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A SKILLED AND MOTIVATED WORKFORCE
Today, in Saint-Quentin, cohabit already an important tissue of SMEs and a strong potential for labor combining skills and personal involvement. This workforce, for whom industrial employment remains very attractive, is qualified and motivated.
A DENSE TISSUE OF INDUSTRIAL SMEs
Agrifoodstuffs (Materne, Cereal Partners France, LU, Nestle, TEREOS - No. 1 of the sugar industry in the world, primary processing industries as high value-added activities), textil (Le Bourget, Bacou-Dalloz, Delcar Industries, Anderes Embroidery, Bochard Textiles –subcontractors of major brands), mechanics, metallurgy and automobile (Le Creuset MBK Yamaha group, Mahle Filter System, Borgers France, Delcar Industry ...), new technologies, (a business incubator cre @ tis, higher training centers -INSSET-Higher Institute of Science and Technology and the University Institute of Technology, many SMEs belonging to the e-economy), cosmetics (the two largest plants of l'Oréal group, Fapagau and Soprocos, who represent 60% of the french cosmetics production), OEM and ODM of electrical and electronic components (Nexans, Apegelec and Hazemeyer.)
SAINT-QUENTIN: THE NEVRALGIC POINT OF A HIGHLY COMPETITIVE INDUSTRIAL NETWORK
Saint Quentin is an integral part of three national poles of competitiveness.
- Pole “Industries and agro-resources." A large range of commercial outlets: biofuels, biopolymers, food ingredients and niche markets: cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals
- Pole "I-Trans." Gathering of the main players in the supply chain sector who carry out research on that issue.
- Pole "Up-Tex." An entity dedicated to the innovation in the field of technical textile.
A MAJOR AGGLOMERATION
As known as the capital of Upper Picardy, Saint Quentin is the first city of the department and hosts an employment pool of more than 200000 inhabitants. Its urban area has more than 100000 inhabitants, and has all the infrastructures of a respectable city. The density of historical monuments in the region and the quality of its transportion infrastructure make Saint Quentin a popular destination for tourists. Its quality of life is universally recognized.
TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE
Saint Quentin is located in the heart of a dense motorway network (Roissy Charles de Gaulle within 1:15, 150km far from Paris and Brussels, 205km from London), air (faster access to Roissy Charles de Gaulle than to the center of Paris), Rail (TGV station within 20 minutes, serving Paris, Lille, Brussels and London)
