The opportunities of the civil nuclear energy
La Seyne Sur Mer July 1st, 2010
VAR ITER ACTIONS gathers the Var Chamber of Commerce and Industry (industry department and Var Accueil Investisseurs), the Var Chamber of jobs and Crafts, Toulon Var Technologies Innovation and the Var Departmental Council. On July 1st, this network will organize in the office of CNIM (Brégaillon – La Seyne sur mer) a meeting on the following subjects: the opportunities of the civil nuclear energy, ITER and the CEA of Cadarache for the var industry. Program and registration on: http://variteractions.tvt.fr/ for further detailsEUROSATORY Exhibition
Paris 14-18 June 2010
Var Accueil Investisseurs participates to the EUROSATORY exhibition – land, Airland, Homeland Defence Week in order to promote the defense and safety sector in the Var- HALL 5 - S440. for further details
Environment
An economic sector that really counts.
Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur is ranked No. 3 in France for environmental sciences and
techniques with 500 firms whose primary or secondary line of business is in the area of environment.
The Var has a hundred or more environmental businesses that specialise in waste processing and recycling, air and water treatment, manufacturing green products, risk analysis and so on. They form a web of innovative SMEs and SMIs.
The Var has a hundred or more environmental businesses that specialise in waste processing and recycling, air and water treatment, manufacturing green products, risk analysis and so on. They form a web of innovative SMEs and SMIs.
- For about one hundred companies in the Var, roughly one out of four in the region, the environment is their core business, that figure almost doubles if we add associated activities.
- An economic base in the area of Toulon with strong maritime, defence and leading edge technology links - all competencies that can be applied to the environment sector.
- Operators in the department of national if not international importance, (CNIM, Pizzorno …).
- Many innovative SMEs and engineering offices.
5 major economic sectors:
- Renewable energies
- Waste
- Marine environment and coastal and seaboard development
- Continental water
- Risk management
Some of the firms and establishments
- Boxter Recycling: plastics recycling.
- CNIM: refuse incineration.
- Pizzorno: waste collection and processing.
- Degreane: air treatment.
- Vitte: ink cartridge recycling.