Economy of High-Normandy

Statistics

GDP in 2002: 41,5 billion euros
Unemployment rate: 10,5% (December 2003)
60% of the French production of the lubricants
50% of the plastics, 30% of the cars
the 4th French area for the foreign trade
the 1st area for the production of flax
the 6th area for research

By branch of industry

Structure of the GDP in 2003, expressed as a percentage of the active population:

primary: 2,3% secondary
: 36,1% tertiary
: 61,6 %

Primary sector

The agriculture of High-Normandy is diversified: south-east constitutes the prolongation of the cereal plate of the Beauce. The fields open (Openfield) and are specialized in the cultivation of cereals. The Country of Bray practices the bovine breeding, whereas the Country of Caux is turned towards the Polyculture: beets, cereals, flax, colzas occupy of the fields of size reduced beside meadows traversed by the milch cows. The large forests are in the valley of the Seine.

Secondary industry

History: with XVIIIe and XIXe century cotton-spinnings and the metallurgy develop, thanks to external capital.
At the XXe century, the area of the Basse-Seine accommodates automobile chemical plants, refineries and factories. The first industrial employer (6 000 paid in 2003) of the area havraise is the control Renault on the commune of Sandouville. The area havraise concentrates more of the third of the French capacity of refining. It ensures approximately 50 % of the production of basic plastics and 80 % of the additives and oils; more 3 500 researchers work there in laboratories private and public. The large multinational firms of chemical industry are present in Basse-Seine. In the agglomeration havraise, they are primarily located on the commune of Gonfreville Orcher: Exxon Mobil, TotalFinaElf, Esso, Hoechst, Rafter Oronite SA; but also in Sandouville such Goodyear chemicals Europe. With the crisis of the years 1970 and the delocalizations, industry lost employment in High-Normandy, in particular in naval construction (closing of ACH in 1999) and in the textile (Desgenétais factory of Bolbec, Delarue manufactures, Clarenson and Charles Houiller with Elbeuf).
Nuclear plants: Penly and Paluel
industrial Specialization: synthetic oil, chemistry, drug companies, parachimy, fibers, industry of glass, paper, car, electrical material and electronics.
an about sixty industrial facilities at the risk.

Tertiary sector

the proximity of the Ile-de-France limits the development of the tertiary sector (in particular higher tertiary sector), in spite of the attempts at decentralization. Thus, the universities high-Normans are relatively recent (Rouen in 1964, Le Havre in 1984).

Principal companies installed in Haute-Normandie==

CERP-Rouen (pharmacy)
Ferrero - France (food)
Co-operators of Normandy-Picardy (supermarkets)
Delmas (transport) in Le Havre
Davigel (food) Dieppe offranville
(nescafé, ricoré) agroalimentary (Dieppe) * Lubrizol France (chemistry)
Aircelle (aeronautical) in Le Havre
Mutant Distribution (distribution)
Sidel (equipment) with Octeville-sur-Mer
Editions Atlas (edition) with Évreux
Cape the Seine (food)
Valois (plastics)
Bayer elastomer (tires)
Carrier Transicold Industries (equipment) with Mount-Saint-Aignan
Peguform France (Rate innovation) (plastic) with Saint-Marcel close to Vernon
Savors of France Brossard (food), with the Neubourg
Draw up-Rand (equipment) in Le Havre
Devaux (work)
Novelis Foil France (metallurgy)
CIC Banks CIN (banks
SNECMA (Aeronautical Vernon)
Segafredo Zanetti Expresso France (Restoration) with Sotteville-the-Rouen; sit secondary at Ajaccio

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