Setting up your business in Cergy Pontoise

Why set up your company in Cergy-Pontoise, France?

Setting up your industrial company near Paris

In the heart of the region of Paris, France’s first industrial region, Cergy-Pontoise offers several development opportunities for SMEs:

• A network of companies and organisation, in order to facilitate your research and technical development: access to shared services, carrying out of projects, search for financing etc.
• Several services for companies
• 14 training centres with training courses in all fields
• Important traffic axis and a fast access to Roissy Airport and to the port of Le Havre

Finding the right location for your company in Cergy-Pontoise

Business parks and commercial real estate

Several players are oriented towards intelligent systems and industry services:

• 7 competitive clusters: System@tic, Moveo, Cap Digital, Cosmetic Valley, Astech, Novalog, Medicen

14 higher education institutions facilitate the recruitment process:

• Prestigious schools such as ESSEC or EISTI
• Trainings in the industrial and service sector
• 7,000 students
• 14 higher education institutions
• 23 research laboratories
• 650 engineers graduate every year
• 10 large-scale research centres
• 4,000 apprenticeships

Industrial companies in Cergy-Pontoise

Numerous industrial companies near Paris

The aerospace industry in Cergy-Pontoise (Cluster ASTech) consists of:

• 900 researchers and engineers
• Several large companies’ production units and research centres (Thalès Training, Sagem Défense et Sécurité)

The sustainable transport industry (Clusters Mov'eo and Systém@tic) in Cergy-Pontoise represents:

• 6,000 direct jobs
• 100 companies (such as Valeo, Autoliv Electronics, Johnson Controls)

The branch of digital technologies (Clusters Systém@tic and Cap Digital) brings together:

• 11,000 jobs
• 700 companies (Morpho, Sagemcom and so on)

The health and beauty industry (Clusters Cosmétic Valley and Médicen) gathers:

• Almost 30 companies (like Sisley, Clarins)