Key Sectors

Saint-Etienne Métropole is located in France’s leading region for industrial equipment items, and also plays a special role in various domains such as:


Industrial equipment /car industry/ aeronautics/Medical technologies/Technical textiles / Optics and vision/Design/Food products/Graphics/imaging centre/Electricity, electronics, automation, industrial informatics/sustainable development /ITC

Indeed, leading names such as CASINO, IKEA, WEISS, CLEXTRAL, PINGUELY-HAULOTTE, FOCAL JM LAB, THUASNE, ... have chosen to set up in the region.

Similarly, a large number of foreign companies have discovered a favourable environment for their development projects here, including FLEXTRONICS (USA), AKERS (Sweden), AXELTECH (USA), NATRA ZAHOR (Spain), GARLOCK (USA), KOYO (Japan), and others.

The strong involvement of local players (industry, research and training) has enabled the development of a strong local synergy which has led to the creation of 6 competitiveness clusters.
A competitiveness cluster groups together companies, public and/or private research units and training centres in a specific geographical area. These associations thus work together in partnerships designed to benefit from the synergies around innovative projects.
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