Places to visit Industry Loire-Atlantique

Goubault's oldest printer, Goubault is no less at the cutting edge of technology. Since 1995, this company has been awarded the "green imprim" label thanks to intelligent management of its waste and the use of plant inks. A one-and-a-half hour tour at the heart of an impressive workshop, of printers passionate over the last four generations. This visit will particularly delight children.

This site visit shows the solutions of "sustainable development" found by Véolia cleanliness in order to respond to one of the greatest challenges: what do we do with our waste so that we don't with the planet? It is a two-hour journey to the country of waste proposed to you. The transformation of the latter into mineral, organic and energy resources will no longer have a secret for you thanks to the visits of the selective collection centre, the high-performance sorting centre, and the energy recovery unit.

Labelled since 1146 in the cartulaire of Saint Florent, the Forges Forges site is a former charcoal smelter operated in its current form since the th, but known for processing ore since the th century. Today it is a magnificent place, like any old metallurgical site, including a pond, a splendid house of master housing and operating buildings. It is very good for you to walk in fine weather and during the beautiful season, a walk with terrace welcomes you on the water side. It is absolutely imperative, if you want to know the techniques of this profession, now almost disappeared, to attend the animations during which a team of professionals will show you a demonstration, from the manufacture of the mould to the sand to the finished piece.

A soil rich in iron ore, a territory covered by forests and water favored the birth of metallurgy in the country of Châteaubriant in the seventeenth century. The Hunaudière forges, the site of La Forge Neuve… the beautiful houses of the master are the nostalgic remains of an industry that knows its apogee in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But the invention of the forged forge in English competition the metallurgy to wood. The use of coke in blast furnaces and the appearance of steel sound like the ice. In 1884 the last furnace, that of the Hunaudière, ceased its activity.