Transformation companies choose South Champagne for the wealth and variety of its agricultural, viticultural, and forestry resources. Among the many crops, the region stands out for its production of industrial hemp, sainfoin, Champagne vineyards, and a strong presence of hardwood trees in its forests. Local raw materials enable secure supply chains, reduce carbon footprint, and optimize life cycle analyses of processed products.
A sector with a promising future, the bioeconomy and circular economy are major development axes, supported by local economic and institutional stakeholders.
Join South Champagne, where local actors and Business Sud Champagne are mobilized to welcome, support, and accelerate your project!
hemp producer in France and in Europe
at the heart of France's second largest forest area - Grand Est region
hectares of agricultural land
world champagne producer
french sugar beet producer
115 million consumers within a day’s truck journey
700,000 m² of warehouses
250 companies in transport and logistics
4 modes of transport suited to your activity:
Agricultural and forestry raw materials: beech, poplar and oak, hemp and sainfoin crops
Numerous resources available: cereals, oilseeds, potatoes, beets, forage, alfalfa, hemp, sainfoin, poppy, sauerkraut cabbage, carrots, lentils, vineyards, apples…
Major international agricultural cooperatives provide processing and logistics activities in South Champagne: In Vivo/Soufflet, Vivescia, Saipol of the Avril group, Cristal Union, Scara, La Chanvrière, Sainfolia.
The Troyes/St Lyé business park: 58 hectares dedicated to research, innovation and training (Bioeconomy Campus) and to multi-sector industrial processing activities.
Why wouldn’t you?
Land available at very competitive prices.
Flexible hosting solutions to start your business: incubator, business nurseries, or business hotels.
European Hemp Pole: An innovative structure for cooperation and co-construction around the “hemp” resource, which unites, organizes, and meets the expectations of different actors to develop new products, new applications, and open new markets: food, construction, cosmetics, plastics and composites, health, textiles.
South Champagne Wood Pole: In association with Fibois and the PETR with forests, companies across the entire value chain share their experience and work on collective projects aimed at improving their performance and the image of the sector.
Biogaz Vallée®: Unique in France, this cluster dedicated to methanization unites, animates, and supports the industrial and scientific methanization sector.
Aube Industrial Ecology Club: This association raises awareness and connects local economic actors to meet the challenges of more sustainable development. Industrialists exchange, work in synergy with collaborative tools, and share their experiences through workshops, company visits, events…
Biogas and Methanization Business Convention: Since 2012, Biogaz Vallée® has organized the annual key event of the biogas sector in France, with one main ambition: to accelerate networking between operators & project sponsors – agricultural, industrial or territorial – and suppliers of solutions applied to methanization and gas mobility.
Launch of the European Hemp Pole: 200 people representing the entire hemp industry were gathered at the Aube Congress Centre in February 2023 for this event.
Ressources Congress: The 6th edition of this meeting took place in 2022, bringing together businesses, training centers, institutional actors, and providers of innovative material valorization solutions. A moment for exchange, information, and sharing experiences.
Woodoo transforms underused wood into high-performance, low-carbon materials to replace the most energy-intensive materials in the construction industry, such as concrete, aluminium and steel, at a competitive price.
Multifolia launches the first industrial demonstrator for extracting molecules of interest from sainfoin.
Cibbios: Production of prefabricated bio-sourced walls in hemp concrete grown in Aube and wooden structures. The manufacturing and drying on the Vendeuvre/Barse site facilitate construction and improve performance: carbon footprint, insulation, thermal inertia, fire resistance…
Saipol, Avril Group: In addition to products for human and animal consumption, Saipol, a French leader in the transformation of rapeseed and sunflower, has diversified into the production of Diester, a rapeseed biodiesel that powers truck fleets. A real alternative to petrochemical-derived products.
Helmes International: Artifil, a specialist in industrial metal wire and plastic injection, has established in Haute Marne a manufacturing activity for twine made from natural fibers. Used for tying plants, this twine can be valorized in composting with agricultural waste.
Garnica, a Spanish popular peeling group, chose the Troyes agglomeration to establish its 7th factory in 2020. For this first X.0 factory, Pierre Dhorne, director of the Troyes unit, called upon the dual expertise of the UIMM and the IoT Academy to analyze the production process before the launch, install sensors to facilitate predictive maintenance and safety, and assist HR and the Maintenance Manager in recruiting and training staff.
Integrate the latest trends and new technologies of the industry of the future by collaborating with the Troyes Institute of Services and Industry of the Future (ISIFT), which also leads the Connected Innovation chair through technical meetings and conferences.
Industrial Transition Through Innovation (TIPI): An engineering student supervised by a research professor from the UTT helps you innovate, verify the feasibility of a product, and integrate future industrial and technological trends.
From agriculture to the maintenance of production tools, recruit skilled labour and upgrade the skills of your employees thanks to initial or continuing training courses from CAP to Bac + 5.
500 actors committed to change
A benchmark in France and Europe. This bio-economy cluster works on issues related to the production and use of biological resources (agriculture, forestry, marine resources, by-products and residues) for food, industrial and energy purposes.
More biobased fibres for textiles
“Fibre Recherche Développement”, the private technical centre offering turnkey support solutions for the entire natural fibre application value chain: knowledge of markets and fibres, characterisation, fractionation, functionalisation, etc.
Integrate electronics, mechanics or pneumatics into your textile products
Open R&D centre for plant fractionation, white biotechnology and plant chemistry.
Ask the 360 UTT researchers
9 scientific and technological platforms are available for companies to integrate data and move towards the industry of the future.
Wood technology platform
Wood technology platform
The European laboratory with expertise in biomass recovery
Material characterisation, innovation, R&D, pilot tests and customised trials, digestate and compost recovery…
Regional Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre for the WOOD industries
Promoting, developing and transferring technology to businesses: studies, expert appraisals, trials and collaborative contracts.
