Clean technologies

Set up in Lyon, your next sustainable business location!

World class cluster on green chemistry and environment

170 memberswww.axelera.org

Acoustics/VibrationsSoil treatmentAir treatment

Water treatmentWaste managementSite cleanup

HydraulicsWood energy Waste recycling Eco-construction

Renewable eneRgy Solar (photovoltaic, heat) Wind Geothermal Fuel cells

Catalysis CO2 capture and storage

ChemiCals

PlasticsIntermediate productsPolymersAdhesives Additives Fertilizers Processes Silicon Fluoroproducts

Bio mass

Hydro gen bio gas)(Bio fuels,

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The renewable energy clusterwww.tenerrdis.fr

Green building, combining renewable

energy and energy conservationwww.ecoenergies-cluster.fr

Sources: Opale, Axelera, Ernst & Young, Ademe, Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, INPI, UIC

LYON URBAN TRUCK AND BUS COMPETITIVE CLUSTER

APPEL

CLUSTER LUMIERE

TECHTERA COMPETITIVE

CLUSTER

PLASTIPOLIS COMPETITIVE

CLUSTER

CHEMISTRY RESEARCH CLUSTER

Urban transport systems for passengers and goods

www.lutb.fr

Association of Lyon eco-businesses www.eco-entreprises-appel.com

www.clusterlumiere.com

Technical and functional textileswww.techtera.org

Plastics industrywww.plastipolis.fr

Sustainable chemistry and chemistry for healthwww.cluster-chimie.fr

• 1,700 companies• Noise, vibrations and harshness: 100 firms• Soil treatment: 20 companies / 600 jobs• Air treatment: 80 companies / 2,000 jobs • Water treatment: 500 companies / 12,000 jobs /

14% of French turnover• Waste management and recycling: 450 companies /

9,000 jobs

enviRonment

• 500 companies (excluding pharmacy)

• 1st for chemical production in France (22,000 jobs in 2008)

• 1st European region for scientific publications on chemistry

• 1/4 of French patents on chemical materials (2007)

• IRCELYON: the largest catalysis laboratory in Europe, based in Lyon

• World largest NMR (1 GHz)

ChemiCals & gReen ChemistRy

CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES IN RHÔNE-ALPES

AXELERA COMPETITIVE CLUSTER

TENERRDIS COMPETITIVE

CLUSTER

ECO-ENERGIES BUSINESS CLUSTER

• 280 companies• 1st producer of hydroelectricity

in France (42% / 250 dams)• 1st region in number of wood

boilers in France• Solar PV: 38% of national market

shares, 71% of French R&D grants, 1/4 of French installations (3.4 MW in 2007)

• Solar thermal: 1/3 of French R&D grants, 18% of French installations (45,000 sq.m. in 2008)

• Wind: 80 MW with 68 generators in 2006

• Biomass/Biofuels: R&D on 2nd and 3rd generation biofuels (IFP), production of ethanol (Total), 1st region in number of wood boilers

Renewable eneRgy

Switzerland(Geneva)

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Paris(1h50

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Marseille (1h40 by TGV)Vienne

Paris

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A46 South

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Highway projects

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Italia (Turin)Grenoble

Chambéry(1h drive)

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport

Technology Park

NORTHERN ISÈRE TERRITORY

Chemistry Valley

Industrial Park Plaine de l'Ain

• Pollutec exhibition for tomorrow’s solutions to environmental and economic challenges. 73,668 professional visitors from 110 countries and 2,340 exhibitors in 2008. www.pollutec.com.

• The Renewable Energy Exhibition brings together all the players on 3 fields of application: power generation, RE solu-tions and building-integrated RE. 45,000 professional visitors / 800 exhibitors in 2009. www.energie-ren.com.

• Novatech exhibition is one of the main international conferences on sustainable technics and strategies in urban water man-agement. 675 professional visitors from 40 countries in 2007. www.graie.org/novatech.

• Summer University for Environment by APPEL, on eco-business for another development (eco-management, eco-production, eco-building). www.universite-ete-environnement.fr.

• 1st price LivCom Awards 2007 for category « sustainable town » for the enhancement of landscape (Berges du Rhône project)

• 2nd price World LivCom Awards 2007 for its quality of living environment

• « Clean » transport: 70% of journeys use non polluting modes (100% electric trams and less polluting new generation buses)

• A reference of high quality and environmental criteria for new office buildings defined by the local administration (ex: Lyon Confluence, Lyon Saint-Priest Technology Park, Part-Dieu District…)

• Among the most competitive business real estate prices in Europe, Lyon ranks 2nd in foreign real estate investments in France with:- 4.6 million sq.m. of office space (equals to Barcelona)- 300,000 sq.m. of office space and 650,000 sq.m.

of warehouse and business real estate are imme-diately available

- 65,000 sq.m. of new office space is delivered every year (on average)260

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Sources: Ernst & Young, OST, INPI, Ademe, Rhône-Alpes and Lyon Chambers of Commerce and Industry

INTERCoNNECTEd CENTRAL LoCATIoN ThAT REdUCES TRANSPoRT CoSTS• Air: 112 European connections via Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport / easyJet hub• Train: 3 TGV stations (Part-dieu, Perrache, Airport). only 3.22 Kg Co2

emitted per trip for one person between Lyon and Paris, versus 19.29 Kg CO2 by plane

• Road: 180 million Europeans can reach Lyon in just one day drive• Water: the European-caliber Rhône-Saône waterway handles freight

traffic via the Edouard Herriot Port, a gateway to the Mediterranean Sea

A HIGHLY quALIFIED WORkFORCE• 2nd largest employment pool in France with 778,678 employees in the Lyon

region (end of 2006), i.e. 31.3% of Rhône-Alpes• 1st research and higher education cluster in France (20 higher education

and research institutions), 151,900 students (15% foreigners), 10% of all French researchers work in the Lyon region

TRAINING PRoGRAmS dEdICATEd To SUSTAINABLE dEVELoPmENT• “LyonTech Campus”: concentration of Cleantech studies and research• Engineering schools such as Ecole Centrale of Lyon, Insa Lyon (National

Institute of Applied Sciences), Lyon higher School of Chemistry-Physics- Electronics, ESdES business school, Lyon Institute of political sciences

• And many other renowned schools and training programs for general studies

• Rhône-Alpes, 10th region in Europe for patents registering (1,880 patents in 2007)

• more than 2% of regional GdP invested in R&d• 12.4% of French patents registered in Rhône-Alpes in 2007 (based on

the French inventor’s address)• Research Tax Credit: fiscal subsidy to reduce R&d costs from 30% to 50%

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COST OF LIVING

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