Research and higher education: Training Centres - Biology department: vocational Bachelor's degree in biotechnology (specialising in production and diagnosis); Masters in biochemistry of materials; Masters in structured matter and living systems. |
EBI (Higher Institute of Industrial Biology): engineering diploma in industrial biology and Master of Business Engineering in Quality Assurance and Process Validation. ATOMER offers ongoing vocational training in chemistry and polymers. Research laboratories working in Rubber and Polymers in the Val d'Oise |
- LPPI (Physical chemistry of Polymers and Interfaces Laboratory), which specialises in developing materials from conducting polymers and insulators. |
ELASTOPOLE and DEFI PME CAOUTCHOUC Elastopôle : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. SNCP : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. UCAPLAST : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
The Val d'Oise is home to nine competitiveness clusters including Elastopôle, recognised on July 5, 2007 by the Interminsterial Board of Regional Planning and Competitiveness. Elastopôle brings together companies, laboratories and training bodies in the Rubber and Polymers industry in the Val d'Oise. Its aim is to encourage business and employment by creating momentum for technological innovation and stimulating positive synergies between industry stakeholders.
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THE ELASTOPOLE COMPETITIVENESS CLUSTER Elastopôle already has 70 members, including world-leading multinationals working in the field of tyres and industrial rubber, a network of SMEs with recognised industrial knowledge and public and private-sector laboratories (over 3,500 researchers) located in the Val d'Oise as well as in the Centre, Auvergne, Pays de Loire and Île-de-France regions. This competitiveness cluster relies on a large number of stakeholders in the Paris region, including the French Rubber and Polymers Centre which brings together the National Rubber and Polymers Union, the Rubber and Plastics Research and Control Laboratory (LRCCP), the Rubber Training Institute (IFOCA) and the University of Cergy-Pontoise. |
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«The Val d'Oise is the most representative département in the Greater Paris area for rubber processing» |