Setting up your business in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Why set up your company in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France?

Nouvelle-Aquitaine is the 1^st French region in terms of creation of green jobs and benefits from a strategic geographic position along the North-South logistic corridor. 
Several organisations specialised in innovation, research or the promotion of green technologies have already set up in this French region. 

Laboratories dedicated to environmental activities in Nouvelle-Aquitaine

• GEMH: wood construction
• GRESE: water, soil, environment
• LCSN: natural products chemistry

Technological platforms

• NOBATEK: sustainable construction
• CEA TECH: solar energy, hydrogen, hydrocarbon
• FCBA: technical institute for forestry, cellulose, wood construction, furnishing
• CERTIPOS: solar panels
• INEF 4: renewable energies
• ODESSOL: water, waste, soil
• CTMNC: energy-saving materials
• APESA: biomass and waste recovery

Competitive clusters

• AVENIA géosciences
• S2E2: energy efficiency
• Xylofutur: materials for sustainable construction

Clusters and business networks

• Creahd: sustainable construction
• Cluster Eclair: green building
• Cluster Eskal Eureka: green building
• Pôle éco-industrie Poitou-Charentes: energy efficiency, renewable energies, waste recovery
• Cluster éco-habitat Poitou-Charentes Limousin: sustainable management
• Pôle Environnement Limousin: water, air, soil, renewable energies
• Cluster énergie marines: off-shore wind parks
• Cluster éolien aquitain
• Cluster eau & climat: management of groundwater resources
• SYSOLIA: solar panels
• Aquitaine croissance verte: sustainable development
• DEMAIN: innovative materials

International companies in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Major leading companies of the environmental industry: EXOSUN, EOSOL ENERGIES NOUVELLES, FONROCHE ENERGIE, EDF ENERGIES NOUVELLES, PYRAINE, ASTRIUM, PLASTINOV, BERTIN TECHNOLOGIES, VALOREM, SUNNCO, SOLAREZO and so on.