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Airbus A350 assembly hall, Toulouse - France - © Calvo Tran Van Architectes

Designing high-performance industrial buildings

Coteba progressively asserted Coteba was then able to rely on a team of engineers familiar with managing turnkey industrial
itself in the industrial buildings building operations and with creating site master plans starting from scratch. Several organic
sector. As early as the 1970s, the and external growth operations subsequently consolidated this skill set.
company began proposing its
project management services to In 2010, Artelia integrated Sodeg, an engineering firm originally acquired by Coteba not long
industrial clients, although it wasn't before the merger, which specialised in building industrial plants in northern France. The
until 2006 that it became firmly Group also integrated Tahon Ingénierie (2010), a biotechnology and virology specialist, and
committed in this sector following then GECC AICC/RL Consultant/Ingetech (2012), which contributed its high-level expertise in
the acquisition of the "Industrial clean room technologies and the semiconductor industry. In parallel with these acquisitions,
Process Engineering and Logistics" Artelia also built up teams specialising in other sectors such as wines and spirits, cosmetics
division of Thec (Thalès Engineering and the nuclear industry, to mention just a few.
& Consulting). In 10 years, our Group has been particularly outstanding in the construction of industrial
buildings for the aeronautics, food processing, pharmaceutical and cosmetic sectors. It
has also gained a strong reputation in the implementation of high-tech logistics hubs and
prominent R&D centres while continuing to expand its activity in security systems for sensitive
facilities.

François Rambour
Executive Director I Buildings, Regions & Equipment

60 I ARTELIA, 10 YEARS OF EXISTENCE, 100 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE