The pharmaceutical industry cluster

Founded in 2002, the historic heart of Polepharma can be found in Dreux, at the meeting point of the Centre, Parisian region and Normandy within Europe’s leading area for pharmaceutical production.
With France taking the lead in the European medicines production field, ahead of Germany and the UK, Polepharma is a mainspring for an economic sector full of potential.
20,000 jobs are estimated to be connected to pharmaceutical production, which accounts for 20% of the national workforce and a huge network of companies.

The sheer amount of big pharmaceutical firms based at Polepharma is a sign of this region’s European and international ambition and appeal.
Alongside the French company Ipsen, we have welcomed such international names as the American Bristol Myers Squibb, Danish Novo Nordisk and Léo Pharma, Greek Famar, British Norgine Pharma and Axcan Pharma from Quebec.

Polepharma is a vertical sector integrating the whole of the pharmaceutical production value chain, from process engineering to pharmaceutical dealers.

Such big names as Siemens, Festo and Bosch - Sigpack Systems have joined forces with Polepharma, along with myriad SMEs offering a wide variety of skills. Run by the CODEL, Polepharma is strongly supported by the local authorities (Eure-et-Loir County Council and Dreux Urban Area Community).

Over the last four years, over 300 million euros have been invested by Polepharma stakeholders to boost their performance and equip themselves with new weapons in a fiercely competitive economic environment.

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