Industry 4.0: Atlantic France offers a handful of opportunities for composite materials companies

A land of industry, Atlantic France has made composite materials a development priority and is home to high-expertise labs and companies. If you own a business in this field or are looking for innovative and sustainable solutions, let’s meet at the leading professional event JEC in May 2022.

Are you looking for new business opportunities? In Atlantic France, the composite materials sector represents 90 companies and 11,500 jobs, along with 22 research labs and 9 engineering schools. This region is an ideal location for new businesses to set up and for providers to offer their products and solutions. And many players are currently carrying out exciting projects: 

• In aeronautics, the global leaders Airbus, with its zero-emission development centre in Nantes, and Daher with its tech center Shap’In 
• In the space industry, the Perseus project which aims to use flax fibre to build rockets
• The Technological Research Institute Jules Verne and its fast-track production line for composite parts 
• Many companies and tech centres in a wide variety of fields such as marine renewables, manufacturing, sailing, agri-food, electronics and construction

Making composite materials more sustainable

The industry of the future must be sustainable. The key challenges for the composite materials sector are improving  eco-design, diversifying sources of materials and developing circular economy policies.

Atlantic France is a pioneering region for innovative and collaborative projects aiming to make composite materials more sustainable. This is, for example, the case for the 100% recyclable turbine blade developed by the research centre IRT Jules Verne and the boat made from carbon fibre remains which the skipper Armel Tripon is working on with Airbus.

Is your business in the composites materials industry or does it make use of them? If so, Atlantic France is the place for you! 

Book an appointment with one of our business advisors or come along to the global event JEC World 2022 in Paris (3rd-5th of May) at booths R74 and R84.