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The French asbestos removal market is estimated at over €1.1 billion.

Asbestos was banned in 1997.

In recent years, the asbestos removal market in France has experienced significant growth and development, with new entrants quadrupling the number of establishments by 2020. Today, the market counts some 1,000 establishments.

Asbestos, a harmful silicate mineral, presents significant health risks. Asbestos removal mainly concerns asbestos concrete, accounting for 80%.

Asbestos removal services include dust removal, containment, extraction, quality control and waste disposal.

The introduction of stricter legislation has resulted in higher operating costs for certification, protection and training, with no commensurate increase in the fees charged to customers.

Asbestos removal robots could revolutionize the sector.

The construction, demolition and industrial sectors are the main consumers of asbestos removal services, accounting for half and a quarter of activity respectively. Asbestos removal is also benefiting from new markets such as ship and train dismantling.

The market potential is enormous.

Asbestos removal market players

  • Construction and infrastructure

Construction and infrastructure giants Vinci, Bouygues and Eiffage have vast resources at their disposal, enabling them to tackle large-scale projects that often include comprehensive asbestos eradication components.

  • Environmental managers and service providers

Veolia and Suez have entered the asbestos removal market.

  • Asbestos removal specialists

The market also includes pure specialists such as Snadec, DI Environnement, Serpol, Wig France Entreprises and DFD.

agirent is a rental company specializing in asbestos removal cabins and equipment.

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1.1 Introduction and scope of activity

The asbestos removal means the activity of removing asbestos in a building (collective and individual residential buildings, warehouses, factories and offices) as well as on the vehicles (trains and ships). Because of the health risks associated with the development of asbestos, asbestos removal is strictly regulated in France and throughout the world

Asbestos comes in many forms and appears on materials such as mortar, plaster, slab, roofing, bitumen or partitions. To remove asbestos from spaces and buildings, several steps keys are necessary: dust removal, containment, asbestos extraction, quality control and destruction of waste

The asbestos removal market in France is reaching maturity with a multiplicity of actors market players: construction industry players (Vinci, Bouygues) work alongside asbestos removal and site rehabilitation specialists, as well as site maintenance/improvement and deconstruction groups. Ancillary activities enable engineering groups and diagnostic specialists to carve out a place for themselves in certain market niches. As a result, players are trying to penetrate new adjacent market segments such as nuclear dismantling or asbestos removal for vehicles: this is the case of Vinci through its NAOM entity.

I mean, come on, innovation is key to the market with the rise of the robots asbestos removers and digital to simplify on-site diagnosis. The future challenge will be to succeed in combining the different professions and to tame digital and technological methods in order to survive in a market that still has a lot of potential.

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Suez breaks into the Polish biogas market - 19/07/2024
  • - Suez acquires 51% of ARA Cursus.
  • - 24.5% stake in ARA taken by Eiffel Gaz Vert.
  • - The Bourgogne group has owned 24.5% since 2021.
  • - Number of ARA agricultural biogas projects: 9 projects, including 1 in operation and 8 scheduled to start up in 2024.
  • - Production capacity per project: Approx. 1 MW of renewable electrical energy.
  • - Planned investment for development in Poland: Around €70 million.
  • - Suez biogas production in 2023: More than 2000 GWh.
  • - Suez biomethane production in 2023: 382 GWh.
  • - Suez has been present in Poland for almost 50 years with subsidiaries in water and wastewater management.
  • - Polish support framework for biogas: Guaranteed tariff for 15 years from 2023.
Battery recycling: Suez hopes to supply China's Envision gigafactory in Douai - 08/05/2024
  • Creation of France's first zero-emission battery industrial park.
  • Construction of a battery gigafactory with a capacity of 9 gigawatt-hours, representing an investment of 2 billion euros and the creation of 2,500 jobs by 2030.
  • In partnership with Eramet, Suez will develop a complex to recycle batteries and extract essential metals such as lithium, cobalt and nickel.
  • The battery recycling plant should be operational by 2027.
  • Suez sales in China: one billion euros.
  • Suez workforce: 40,000 people in 40 countries.
  • Global Suez sales in 2023: 9 billion euros.
Veolia's plan for growth in energy - 13/01/2024
  • The group already generates a quarter of its sales (just over 10 billion out of almost 43 billion euros in 2022) from the operation of heating networks, the recovery of energy from waste and wastewater, and energy-related services.
  • The Group, which has positioned itself in the field of "decarbonizing local energy", estimates that it will be worth 500 billion euros in Europe by 2030
  • Services related to energy efficiency in buildings and industry could represent a market worth 200 billion euros by 2030
  • Green energy supply and heating/cooling networks could be worth 150 billion euros by 2030.
  • The operation of heating networks is Veolia's main energy business (revenues of 5.9 billion euros in 2022),
  • Veolia operates more than 500 networks.
Veolia to sell its engineering subsidiary SADE - 27/11/2023
  • SADE's annual sales are expected to reach around 1.1 billion euros in 2022.
  • SADE employs around 6900 people.
Citeo and Suez start up France's second plastic packaging sorting facility - 28/10/2023
  • The Suez group and Citeo have invested 19 million euros in the conversion of a plastic packaging sorting platform.
  • 15 million euros were injected by Citeo and 4 million by the Suez group
  • The extension of sorting rules to all household packaging has been mandatory in France since January 1, 2023.
  • The over-sorting center in Epinal is designed to sort four main types of plastic: colored PET, opaque PET, PET trays and polystyrene.
  • 25,000 tonnes of plastic, mainly from the eastern part of France, should be over-sorted each year in Epinal.
  • The Epinal site is the second over-sorting center to be built in France, after Bourgogne Recyclage and before Environnement Massif Central, which is due to open in mid-2024.
  • The recycled plastics leaving the Epinal center will be recycled in France or in neighboring countries.
  • Starting in 2025, Carbios will process multilayer PET trays at its future Longlaville plant.
Valgo to extract perfluorinated pollutants - 30/08/2023
  • Specialist in the revitalization of polluted sites and soils Valgo has obtained a European patent for its innovative solution to extract per- and polyfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) from water
  • Valgo has sales of 130 million euros by 2022 and 700 employees.
  • Valgo plans to market its solution to local authorities from late 2023 or early 2024.

Companies quoted in this study

This study contains a complete overview of the companies in the market, with the latest figures and news for each company. :

Suez Groupe
Snadec
DI Environnement
Serfim Groupe - Serpol
Wig France Entreprises
Desamiantage France Démolition
Valame
Véolia Groupe
Valgo
Codepa (Livio groupe)
Ouest Contôle Environnement CICEA OCE
Baelen groupe 3DNext

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