September 2005
Materials
(English - 730Ko)
September 2005
Matériaux
(French - 730Ko)
 
 
  Centre of Excellence: Alençon (ISPA, ISMO, CRITT Polymers and Composites).
  Numerous processing companies, drawing on ISPA, one of the few French graduate schools in the industry.
  The Caen-Basse Normandie Materials Centre.
  One CNRT(*) on Materials in Caen.
  Three CRITT(*): CRITT Polymers and Composites, CRITT Analyses and Surfaces in Louviers and CRITT BNC in Cherbourg.
  A Technological Platform(*) "Mechanical Composite Systems" dedicated to composite materials in Le Havre.
  A Technological Platform(*) Mécaniplast in Alençon dedicated to mechanics and plastics industries.
 
Key figures
  Plastic processing: 280 companies, eleven with more than 200 employees, 10,350 jobs.
  Materials: more than fifteen public laboratories working on the development of new materials and surface treatments for industry.
 

Automotive: Key Plastics, GDX Automotive, Wagon Automotive, Cooper Standard Automotive, Quadion, Sealynx Automotive, Tramico, Recticel, Plastic Omnium, Visteon...

Food-processing: Bemis, Global Plastics International, Amcor, Sphere...

Pharmaceuticals/Cosmetics: Valois/Aptar, Rexam Pharma, Rexam Dispending Systems, Otor, SGD, Alcan Packaging, Alliora, Augros Cosmetic Packaging, Crown, Stelmi Technologies...
 
ISPA Graduate Ingineering School in Plastics Processing, Alençon.
ISMO (Higher Institute for Mould Technology), Alençon. Training of mould makers and project managers.
ENSICAEN in Caen: training of engineers in the polymer sector.
INSA in Rouen: training of engineers in the polymer sector.
ENSICAEN in Caen: research on the synthesis and characterisation of polymer properties.
University of Le Havre Research on the physics and chemistry of polymers.
CERDATO (Arkema's R&D centre) in Serquigny: polymers, thermo-plastics.
MPP Normandie (Polymers, Plastics, Materials): a network of research workers (University of Caen/ENSICAEN) to serve the corporate sector.
 
A company’s testimony
"It’s because there is a plastic processing centre in Alençon that we chose this area to set up our production facility where more than one hundred people work. The quality of the contacts we made with the local authorities was a decisive factor in our choice."
Didier BOURGINE
Chairman and Managing Director of Augros Cosmetic France
 
ACCEVAL
Regional business incubator
CERDATO
Arkema's Design, Research and Development Centre
CRITT Polymers and Composites
Regional Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre
ISPA
Postgradutate Engineering School
Mechanical Composite Systems Technological Platform
The Materials Hub
Website of Core Technologies in Basse Normandie
 
 
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