Technopole – Forbach South

• Total surface : 115 hectares
• Available area: 2,8 hectare
• Surface area of the largest plot available: 1,5 hectare
• Rural area around the site
• Vocational high school in the north of the area
• Located 3km south of Forbach
• Direct access to the A32-E50 Metz-Sarrebruck highway
• 15 km from the German border

Water

• 600 m3 tower tank

Electricity

• Possibility of connection in very high or high voltage (63 or 220 KV)
• Medium voltage supply 20 KV
• Low voltage transformers installed in the area

Gas

• Proximity of a high pressure GDF transport feeder
• Gas supply to the site at a pressure of 4 bar

Sanitation

• Separative type. Water and industrial effluents must be treated before discharge
• Wastewater is discharged into the urban wastewater treatment plant of 25 000 Eq./inhabitant (10 000 Eq./inhabitant available)
• Rainwater is discharged through a 1200 mm diameter pipe into a basin and then into the Bousbach stream

Digital

• Fibre optic network

Roads

• Access via the 4-lane RD 31 bis Forbach-Sarreguemines
• Connection to :
  • the A4/A6 Paris-Metz-Frankfurt/Main motorways with links to Nancy, Lille and Lyon
  • the A8/A620 Stuttgart-Saarbrücken-Luxembourg-Brussels
  • the A4 motorway to Strasbourg and Basel

Airport

• Saarbrücken-Ensheim airport 20 km away (connections to major German cities)
• Metz-Nancy-Lorraine airport 60 km away (connections to the main French cities)
• Luxembourg-Findel International Airport 120 km away
• Strasbourg-Entzheim Airport 130 km away (connections to France and Europe)
• Frankfurt-Hahn airport 120 km away (European connections + international freight)

Railway

• East Paris TGV (high speed train). Connections to Paris and Frankfurt.
• Metz-Saarbrücken regional train line (half-hourly intervals)

River

• Canal des Houillères de la Sarre at Grosbliederstroff, 10 km away (300 T barges)
• Saar canalized to European gauge at Dillingen, 35 km away (Germany)

Accessibility on site

• Internal services with 12 m right-of-way (roadways and landscaped shoulders). Complete interchange on the Forbach-Sarreguemines expressway which runs alongside the site

Studies already carried out

• Preventive archaeology, impact study, environmental assessment, water law study, soil mechanics study, urban planning study

Main companies

• SEW USOCOME / CABLRERIES LAPP / HYDAC / VAN HEES / ELYSEE COSMETIQUES / BATIFER / MESURA / LABORATOIRES JUVA PRODUCTION / ALIZE PLANETE PUZZLES…