Why set up your company in Department Ain, France?

Setting up your industrial company in Department Ain

First industrial department of France, the Department Ain hosts a large number of industrial companies: 

• 1^st European centre for plastics manufacturing and composite materials (900 firms and 28,000 employees)
• “Plastics Vallée” brings together research and training centres as well as companies
• 1^st French centre for industrial subcontracting (metal industry, mechanics, bodywork and heavy good vehicles)
• 1^st national centre for heating, ventilating and air conditioning
• A support network for research projects: the competitive cluster Plastipolis and IPC – Industrial Technical Centre for plastics manufacturing and composite materials
• Specialised training
• Industrial sites ideally suited for industrial activities

Developing your company in Department Ain

Business parks and commercial real estate for plastics manufacturing

The Technopark of Oyonnax hosts a large research centre as well as Plastipolis, France’s only competitive cluster for plastics manufacturing.

• The department Ain brings together more than 30% of the region’s workforce
• Higher School for Plastics Manufacturing (in Lyon and Oyonnax)
• Multidisciplinary teams of researchers
• The region Rhône-Alpes gathers 38% of the French researchers in plastics manufacturing.

International companies in Ain

The highest concentration of European industrial companies is situated within the “Plastics Valée” in Department Ain.

Major companies of the plastic processing industry: Hexcel (USA), Duqueine, MSA Gallet (USA), Polyone (USA), Lifocolor (Germany), Resinex (Belgium)