Infrastructures
published on 11/19/2024
Less energy-intensive than road transport, river transport has considerable potential in France thanks to its extensive network of navigable waterways. In French Ardennes, the Port of Givet, with its many services and facilities, provides links via the Meuse to European ports (Antwerp, Liège, and...
published on 12/16/2021
Created in 2015, with UIMM and the support of local partners and Grand Est Region, Platinium 3D, the additive manufacturing platform located in French Ardennes region has already helped many companies to industrialise this new process.
Platinium 3D specialises in producing metal parts and is...
published on 01/29/2020
The new Campus Sup Ardenne in Charleville-Mézières was officially inaugurated on 13 September 2019, opening its doors to university students (over 2,000 to date) and offering high-quality teaching in an attractive and functional setting.
Supported by the Ardenne Métropole urban community, the Grand...
published on 01/15/2019
End of July 2018, the new Ardennes motorway (A304), was opened by French Transport Minister, Elisabeth Borne, with a wide range of other French and Belgian political and economic figures.
Devised to relieve Charleville-Mézières town centre and to improve access to Belgium, the new road positions...
published on 02/08/2018
In December 2017 and then January 2018, ENERCON, a European wind turbine manufacturer, successfully transported wind turbine components through Givet Port (French Ardennes), which as a result was able to demonstrate its role as a multimodal sea-rail-road platform open to Northern Europe.
After the...
published on 11/09/2017
As part of its development project, Ardenne Metropole is developing its Le Moulin Le Blanc university site, with the support of the Ardennes’ Departmental Board and the Grand Est Regional Council.
French Ardennes are an industrial area and offer education which has been developed to meet the needs...
published on 07/31/2017
At a business leaders’ meeting in May, the president of Ardenne Métropole, Boris Ravignon, introduced the brand new regional incubator Rimbaud’Tech.
Given that new law dictates regions and main cities to be responsible for economic development, Ardenne Métropole needed to develop a tool which would...
published on 07/31/2017
French Ardennes are at the forefront when it comes to energy diversification. The area generates energy from all available sources (wind, biomass, hydroelectric and nuclear power). In order to make its production sites sustainable, EDF has embarked upon an extensive modernisation programme in the...
published on 05/03/2016
The Business France agency, result of the merging of the French International Investments Agency (Agence française des investissements internationaux, AFII) and Ubifrance, the French agency for the international development of companies, has recently published its annual report on the...
published on 11/26/2015
Started in October 2011, the Couvin bypass, the last segment of the Rotterdam-Marseille highway on Belgian soil, has just entered its last phase.
For an estimated cost of almost 49 million euros, this phase should be completed in the1st half of 2018, said Maxime Prevot, Wallon Minister for Public...