build program that Inter-Forêt Bois 42 is developing from 2009 to 2011, and this on the joint request of the County Council and the DRIRE, (Regional directorate for industry research and environment) in partnership with the Latere agency, the DDE and the FFB.

www.ecoboisplus.com

www.ifb42.com

Local actors committed to and driving forward renewable energy initiatives: Latere, SIEL , HELIOSE, ...

www.adel42.com

All the Green Tech Territories of France:

Aveyron

Seine et Marne

Haute-Vienne

Vosges

Creusot Montceau

Somme - Picardie Maritime

Vendée.

Loire

Aquitaine