Представители  Департамента сельского хозяйства московского офиса UBIFRANCE – Н.Штыкало, Глава Департамента и Л. Старостина, эксперт по развитию – посетили с рабочим визитом города Чебоксары (Чувашская Республика) и Казань (Республика Татарстан) 17 - 19 июля с.г.

Цель поездки - дать новый импульс развитию сотрудничества в области сельского хозяйства между двумя странами, а именно, изучить на месте условия и возможности для организации деловой поездки представителей французских компаний (преимущественно, работающих в секторах животноводства и сельскохозяйственной техники) в эти регионы в 2013 году.

Посещение сотрудниками UBIFRANCE местных предприятий и встречи с представителями  Торгово-промышленных палат и Министерств сельского хозяйства обеих республик подтвердили интерес делового сообщества и представителей власти к развитию взаимовыгодного сотрудничества и партнерских связей с Францией в области сельского хозяйства.

По результатам поездки и проведенных переговоров московский офис UBIFRANCE принял решение организовать в 2013 г. деловую поездку в Чувашскую Республику и Республику Татарстан французских специалистов, занятых в областях животноводства, мясопереработки, сельскохозяйственной техники и т.п. Сроки визита делегации, ее состав и программа будут сообщены дополнительно.

Заинтересованные лица могут обращаться по телефону +7 (495) 937 24 23 (контактное лицо – Л. Старостина).
 

Frankreichs Textilindustrie zeigt sich auf der Fachmesse Munich Fabric Start nach einem guten Jahr 2011 erneut optimistisch

Deutschland bleibt ein Schlüsselmarkt für die französische Textilindustrie: Letztes Jahr exportierte Frankreich Textilien in Höhe von 865 Millionen Euro nach Deutschland, insgesamt vier Prozent mehr als im Vorjahr. Die französischen Stoffexporte sind im gleichen Zeitraum um zwei Prozent gestiegen. Somit löst Deutschland den ehemaligen Hauptabnehmer Italien ab. Gleichzeitig stiegen die französischen Textilexporte in die Schweiz und nach Österreich um 18 Prozent, beziehungsweise um zwölf Prozent an. Diese positive Entwicklung spiegelt sich in den lebhaften und fröhlichen Kollektionen wieder, die auf der bevorstehenden Stoffmesse vorgestellt werden.

Insgesamt präsentieren 24 Hersteller von Bekleidungsstoffen und Zubehör ihre Herbst-Winter-Kollektion 2013/2014. Die französischen Aussteller haben in erster Linie mit der Farbe gespielt. Die Haupttendenzen in der Farbgebung unterteilen sich in vier Familien. Zur ersten gehört eine Reihe von sehr dunklen und satten Tönen (schwarz, dunkelgrau, grün, tiefblau, bordeaux-rot), die sich mit glitzernden Sprenkeln verbindet. Zur zweiten gehören winterliche Pastelltöne (helle Neutralfarben meliert mit leichten Einfärbungen von Grau- oder Grüntönen), die mit intensiveren Tönen harmonieren. Eine weitere Familie bildet das Naturbeige (Holz- und Korknuancen), das vermischt mit Mauve/Orange-Schattierungen sowohl ländliche als auch städtische Aspekte in sich vereint. Zur letzten Familie gehören lebhafte, sportliche Schattierungen (von Rosa über Rot zu Violett, elektrisierendem Blau  und Giftgelb), die eine spielerische Note hinzufügen und die Stoffe lebendig werden lassen.

Schwerpunkte bei Stoffen und Materialien
Zu den Materialien gehören dichte, aber weiche und elastische Zweischichtstoffe, Seiden-Duchesse, hochdichte Taftstoffe, Foamback und laminierte Stoffe. Auch reine und gecrashte Baumwolle spielen mit Dichte und Volumen, unterstützt von Elastan oder Polyamid. Eine edle Ausprägung haben die Plüschstoffe, Mischungen auf Angorabasis und samtigen Ausprägungen, die Wildleder imitieren (emerisierte und aufgeraute Stoffe, Kurzhaar-Velours). Stark vertreten sind ebenfalls fließende Stoffe mit Reliefstruktur (feine Granités, Crêpe-Stoffe), aber auch seidige Stoffe mit einem subtilen Glanz, wie Jacquard, Brokat, Stoffe mit Regenbogen- und Perlmuttschimmer sowie mit Bronze- und Kupfer-Beschichtungen. Schließlich sind Tweed- und Chiné-Stoffe und Misch-Formen sehr präsent. Entweder sind sie mit einem Hauch von Farbe durchsetzt und aus groben oder pelzartigen Garnen, die wie handgeknüpft oder -gewebt wirken, oder aus wertvollen, mit Metallfäden durchsetzten Garnen mit reichen, barocken Effekten.

Diskrete Designs und Ethno-Look
Bei den Designs spielt die Geometrie eine wesentliche Rolle, sei es in kleiner und diskreter Form (Hahnentritt, Tupfen, übererarbeitete Krawatten-Muster), oder in übergroßer Form als Umsetzung einer ethnischen Inspiration. In einer abgewandelten Version ist das Duo schwarz/weiß zurückgekehrt. Streifen und Karos stechen ebenfalls hervor. Sie werden neu angeordnet, scheinen sich zu bewegen, wechseln häufig von einer klaren Abgrenzung zur Unschärfe, um das Bild zu stören. Die Drucke zeichnen sich durch ein Nebeneinander- oder ein Gegenüberstellen von Designs aus oder setzen asiatische und südamerikanische Einflüsse um. Auffallend sind auch die Drucke, die wie Fotos wirken oder von Foulard-Mustern inspiriert sind. Immer wiederkehrend sind auch Blumenmuster in allen Varianten sowie Raubtier- oder Reptilienmotive.

Gelegenheit, neue Trends aus Frankreich zu entdecken, gibt es im Trendbereich im Eingang des Atrium 4. In den Studios F123 und F124 auf  der Ebene S1 befindet sich ein Bistro mit französischen Spezialitäten. 
 
Hintergrund
Die gemeinschaftliche Beteiligung der französischen Hersteller wird von Tisslaine-France Promotion in Zusammenarbeit mit Espace Textile und mit Unterstützung des französischen Staatssekretariats für Außenhandel sowie der Region Rhône-Alpes organisiert. Unter den französischen Ausstellern sind 15 Unternehmen aus der Region Rhône-Alpes. Weitere Informationen über die teilnehmenden Unternehmen gibt es auf der Webseite www.promotion-textile.com
 

27 Unternehmen stellen vom 4. bis 7. September auf der Fachmesse SMM ihre Technologien und Dienstleistungen vor

Die französische Marineindustrie besteht vorrangig aus KMU und bildet eine der wichtigsten Industrien des Landes. Sie beschäftigt über 300 000 Angestellte - und damit mehr als der Bankensektor. Allein die französische Schiffbau- und Schiffsreparaturindustrie beschäftigt 40 000 Personen und belegt europaweit den zweiten Platz. Der Produktionswert liegt bei 5,5 Milliarden Euro. Auf der Leitmesse für Schiffbau und Meerestechnik präsentieren die französischen Unternehmen ihr Angebot - von Systemen zur Bekämpfung der Umweltverschmutzung über Sicherheitsausrüstungen bis hin zur Fertigung von Schmiedestücken.

Frankreich verfügt über eine Küste von 5 500 km Länge. Aufgrund der günstigen geografischen Lage spielt die Schifffahrt eine entscheidende Rolle für den Außenhandel. Die französischen Häfen sind zudem an ein ausgezeichnetes Verbindungsnetz angeschlossen, das sie mit den Autobahnen, Fernverkehrsstraßen und Schienenwegen sowie mit den zentralen Wasserstraßen verbindet.
Die französische Schiffbauindustrie ist insbesondere im Bau von Linien- und Passagierschiffen, Flüssiggastankern oder Militärbooten. Im Repertoire französischer Werften und Ausrüstungshersteller befinden sich hochentwickelte Schiffe bis zu einer Länge von 400 Metern. Insgesamt vereint die französische Schiffbauindustrie die unterschiedlichsten Tätigkeitsfelder. So verfügt sie auch über ein ausgeprägtes Know-how im Offshore-Bereich, insbesondere bei maritimen erneuerbaren Energien.
Seit Juli 2005 gehören die Kompetenzcluster „Pôle Mer Bretagne“ und „Pôle Mer Provence-Alpes-Côte-D’Azur“ zu den international anerkannten Clustern. 295 Kooperationsprojekte wurden mit dem Label „Pôle Mer“ ausgezeichnet. Dabei flossen rund 784 Millionen Euro in die Forschung und Entwicklung.

Weitere Informationen gibt es in Halle B2.OG, Stand 100 - 104. Eine Übersicht über die unterschiedlichen Tätigkeitsfelder der französischen Unternehmen gibt es hier.
 

 THE other night I opened a couple of bottles of Cuvée Ste.-Anne, the nonvintage brut of the excellent Champagne producer Chartogne-Taillet, which I had recently purchased on the Upper West Side. What was immediately clear was not their similarities but their differences.

One wine seemed taut, austere and airy, as if you were licking rocks, or seashells. The other was broader, with a deeper, more resonant note. The family resemblance was strong, but these were siblings, not twins.

If I hadn’t seen the bottles, I might have assumed I was drinking two different Champagnes. In fact I was, as was confirmed by some helpful information I found on the back labels of each. At a glance I learned that both wines were 60 percent chardonnay and 40 percent pinot noir, and that while each was a blend of multiple vintages, 2007 was the predominant year. Then a significant difference: one bottle was disgorged in November 2011, the other in December 2010.

How meaningful was this information? Simply noticing it in the store would not have told me what to expect. It did not suggest one bottle would be fresher or better or more complex. Yet it did tell me that they would not necessarily be identical. Afterward, it let me interpret the experience, and over time it might allow me to calibrate my tastes and expectations. For me, the disgorgement and vintage information was added value.

Not everybody thinks that way: whether producers should provide such information is one of the more contentious issues in the famously closemouthed Champagne region right now. Wine writers and sommeliers tend to favor full disclosure and have been pressing their case. Antonio Galloni, who reviews Champagne for Robert M. Parker Jr.’s Wine Advocate, went so far this year as to announce that he would no longer review nonvintage Champagnes that do not list disgorgement dates.

Read the full article on the New York Times website, and follow us on twitter.

The three main groups of retailers in France are Carrefour, Auchan and Casino, and the three channels of business associates are Intermarché, E. Leclerc, Système U. French manufacturers of consumer goods, technology solutions for business, corporate marketing and merchandising companies, consumer credit companies, service providers (travel, gift boxes, mobile ...) are the providers of these large groups. They are therefore the key players for the international development.

The French Market Trend

• Reducing cost

• diversifying the offer

• Adopting a multi-channel strategy (or cross-channel)

• Reducing the retail space

• No more sign strategy but focus on brand strategy

• Internationalizing the French Business Model

The main Retailers are already present in 38 countries in Europe, America and Asia. 15 960 new private label products were introduced worldwide in 2009. However, Europe and the United States still represent around 93% of the market. Global sales of private label products represent more than 535 USD billion every year. Market share of private labels in terms of value, France (28.1%) is in 2010 the fifth largest in Europe after Switzerland, United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal.

Par : Rubrique Radar

La grande marque internationale de vêtements pour hommes, Celio, a inauguré le 26 juillet à 21 heures son magasin à Sidi Yahia à Hydra. A l’occasion de cette ouverture, au grand public, une remise exceptionnelle de 20 % est accordée sur la totalité des produits. Cette remise est valable du 26 juillet au 5 août. L’ouverture de ce premier magasin de cette célèbre marque est le fruit d’un partenariat triangulaire algéro-tuniso-français.

Source Liberté 

L’Office algérien interprofessionnel des céréales (OAIC) reconduit le contrat qui le lie à Control Union Inspections France (CUIF) pour le contrôle, la surveillance et l’agréage des céréales et dérivés et des légumes secs à l’embarquement sur les ports étrangers. Le marché, conclu pour une durée de deux ans, a été attribué sur la base d’une offre de 0,98 dollar/ TM (tonne métrique). En 2010, l’OAIC avait choisi le même opérateur pour la même mission, pour une durée de deux ans.

Source : TSA

Pellenc Selective Technologies (Pellenc ST), a manufacturer of optical-sorting machines for industrial and household waste, will take part in the Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition (RWM). The company will exhibit its solutions designed for materials recovery facilities (MRFs) and for sorting municipal solid waste (MSW). The trade show will take place from 11 to 13 September 2012 at the NEC, in Birmingham (UK).

Pellenc Selective Technologies (or Pellenc ST) designs, manufactures and markets optical-sorting machines for the sorting and re-use of household and industrial waste, from plastic to fibrous and organic waste. The company will exhibit at RWM in Birmingham (England) from 11 to 13 September 2012 (Stand 18M39).

The solutions supplied by Pellenc ST have a positive impact on plastic recovery in materials recovery facilities (MRFs) and in the plastic recycling industry, as well as in the sorting of municipal solid waste (or MSW, i.e. general household waste).

Pellenc ST’s machines use near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR), vision and induction technology, as well as sensors designed to work with fibrous and organic materials. Coming from a number of sectors — including packaging, automotive, computers, electronics and construction — once sorted, all materials can be re-used. Pellenc ST’s machines allow for the optimisation of re-usable-materials recycling to the tune of thousands of tonnes each year.

Pellenc ST has used its patented expertise in spectroscopy to produce the MISTRAL DUAL VISION — the specialist company’s new combined sorting machine for the detection of both material and colour.

This new sorting machine can sort families of materials by analysing both the type of resin and its colour. In one single operation, the MISTRAL DUAL VISION can separate three types of plastics in an MRF: light polyethylene terephthalate (PET), dark PET, and high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Applications that require simultaneous sorting of the material and the colour cover waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The plastic-recycling industry also relies on the separation of clear and light-blue PET and on the separation of white and clear HDPE.

Additionally, the MISTRAL DUAL VISION sorts PVC and polystyrene labels and sleeves in parallel with great accuracy, allowing for a PVC content of less than 10 parts per million (ppm) and eliminating other contaminants such as residual metal fractions.

MISTRAL DUAL VISION combines two technologies patented by Pellenc ST: infrared spectroscopy and colour spectroscopy. The two technologies work together, using the same pixels, and merge the data concerning the nature of the material and its colour. With the new Pellenc ST patented SPIN spectrometer, it is now also possible to select the optimum wavelength. Thanks to ultra-high-performance lighting and the high quality of the optical signal, all materials and colours are detected even right down to dark objects and those with little colour. Performance is significantly improved — with a gain of five to 10 points in performance — allowing for a resulting quality that is close to raw materials.

Optical sorting is essential for the recovery of re-usable materials in the waste stream for MSW. To meet recycling targets better and to continue to reduce the environmental impact caused by landfill and incineration, it is now important to take mixed waste into consideration. Although often considered unsuitable for re-use, residual household waste can now be processed effectively, recovering plastics, mixed paper and organic materials. This is thanks to the development of new technologies such as Pellenc ST’s optical sorting solutions.

In the MISTRAL range, Pellenc ST’s sorting machines for the recovery of re-usable materials are used both before and after the pre-fermentation stage. The company’s machines recover household packaging waste such as PET; HDPE and polypropylene (PP); food cartons; flat items (such as paper and cardboard); and, finally, plastic film.

For its part, MISTRAL BIO is a newly developed machine fitted with a dedicated sensor that recovers the waste’s biodegradable fraction with a high degree of purity, therefore optimising results for the sorting of MSW. Performance can reach 80% efficiency and 95% purity, with an output of 12 tonnes per hour.

The precision of infrared detection technology, featured in MISTRAL BIO, enables the elimination of all chloride fractions, such as PVC, which is unsuitable for waste streams intended for energy recovery, including refuse-derived fuel (RDF).

As manual sorting is used at the quality-control stage, after the stage where optical-sorting solutions are relied upon, these solutions also help to significantly improve production teams’ working conditions, especially on processes that concern residual household waste.

About Pellenc Selective Technologies

Founded in 2004, Pellenc Selective Technologies (Pellenc ST) is a pioneering company in the automatic sorting of household and industrial waste. The French-based company has over 140 employees, with 15% of the staff working in the R&D department. As part of its international expansion, Pellenc ST has installed 700 of its machines in more than 40 countries.

Pellenc ST will exhibit on Stand 18M39 at the Recycling and Waste Management Exhibition (RWM) at the NEC, in Birmingham (UK), from 11 to 13 September 2012.

For further information about RWM, please go to: http://www.rwmexhibition.com/

For further information about Pellenc ST, please go to:  http://www.pellencst.com/en

The odds are very good that the state of Massachusetts will end its annual legislative session without passing a direct shipping bill. The end of the 2012 MA legislative session is at 11:59pm on Tuesday July 31. Currently, H 1029, a bill that would partially legalize direct shipping in the state sits in the Consumer Protection Committee...dong nothing. For passage, the Committee will need to vote out the bill, then the bill needs to be voted upon in the House and Senate.

It has been since 2010 that the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Family Winemakers v. Jenkins that the current MA state wine shipping law was unconstitutional. Yet the lawmakers have been unable to pass any fix to that little problem.

The current bill received a hearing in May 2011, yet nothing has happened since.

The bill is in fact not a very good one. Under its provisions, consumers in the state would be prohibited from having imported wines shipped to them from out of state. That means no French, Italian, German, Austrian, Spanish or any other imported wines could be ordered by consumers since the bill does not allow out of state retailers to ship into the state. Rather, only out-of-state wineries would have the privilege. Wineries support this half-hearted bill.

Read the full article on Tom Wark Fermentation’s blog  and follow us on twitter.

Richel Serres is a true family success-story. When his cattle were seriously infected by aftosa in the 1960s, Christian Richel started an agricultural supplies wholesaling company. Quickly, while people were rushing into city centres, he understood the potential for greenhouse cultures and started his own business as a greenhouse producer. In the seventies, his son, who was at the head of the company when the second oil crisis begun, created a new double-partition plastic envelop for greenhouses allowing a 30% energy savings. The success was immediate and Richel Serres reached the restricted club of quality greenhouse suppliers. He started to export his production in 80 different countries with every engineers and representatives being recruited in France to relay, in a better way than a distributer, the firm’s know-how. Now the company is entirely based on this business model, as Christian Richel explains: “We have now 18 offices around the world. It costs a lot in salaries, but the services that we are able to offer to our customers are priceless: taylored-made design, follow-up of orders, supervision of assembly… Our local presence guarantees the delivery deadlines in an agricultural world where each minute counts”. Thanks to these offices, the firm can respond to major international calls for tender.

To produce in France is more expensive but for the owner, “when you relocate your production, you can’t supervise the supply chain, the quality of your subcontractors and the raw materials supplies as efficiently as we do thanks to our vertical organisation”. Consequently, Richel Serres choose to mechanise its production to reduce costs: with only 180 people, it generates a €65m turnover, being the world leader on this market.

This quality oriented strategy is strengthened with the buying of some major subcontractors to control its whole supply chain and therefore to be able to entirely build turnkey greenhouses. In addition, the firm continues to make large research investments to keep on being a leading actor in the market. And its location in France is the keystone of this winning strategy.

Source: “Serres Richel : automatisme à outrance”, Paul Molga, Les Echos, August 2012

CARTES 2012, the leading smart-technologies tradeshow covering security, payment, identification and mobility, will take place from 6^th – 8^th November 2012 at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition centre, Paris (France). The trade show will be the 27th CARTES event and will focus on INDIA as its special guest country.

With 143 countries represented, 430 exhibitors and 140 conferences led by international experts, CARTES 2012 is the key event for all those involved in the smart-technology market. The three days of the tradeshow will provide participants with the opportunity to combine networking with informative conferences, alongside retrospectives and original events. The two key themes chosen in response to current industry challenges that will be discussed at CARTES 2012 are - mobile payments and security in the cloud.

The mobile payment industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years. With a significant increase in the number of mobile banking applications, an unprecedented number of initiatives have been taken in the mobile payments field. The mobile phone is developing into a payment tool that will be used by a rapidly growing number of consumers, with increasing frequency in the future. The Mobile Payment Pavilion at CARTES 2012 will be specifically dedicated to mobile-payment stakeholders bringing together various players involved in mobile payments, such as bankers, telephone operators, telephone and payment-terminal manufacturers, service suppliers, aggregators and merchants.

Cloud computing has made it easier for companies to experiment and innovate and offers the possibility of being able to seamlessly change IT without wasting the time and money in setting up, configuring, and deploying new systems. Security is Cloud computing’s priority in 2012. The exponential growth of Cloud services and the proliferation of connected portable devices are an excellent reason to revisit the confidence, security and interoperability issues relating to increasingly mobile access to data, applications and services in the Cloud. Companies involved in the smart security industry and in IT security, their suppliers and their partners will exhibit in CARTES’ new area: Security in the Cloud.

On 5 November, the SESAMES Awards ceremony will take place. These awards reward the technical innovations that spearhead the chip-card, digital-security, secure-transactions, identification and contactless sectors. The SESAMES Awards are now deemed, by industry professionals, to represent uncontested global recognition for innovations in the smart-technology industry. On 6 November 2012, the World Card Summit will take place. This is the inaugural conference of CARTES 2012 that will be attended by senior executives from leading smart-technology and digital-security companies.

The Indian Pavilion will bring together leading players from the secure payments and identification systems market in India like Giesecke & Devrient, NXP, Gemalto, Infineon, Ingenico, Morpho among others, to meet suppliers and distributors from the global smartcards industry in attendance at the tradeshow and share their technical expertise. They will also present their latest technological innovations to the key influencers and decision makers of the Indian industry who will visit the tradeshow. A series of conferences and seminars will be organized where representatives of the Indian smartcards industry would highlight the recent developments and the growth potential for digital technologies in India. On the last day, a ‘networking soirée’ will be organized to facilitate business encounters and will also offer a large variety of Indian culinary delights.

With the launch of national financial inclusion and biometric identification projects, India demonstrates a huge development potential in the field of digital security technologies. This industry owes its growth to the recent initiatives taken by the Government of India like the “Aadhaar project” launched by the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) in November 2010 which identifies individuals uniquely on the basis of their demographic information and biometrics. This has given every individual the means to clearly establish their identity to public and private agencies across the country. The NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) has recently launched “RuPay”, a domestic card scheme which is said to be the Indian equivalent of Visa or MasterCard. It offers an indigenous, cheaper alternative to these card-based payment systems. Likewise, other initiatives include the introduction of electronic driving license, e-passports, health cards and so on.

India’s mobile-phone industry inspires great hopes. India prospects to become the second largest mobile broadband market globally within the next four years. India is the second largest SIM card market in the world, after China. These statistics have emerged as a significant predictor of many mobile payment services being launched like Obopay, Paymate, iMobile. The NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India) has also developed IMPS (Interbank Mobile Payment Service) which offers an instant, interbank electronic fund transfer service through mobile phones.

India is among the world’s fastest growing smart card markets. As a number of applications can be integrated into smart cards, there is huge potential for its development in India. CARTES 2012 looks forward to provide a unique platform to Indian companies to present their expertise in the field of digital security to leading players from the global smartcards industry and forge business partnerships for future projects.

To get latest updates on the trade show:

-          follow us on Twitter "@_cartes" and on our blog www.blogcartes.com
-          visit our website: www.cartes.com

Press contact : Actifin cartes@actifin.fr

About CARTES

The CARTES network is made up of the leading international and regional exhibitions and conferences devoted to smart technologies. It was founded in Paris (France) in 1985 and has grown to become one of the world’s leading events on security and payments.

CARTES events are organised by COMEXPOSIUM, the leading French-based professional trade-show organiser that offers a high level of service and premium quality standards for both exhibitors and visitors.

Intersolar North America successfully concluded its fifth event in the largest solar market in the U.S.  Co-located with SEMICON West, more than 18,000 visitors from 76 countries attended free exhibition workshops and conference presentations, and viewed the latest products and services from exhibitors on four floors of the Moscone Center in San Francisco, on July 9^th -12^th , 2012. On this occasion, UBIFRANCE USA was hosting a delegation of French leading solar companies and organized personalized B2B meetings to provide participants the opportunity to meet with potential partners and clients. In addition to networking with the Cleantech community, Ubifrance team prepared a highly insightful seminar to educate the companies in their market approach in the U.S. Participants had the opportunity to learn how to present their technologies in front of a jury of American professionals, as well as making many valuable connections. Panelists composed of entrepreneurs, lawyers and major actors in the Cleantech sector animated a very relevant and mind opening interactive discussion.

This year’s exhibition and conference focused on the entire system of solar technology—from advances in solar module and cell technology to balance of system components to energy storage—as well as the practical applications of new solar technology. Despite concerns over market consolidation and the changing incentive landscape, the mood of the show was optimistic, as the U.S. solar market is on pace to beat industry expectations for new installed capacity in 2012 and add more than 3.3 GW of new solar installations, according to EuPD Research.

After this successful first chapter of the Cleantech Tour 2012 in San Francisco, UBIFRANCE USA is looking forward to welcome participants for the next part of the Tour in Boston & Chicago,  October 15^th- 19^th.

For more information, please visit the USA CleanTech Tour website, and follow our Trade Advisors on twitter @CleanTechTour for the most up to date information.

The results coming from the common Research & Development Laboratory of Renault and CEA in the sector of the new generation batteries for electrical vehicles enable to enter immediately the phase of preparation for the industrial production of such batteries, by early 2017, on the national territory and with the cooperation of the Korean battery producer LG Chem, one of the worldwide market leader.
By participating in the setting up of a battery plant LG Chem in France, Renault and the CEA bring proof of France’s capacity to develop, by her investment in innovation, worldwide industrial partnership carrying key technologies for future energies.

UBIFRANCE is proud to announce the 7^th edition of the French Biotech Tour. It will be held in San Francisco and San Diego in October 2012. For this edition, we will explore the theme:  Immunology, Inflammation and Neurology. 

For the first time, we will organize 2 different business events:

- In San Francisco on October, 16^th (in partnership with BayBio)

- In San Diego on October, 18^th (in partnership with French Bio Beach)

Join us and our French delegation of biotech companies to discuss partnership and collaboration opportunities.

For more information, contact us

Retailers and food companies are realizing it makes business sense to address the needs of millions of people who cannot tolerate gluten, a protein found in wheat and some other grains. Gluten-free versions of many foods are usually expensive, but sales are soaring.

Two-and-a-half years ago, Pam Hildebrandt of Roseville stopped eating or using anything that contained wheat or other grains with gluten. Or at least she tried to. "I get very sick when I have the smallest amount," she said.

Hildebrandt is gluten-intolerant, as are her youngest son and father-in-law. That means they cannot enjoy the bread, pizza, pasta, cakes, cereal and many other foods that most people take for granted -- not if the foods contain wheat or other grains. "Wheat is everywhere," Hildebrandt said. "It’s amazing. My lip balm had wheat in it."

So Hildebrandt does a lot of shopping here at Tailor Made Nutrition in Woodbury. The small store stocks about 4,000 packaged and prepared foods free of gluten, far more than most stores carry.

"The main reason we put this together was to really address the growing need for a wide selection of healthy gluten-free foods," said Mark Norman, one of the owners of the store, which opened about four years ago. "We saw an explosion in referrals from practitioners who put their patients on gluten-free diets."

But Hildebrandt says mainstream grocers are also stocking more things she can eat. "Gluten-free foods have become a lot more available," she said. "Some of the major companies have got into it. You can find things in regular grocery stores, at Target and elsewhere."

Medical experts say many, perhaps most, people giving up gluten at this point have no medical reason for doing so. They’re just following a fad diet. By some estimates, that may be as many as 35 million people.

But the diet is medically essential for people who can’t tolerate the protein -- at least 7 percent of Americans. More people are learning they cannot eat gluten as physicians become better at detecting when the ingredient is making patients sick. That’s giving food businesses confidence that demand won’t fade after the fad does.

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The French retailer The Kooples will enter the American market in September, thanks to its collaboration with the department store Bloomingdale’s in New-York. The Kooples opted to open in-store concessions model instead of its previous idea of settling an own-brand store, as it operates in Europe. The brand, which knew a slow-down of its 24 stores and its dozens of concessions in the UK, is being more cautious with the U.S. market. Thus, 7 in-store concessions, 5 for womenswear and 2 for menswear, will open in 5 of the Bloomingdale’s stores in the Big Apple, including those in Soho and on 59th Street.

Source: Fashionmag, July 30th

This year, the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FACCI) is launching its first inaugural Business Awards.

It will recognise business performance, community engagement and cross-cultural integration in the following categories: Patron Members, Corporate Members and Small Business Members of the FACCI.

FACCI Members are invited to vote online for their favourite organisation until the 30 of August 2012. The organisation with the most votes will be presented to a panel of judges made up of key actors in the French-Australian Business Community including Eric Berti (French Consul in Sydney), Bruno Tessier (Country Director, Ubifrance), Owen Coughlan (Partnership and sponsorship Manager at NSW Business Chamber),Bruno Gutton (Federal President of the FACCI), Pierre Maciejowski (FACCI NSW President).

This panel will name the Patron, Corporate and Small Business Member of the Year will be held during our annual Gala Dinner on the 25th of October 2012 at the Sergeant’s Mess in Mosman.

The Gala is the highlight of FACCI social calendar and traditionally brings together French Businesses to celebrate the dynamism and success of the Community.

For more information, visit http://www.facci.com.au/facci-events/upcoming-events/vue-detail/?tx_obladycal_pi2%5Buid%5D=5407&cHash=af552fb9464451e2b66b729f4828dd59.

About the French-Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
FACCI is a non for profit organisation, created in 1899, that aims to develop and strengthen links in the French-Australian Business Communities.

Contact
Julia Lecomte / Victoire de Larquier
Email: nsw@facci.com.au
Tel: 9279 4140
Website: www.facci.com.au

北京时间2012年6月18日天津：AXON和DRAKA FILECA 宣布将在中国合作生产经营高技术电线电缆，为中国航空产业竭诚服务。

为跟进中国诸如C919,J16,J20,Z18等大型飞机制造发展项目，AXON 和 DRAKA FILECA 决定联手在中国广东佛山共同生产经营航空高技术电缆。

聚酰亚胺/聚四氟乙烯复合绝缘绕包电线电缆性能优良,广泛使用于现代化飞机，其用户包括空客，欧洲航天防卫，达索，欧战，欧直等知名制造商。

其优点主要在于：

• 复合绕包型电缆长期承受的使用温度可高达260°C. 而挤出型电缆仅为150°C。
• 复合绕包型电缆较挤出型电缆具有更好的机械力学抗力，从而提高布线工艺的可靠性。
• 复合绕包型电缆较挤出型电缆能减重10%,在空客A320可因此总体减重200公斤。
• 复合绕包型电缆较单一聚酰亚胺绝缘绕包电缆具有更好的抗电弧和抗湿性能。

DRAKA FILECA 是普睿司曼集团旗下的一家法国公司，生产经营高端电缆和光缆。

AXON是一家全球性运营的法国集团公司，主营包括航天航空领域的高技术电连接组件。

如需更多信息，可与下列地址联系：
法国亿讯广东分公司
联系人：Sean LOW
电话： +86 757 2838 7200
传真：+86 757 2838 7212
电子信箱： s-low@axon-interconnect.com

随着国际影响力的不断飞跃，2012年的9月23日至25日期间中国国际集约化畜牧展（VIV CHINA）将迎来其第七届展会。届时，会有十家法国饲养设备领域的企业参加展览。为了更快更好的满足中国生产者们日益增长的需要，这十家企业将在展会期间向来自全中国的专业人士介绍他们的设备以及专业技能。

对于中国畜牧领域的生产者来说，法国一直扮演着重要的角色，尤其是在饲养领域使用的设备、质量追溯系统、屠宰机器和试验室技术领域，其中也包括牛、家禽和猪的基因研究技术。法国在农业机械和饲养设备出口方面世界排名第五位，在中国的供货商当中排名第十五位（资料来源：2011年全球在线贸易数据库），有能力满足中国不断增长的需求。

中国在饲养领域已成为世界领先国家，其家庭肉食需求也大幅度增长。二十年来，畜牧产量年均增长近百分之八，因此，中国的饲养行业在很多方面都在寻求国际上的专业支持。在禽类饲养和养猪领域，中国在饲养房舍和系列设备方面有很大的需要，尤其寻求在动物基因、屠宰和质量追溯方面的支持。中国饲养者还对动物营养和健康，以及疫病防治方面的专业知识很感兴趣。

法国企业国际发展局组织的法国展团将携十家法国企业来参加展览会。对于这些企业来说，中国国际集约化畜牧展览会将是一个很好的机会，使他们可以展示以下创新技术和产品：

 饲料方面的创新技术和产品：谷物的营养成份，奶制品，生物制品，饮食营养添加剂，等等。
 禽类饲养和养猪专用设备：孵化设备，脱毛设备，处理和屠宰设备，饲养房舍采暖系统，液体剂量泵，等等。
 动物卫生和健康技术：卫生产品（地面干燥设施、消毒设备，水的净化设备，等等），以及兽医产品（药品，疫苗，康复食品，营养产品，比例剂量设备，等等）。
 动物繁殖产品和服务（家禽，猪）。

今年，展览会开幕前一天（9月22日）还将组织题为“中国国际峰会”（INTERNATIONAL CHINA SUMMIT）的报告会。法国养猪研究所（IFIP）将在报告会上发言，介绍法国对养猪行业的管理以及法国在质量追溯方面的专有技术。

参加2012中国国际集约化畜牧展览会的法国企业名单：

 ACEMO (W2展厅 – P041展台): Acemo 公司在饲料行业是欧洲领先企业，从事饲料的生产和销售。该公司在粮食贮藏和通风设备领域也是欧洲领先的公司。 (公司网站：www.acemo.com).

 AGRITEl (W2展厅– P047展台): 这是一家农业和农业食品价格风险管理领域的专业咨询公司 (公司网站：www.agritel.fr).

 BAYLE (W2展厅– N040展台): 这是一家有着八十年历史的家禽处理和屠宰设备领域的专业公司 (公司网站：baylesa.fr).

 COOPERL (W2展厅– P043展台): 这是一家农业合作社，专门从事符合集约化农业生产经营要求的生猪养殖和屠宰(公司网站：www.cooperl.com).

 DOSATRON (W2展厅– P039展台): Dosatron 公司在中国销售其产品已经有二十年的历史，专门从事液体泵和比例剂量器的研制和生产。(公司网站：www.dosatron.com).

 ETS CHABEAUTI SAS (W2展厅– N042展台): 该公司是法国养兔专用设备的生产和安装的领先企业（兔类繁殖及幼兔培育笼等等），也是家禽类饲养设备的领先企业（填喂笼，食槽，产卵窝，等等）(公司网站：www.chabeauti.com).

 FRANCEXPORC SERVICES (W2展厅– N046展台): 这是一家专门从事种猪出口的法国公司（提供大白，兰德拉斯，皮特兰等等种猪），可以通过海、陆、空三种运输方式送货 (公司网站：francexporc.free.fr).

 LA BUVETTE (W2展厅– P045展台): 经过50年的奋斗，目前La Buvette 公司可提供不同系列的饮水和食槽，分别可提供给奶牛、乳牛、绵羊、马、猪、山羊等牲畜 (公司网站：www.labuvette.fr).

 LESAFFRE FEED ADDITIVES (W2展厅– N052展台): 该公司是饲料和营养添加剂市场上的一家重要公司(公司网站：www.yeast-science.com/company).

 SUN SYSTEL (W2展厅– P049展台): 这是一家专门生产动物饲养房舍采暖设备的公司 (公司网站：www.systelinternational.fr).

如需更多信息，请访问网站：
www.ubifrance.fr
www.programme-france.fr

新闻联络：
Emmanuel POLLET
项目负责人
饲养和渔业、动物遗传设备及用品
77, Boulevard Saint-Jacques
75014 Paris
电话： +33 (0)1 40 73 33 62
电子信箱： emmanuel.pollet@ubifrance.fr
  Vincent HEIN
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法国驻华大使馆商务处
亮马桥天泽路60号第三使馆区,
中国北京，朝阳区，邮编100600
电话： +86 (0)10 85 31 23 54
电子信箱： vincent.hein@ubifrance.fr

法国企业国际发展局（UBIFRANCE）是由法国经济、财政和工业部，负责外贸出口的国务秘书处，以及国土总局监管的公共工商机构，给法国企业的国际发展提供帮助。现在法国企业国际发展局在四十六个国家拥有六十六个商务处，形成了法国企业国际发展局在全世界的网络，共有近一千四百名工作人员分布在法国和其他国家，致力于支持法国企业在国际上的发展。

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 The automobile support program presented Wednesday 25^th of July by the French government relies on a reinforcement of the bonus/malus system and a public procurement focused on energy-efficient vehicles.

Thus, the maximum financial grants will be 7 000 euros for electrical vehicles and 4 000 euros for hybrid vehicles. The bonus for internal combustion vehicles with low CO2 emissions will be raised from 100 to 150 euros, depending on the cases. Currently, the sales of electrical vehicles remain limited at 0,12% of the market, the gasoline hybrid at 0,58% and diesel hybrid at 0,12%.

The second line of this program is based on an elicitation to procurement contracts purchasing this type of vehicles. The bonus/malus system will be extended to public buyers. At least 25% of the public vehicles purchased by the State shall be electrical or hybrid.