Strategic sectors

Environment

An economic sector that matters. Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur is the number three French region for environmental sciences and techniques with 500 enterprises whose primary or secondary business is environment-related.

The environmental businesses

The Var has about a hundred environmental businesses that specialise in waste processing and recycling, air and water purification, the manufacturing green products, risk analysis etc. They form a web of innovative SMEs and SMIs. 
  • There are about one hundred companies in the Var whose core business is the environment, almost one out every four companies in the region, and more than twice that ratio in related lines of business.
  • The economic fabric in the Toulon area has close ties with the sea, defence and state-of-the-art technologies – knowledge areas that can be applied to the environmental sector.
  • Operators based in the Var that are of national if not international importance (CNIM, Pizzorno …).
  • Many innovating SMEs and engineering offices.
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5 major economic sectors

  • Renewable energies
  • Waste
  • Marine environment and coastline and coastal developments
  • Continental water
  • Risk management

Some of the enterprises 

  • Boxter Recycling: plastics recycling.
  • CNIM: refuse incineration.
  • Pizzorno:waste collection and processing.
  • Degreane: air treatment.
  • Vitte: ink cartridge recycling.
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