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Renault Maubeuge: the most competitive plant in France
21 Dec 2018 | Front page, Investment, Mobility
Renault Maubeuge is one of Renault’s top performing sites in France. €450M will be invested there over the next 5 years. A strategic choice that solidifies the Hauts-de-France Region’s 1st place position in...

Coca-Cola is investing €19M in Dunkirk
29 Nov 2018 | Front page, Health Nutrition, Investment
Coca-Cola European Partners will invest €19M in its largest plant in France, located in Socx (near Dunkirk). A new ultra-modern glass bottle production line is scheduled to open in 2019.

Rafaut opens a next-generation factory in Valenciennes
30 Oct 2018 | Front page, Mobility
The aeronautics sector has been constantly growing in Hauts-de-France. And for good reason, after Safran’s new location in Rosult and SKF’s development in Rouvignies, Rafaut is investing €20M to create a new...

CGI: The store of the future in the heart of Lille
19 Oct 2018 | Front page, ICT
A close relationship, personalized offering, time savings… With its full-scale store of the future, Canada-based CGI is helping to create a unified buying process for consumers. Explanations.

Lots of buzz online about the Hauts-de-France Region
05 Oct 2018 | Front page, A region on the move
The Hauts-de-France Region has been the subject of a digital communication campaign aimed at European business leaders since mid-July. After ten weeks of broadcasting on social networks, the time has come to...

Maroquinerie Thomas is investing €6M in a factory in Arras
03 Oct 2018 | Front page, Investment
Leading European luxury goods subcontractor Maroquinerie Thomas has chosen Hauts-de-France for its future manufacturing site, with plans to invest €6M and create more than 250 jobs within the next four years....

BASF invests €1M on its Gravelines site
26 Sep 2018 | Front page, Advanced Materials
BASF Agri-Production is a subsidiary of the German group BASF, which produces most of the crop protection products marketed by BASF France’s Agro division. The Gravelines plant is expanding its production...

EcoPhos reinvests €35 million back into Hauts-de-France
17 Sep 2018 | Front page, Investment
With the first EcoPhos factory in Dunkirk now up and running, the Belgian phosphate company is already planning to open a second one!

Decathlon tests an inland waterway service between Duisburg and Delta 3
06 Sep 2018 | Front page, Green Business
After covering more than 10,000 km by train from China, Decathlon is diving into inland water transport to move its containers between Germany and Hauts-de-France.

Hauts-de-France ranked France’s #1 region according to IBM
06 Sep 2018 | Front page, A region on the move
According to the annual study by IBM Global Business Services, the Hauts-de-France Region is the top region for foreign investments in France.

Innosphère: shared innovation monitoring platform
07 Aug 2018 | Front page, A region on the move
Innosphère is a platform from CCI Hauts-de-France that makes it easy to access information about innovation in the Region.

Start of work for Refresco in Hauts-de-France
31 Jul 2018 | Front page, Health Nutrition, Investment
Following the €97 million investment announced at the start of the year, work to construct a new Refresco manufacturing unit in Nord (Le Quesnoy) has begun!

AgriLab: Agriculture 2.0 in Hauts-de-France
16 Jul 2018 | Front page, A region on the move, ICT, Health Nutrition
Located on the UniLaSalle site (Beauvais), AgriLab is an all-new collaborative innovation centre for the agriculture sector in Hauts-de-France.

Japanese company Takara Foods sets up business in Hauts-de-France
04 Jul 2018 | Front page, Health Nutrition, Investment
For its first location in Europe, Takara Foods, the Japanese agrifood company, has chosen Hauts-de-France!

New research facility for Kubota in Hauts-de-France
05 Jul 2018 | Front page, Investment, Mobility
The Japanese company Kubota is investing in Hauts-de-France for the creation of its European R&D center. A hundred jobs will eventually be created there.

Barilla invests €2 million in Hauts-de-France
10 Jul 2018 |
Barilla France has announced a plan to invest €2 million in its Harrys product manufacturing plant in Onnaing (near Valenciennes) in order to develop its new line of organic sandwich bread, a highly...

International investments in Hauts-de-France rewarded
10 Jul 2018 | Front page, A region on the move
Find out which five foreign companies were recognized in Amiens on June 29, at the Hauts-de-France International Investment Awards 2018 ceremony! A close look at the event’s success.

FEAL returns for a 3rd event
04 Jul 2018 | Front page, Mobility, A region on the move
The European Automotive Forum in Lille was held on June 20-21, with more than 200 attendees. The return of an event that has consolidated its reputation in the heart of France’s top automotive region:...

Hauts-de-France in pole position for investment by Renault
21 Jun 2018 | Front page, Mobility, Investment
Automobile manufacturer Renault has chosen France as an industrial base for its electric vehicles. More than €1 billion will be invested by 2022, on its top four production sites: Douai, Maubeuge, Flins and...

Hauts-de-France, specialists in sustainable transport
04 Jun 2018 | Front page, A region on the move, Mobility
Created in 2009, Transalley (Sustainable and Innovative Mobility Technology Park) has not stopped developing. Review of a cluster with international ambition and its future facilities for supporting...