Work in Roanne

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    Roanne’s Arsenal from 1917 to 2018

    Roanne’s Arsenal: French military industrial group, situated in Roanne in the department Loire.
    Created: in 1917 in the context of the World War I.
    On October 13th 1916 the Undersecretary of State in the armament, Albert Thomas decided to proceed to the construction of an arsenal on the municipality of Roanne.
    The objective: increase the production in shell and cannon of big calibre.
     

    Why built in Roanne?

    It is a zone far from the front = no danger
    The transport is done by the river and also by the railroads 1 300 hectares of ground for the arsenal
    150 million franc budgets for the construction
    The Employees were voluntary but there were also war prisoners (approximately 1 200 employees)
    Nowadays Nexter took over

     NEXTER Group-leader of the army

    Nexter: based in 1973 by the industrial grouping of the ground armaments (GIAT).
    Creation: ground armament Head office: Versailles, Yvelines (78) in France
    Staff: 3 323 employees
    Production: vehicles of fight as the AICV, the tank Leclerc, the truck CAESAR. The ministry of the army conceives and produces new vehicles such as the VBMR (armored vehicles multi-roles), and the EBRC (armored vehicle of gratitude and fights)

    The Tank Leclerc

    Why the tank carries its name?
    During World War II Marshal Leclerc lands in Normandy in June, 1944.
    He landed with his tanks to go to free the city of Paris occupied by German. It is the tenth armored division which frees Paris thanks to its tanks.
    Nowadays, the tank Leclerc is the best tank of the world, its engines are stored in Mill on the thirteenth base of the support of the equipment. The tank is assembled in Roanne.
    This modern tank integrated the last generation of shootings. It’s the only tank in the world that can fire by moving and by reaching its target.

    Future Project

    We know now that the Scorpio program will be born in 2021 for a delivery in 2025. The Secretary of the army plans to produce 400 VBMR (vehicles Blindes Multi Roles) for our army after his visit which took place on Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

    ​The textile industries of Roanne

    The textile activity is a part of the DNA of  Roanne’s territory. From the Middle Ages, the farmers-weavers spin and weave the linen and the hemp. The numerous streams are also an asset : they offer an energy essential to the functioning of textile factories and an ideal purity in the dyers. The boom of the textile industry arises finally from the closeness of the silk manufacturers Lyonnais(inhabitant of Lyon,inhabitants of Lyon) which find in the Inhabitant from Roanne a skilled labor.
    Since then, the tradition stayed, the Inhabitants from Roanne freed themselves from the supervision of Lyon and today, several companies create high-quality fabrics which we find.

    Roanne until the beginning of the XIXth century is especially a city of storekeepers. Then, it becomes the homeland of the weaving. The post-war year strengthens this vocation and, from 1950s, the hosiery supplants the weaving. Roanne becomes then the second capital of the French stitch, behind Troyes.
    - In 1953, one account 9 700 employees in the sector of the weaving, against 18 000 in 1927. Staff are important, but they decrease year by year while the production remains more or less stable thanks to the technical progress.
    In the hosiery, on the other hand, jobs increase, to reach 9 800 people in 1954. Most of the time, it is about small workshops counting four or five workers. There are hundreds  of them.Their production represents 10 % of the sales of

    The textile(textile industry), it is also the emergence of the captains of industry, the very active families in the social life. The big names of the weaving are then Déchelette, Bréchard, Delorme, Gouttenoire or Deveaux. The important hosieries carry the claw of Prost, Devernois, Dallery, Pierron or Griffon.
    Many companies and businesses bound to the textile industry become established in the region: workshops of subcontracting, dry cleaner's. Roanne becomes a real pole of the textile industry. The manufacturers of machines, the famous ARCT (from Roanne Workshops) of textile construction, prosper. France-rayon, specialist of the man-made fiber made from wood pulp, becomes the biggest factory of Europe in this domain, with 800 employees.

    For the huntresses of bargains and the addicts of the shopping, you should not miss the numerous organized sales of factory all year round:
    · Gil' B - ready-to-wear clothing - to ROANNE in Mars and in October
    · Le petit baigneur - ready-to-wear clothing - to ROANNE in April
    · Les folies textiles - ready-to-wear clothing - to ROANNE in April and November
    · Les grandes ventes at Le Scarabée - ready-to-wear clothing - to RIORGES in April and October
    · Chassagnard - Ready-to-wear clothing - to RIORGES in April and November
    · Devernois and Yves Delorme - ready-to-wear clothing - in the HILLSIDE in April and November
    · Mado Marcel - Ready-to-wear clothing - to NEAUX in April and November

    · Rose Pomme - ready-to-wear clothing - to RIORGES in May and October
    · Le marathon des bonnes affaires Griffon & Mervil Christian Cane - ready-to-wear clothing - to ROANNE in May and November
    · Rodam and Carole Grey – ready-to-wear clothing – in Roanne between May and November