the asbestos removal market | France

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.