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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. The market, which today numbers around a thousand establishments, operates in a highly regulated context, due to the hazardous nature of asbestos.
Asbestos, a noxious silicate mineral, presents significant health risks, particularly in buildings constructed before it was banned. Asbestos removal mainly concerns asbestos concrete (80%).
Asbestos removal services are exhaustive and rigorous, requiring dust removal, containment, extraction, quality control and waste destruction.
Companies have seen their EBITDA fall from around 11% to just over 6% in the space of seven years. The introduction of stricter legislation has resulted in higher operating costs for certification, protection and training, without a commensurate increase in the fees charged to customers, eroding margins.
Asbestos removal robots could revolutionize the sector by reducing labor costs and health risks.
The construction, demolition and industrial sectors are the main consumers of asbestos removal services, accounting for half and a quarter of business respectively. Asbestos removal is also benefiting from new markets such as ship and train dismantling.
The asbestos removal market is relatively mature, and is expected to stabilize at around €1.1 in sales.
The market's potential is enormous, as many buildings are still waiting to be dismantled.
Players in the asbestos removal market
Players in the sector include major construction groups, leaders in environmental services and specialist asbestos removal companies.
- 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 in the field of environmental sustainability and waste management. Their foray builds on their core competencies in environmental services, ranging from waste management to water treatment.
- Asbestos removal specialists
The market also includes pure specialists such as Snadec, DI Environnement, Serpol, Wig France Entreprises and DFD. These companies offer tailor-made services and focus on asbestos decontamination, positioning themselves as experts in this niche field. 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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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.
Veolia aims to triple recycled water production worldwide - 03/07/2023
- Veolia is committed to tripling its production of recycled water by 2030, bringing it to 3 billion m3 in the long term.
- The group produced 1 billion m3 of recycled water last year, equivalent to the annual consumption of 18 million people.
- Veolia has 250 water recycling sites in 18 countries.
- Worldwide water recycling is estimated at just 11%.
- Wastewater reuse rates reach 89% in Israel, 40% in Singapore, 15% in Spain and less than 1% in France.
- The potential for wastewater reuse in France is 1.6 billion m3.
- Veolia acquired additional expertise in membrane filtration through its takeover bid for the Suez group.
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