Tuesday 11 October 2011

Manufacturers create the think tank The Making Industry

This is because they are convinced that there is no strong nations and there is no industry in this field a cultural battle that carry out urgent Louis Welsh, CEO of EADS, Pierre Gattaz, president of Group of Industrial Federations (GFI) and patron of the Board of Radiall, Denis Ranque, president of the Circle of industry and head of Technicolor and Frederic Saint-Geours, president of the Union of Industries and metal trades (IAJ) decided to launch together, Monday, Oct. 10, The Making of the industry.
This think tank, chaired by Mr. Welsh, is a place of self reflection and debate on (and around) the industry. It proposes to work in depth, multidisciplinary and sustainable on issues that also affect the economy and society to help and to "build a vision for French industry in the medium and long term within a European and global levels. "
With a budget of 1.1 million euros a year and a website (www.la-fabrique.fr), the association's managing director Thierry Weil, a professor at Mines ParisTech. Its Scientific Advisory Board is composed of a small fifty people. There are large groups of patrons (EADS, Vallourec, Rhodia ...), to medium-sized companies (ETI) and SMEs in all industry sectors, as well as experts (the School of Mines, the Toulouse School of Economics, the Circle of economists etc.). and members of the metal as Dominique Gillier (CFDT) and Frederic Homez (FOR).
The factory industry in 2012 will launch a series of panel discussions, publications and events connected with the public. She also arrested five areas of work for 2012-2013: establishing a shared (eg on the drive and handicaps of the French and Industrial ETI) involve all stakeholders in the "reconstruction of a social pact around the industrial competitiveness "to involve the government in developing a revamped industrial policy, develop talent and prepare the future by reflecting on issues including innovation in each sector.
Some topics are being explored: the analysis of Swedish and Italian industrial ecosystems, the study of agri-food sector, the regeneration of social dialogue or the realities of learning in France and elsewhere. At a time when political debate was revived in France around the economic and social consequences of globalization, the issues of relocation, relocation or the Canadian example of successful re-industrialization could also be considered.
The founders of the factory are both confident and lucid. Well placed to know their strengths and weaknesses, they know that the industry is far from having recovered its pre-crisis levels and that "industrial companies are now subject to the test in France and Europe. "If they do not believe in the inevitability of industrial decline, if they feel the surge still possible, they also know that their time is running out.

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