Safety and security

A booming market in the Paris-Charles de Gaulle area

The security industry currently generates a turnover of 350 billion euros across the world, with an average increase of ten to 12 per cent every year.
The possibilities to develop and extend this market are legion at Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport and its surrounding area:

• The implementation of new surveillance facilities: CCTV, passenger screening and baggage screening at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Paris-Le Bourget airports
• The presence of international-class infrastructures and facilities, such as the Stade de France, the Paris-Nord Villepinte exhibition park, industrial estates, logistics facilities, major hotels, and more
• The growing needs of the area’s major companies whose business is linked to activities at the airports themselves, and also of company headquarters, R&D centres, banks and insurance companies, etc.

 An industry that’s enormously diverse

• Nearly 2,700 companies and 30,000 employees
• The involvement of major global security brands, backed up by a dense network of small and medium-size companies in niche markets
• A polyvalent coverage that extends to the security of goods and people, computer security, biological security, road safety, fire safety and biometrics
• A very high diversity of professions, ranging from night watchmen to positions with very significant added value, such as R&D or the manufacture of high-tech equipment

 The involvement of the world’s major security brands

• Biological security: the Silliker and Pasteur Cerba laboratories
• Security of goods and people: the Apaye group, which employs 1,300 people at Cergy-Pontoise),
• Road safety: the Tyco Electronics group, the research and development facility for Johnson Controls Automotive Electronics (over 1,100 employees at Osny), Thales Training & Simulation (700 employees at Cergy-Pontoise) and Arcelor Mittal Rentec
• Biometrics: Sagem, Europe’s third largest defence and security electronics group, has a very strong presence in the area (its Éragny-sur-Oise site, the Sagem Défense Sécurité research centre, provides some 1,300 jobs alone, and there are other facilities at Argenteuil, Cergy and Osny)
• Fire safety: Coteba (871 employees at Saint-Denis)

 A dense network of small and medium-sized companies with a huge variety of specialisms:

• Road safety: the Japanese group Akebono Europe’s centre for research into vehicle braking; NCS Autoliv, a subsidiary of the Swedish group Electrolux, the world’s largest designer-producer of airbags and the European leader in safety belt technology; the R&D site for Autoliv Electronics; Motorcycles Industries and Tech Boissier Media Services; and more
• Security of goods and people: ATLS, Erys, Alarm’expo, Boon Edam, Nad Protection and Esculpe
• Fire safety: Extincteurs Andrieu, France’s second largest fire extinguisher company, with 250,000 units produced each year; Protect Feu

A large number of secondary and higher education faculties offer courses linked to the safety and security industry, thereby firmly rooting it in technological innovation: these include ESIEE, EBI (Ecole Biologique Industrielle), EISTI, Paris 8 and Paris 13 universities, and more.

A sector arranged in networks

The Pays de Roissy S2 R2 (Sécurité-Sûreté-Réseau-Roissy) network

Founded in 2008, through an initiative led by the Pays de Roissy-CDG association, this network aims to bring together all companies that design or provide security and safety solutions in the Paris-Charles de Gaulle area, in order to offer a global approach to the installation of security equipment (CCTV, entrance controls) – especially to the area’s major ordering parties and local authorities.
The Pays de Roissy-CDG has been active since 2003, and is made up of a large number of socioeconomic and political bodies involved in local life in the Paris-Charles de Gaulle area.

GIMES
GIMES is the professional association of all manufacturers of security-related electronic equipment. Its members inform, train and advise installers, security professionals, consultants, distributors and users about the functions and operation of their products.

The Systematic competitiveness hub
Systematic is the Paris region’s world-class competitiveness hub on the theme of design, production and expert use of complex systems. The hub is both a ‘technological innovations factory’, thanks to its research and development projects, and an innovation cluster firmly rooted in the Paris region.
More than 540 organisations are involved in the hub’s R&D network: small and medium-sized companies, research centres, training establishments and local authorities.
And beyond the collaborative R&D programmes, the hub has an ‘ecosystem’ of 650 innovative small and medium-sized companies.

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