Page: Metallurgy
Printed: 09.10.2010 03:47:08 PM
Website: http://www.adielor.com/zone/atouts/us/metallurgy.php?s_lg=us
METALLURGY AND MECHANICS IN LORRAINE mainstays and cutting edge sectors of French industry
Whereas iron and coal mines will have disappeared from the region's landscape by 2005, the development of new industries, which are the direct heirs of this high-prestige past, show the way in which the Lorraine steel industry has been redeployed. Amongst other factors, this is due to the importance/size of foreign operations, which make it one of the leading French regions when it comes to the number of jobs being created in this way.Driven on by giants such as Sollac Lorraine (Arcelor), Saint-Gobain PAM, Unimétal, ISPAT, CORUS, this momentum has led to considerable diversification and the development of sectors specialising in the processing of metals (smelting, forging and stamping, boiler-making, cutting and drawing) with leaders such as Bronzes d'Industrie, Viessmann, Trane, Nordon, Munch, Sofreb, Ferembal, etc. and mechanical construction (roofing, aerolics, agriculture, special machines, machining, precision assembly work, pumps) represented by EXMA, ArcelorTubes, Eiffel, Viry, Sécométal, Class, Gouvy, Grundfos, ThyssenKrupp, Realmeca, CMV, etc...
| KEY DATA |
| - A shop window for the French steel industry |
| - +1,000 businesses, from SMEs all the way up to international groups |
| - The region's leading employer |
| - +45,000 employees including over 1,000 researchers |
| - 11 engineering schools |
| STRONG POINTS |
| - A prestigious industrial past which has been successfully redeveloped |
| - A key position both upstream of and close to the European markets |
| - An especially promising environment and industrial potential |
| - The development of transverse synergies |
| - Advanced training courses and advanced level research |
| - Living know-how |
| TRAINING - R&D |
| - CFA and IUT courses of study, training for apprentices and specialist executives |
| - ENIM, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Ingénieurs (National Engineering School) |
| - ENSGSI (Higher School of Industrial Systems Engineering) |
| - ESSTIN (Higher School of Engineering Science) |
| - ENSAM, Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Arts et Métiers (Higher National School for Arts and Crafts) |
| - IRSID, Europe's leading steel industry research centre |
| - Institute of welding, soldering and related techniques |
Top of page
- - Agro food
- - Motor industry
- - Chemicals
- - Timber
- - Call Centers
- - Environment
- - Electronics
- - Logistics
- - Metallurgy
- - Paper
- - Plastics processing
- - Health
- - ICT
