The assets of the territory
 
Before...
Up to the C19th every village had many craftsmen (clog makers, coopers, blacksmiths, saddlers, etc.).
Over the years, these small traditional units increased (forging plants, brickyards, tile works, etc.), Women and girls worked at home for a hosier from a nearby town.
But these ways of working developped and the centres of production moved in the bigger towns.
 
 
...today :
Small and medium sized industrial and crafts firms are the most numerous in the territory:
- on average 8 employee per factories,
- 100 establishments with more than 50 employees
-4 establishments with more than 100 people.
 
Certain important sectors are easily identifiable
  based on resources from the territory
These are the wood related businesses (sawmills, forestry, industrial joineries, carpenters, furniture makers, etc.)
There is also the food industry here.(production of flour in the region of Brienne - L e- Château)

•a base of specific skills: firms in the textile industry follow in the tradition of Troyes as a knitted wear centre, metallic joinery firms have also developed specific skills.
 
Leading European firms in the Forêt d'Orient Regional Nature Park!

Firms such as ALLIA, European leader in sanitary ware, or VERMONT SA, first world producer of glass for bulbs tinted in the mass has installed in the territory of the Park. Innovative firms such as Creation Richard, in Vendeuvre - sur - Barse, specializing in the creation of metal furniture , or Guilleminot SA in Lusigny - sur - Barse whose specialty is ironwork (steel staircase for Modern Art museum in Troyes).

How to get to the Park
 
The territory of the Park is served by many different means of conveyance :
three motorways interchanges (A 5 and A 26)
an important railway link: the line Paris - Basel (6 round-trips per day)
the road links form a circulation belt completely without problems of frost.
an airfield (Brienne-Le-Château)
an international freight airport (Europort at Vatry) close to the Park
less than two hours from Paris,
less than two and a half hours from Lyon
And further more...
The territory of the Forêt d'Orient Regional Nature Park has to obey the same rules as unclassified territories. The guidelines orients the territories in their future vocations and thus guides local decision-makers. No other rules control the territory and its inhabitants. There is no supplementary control for the installation of firms in the territory.
Just as the 44 other territories classified as Nature Parks, the Forêt d'Orient Park benefits from a preserved and exceptional environment, source of daily well-being.
 
A reasoned waste management programme
 
The intercommunal organization of the Park, through its Hygiene Service, has been taking care of the collection of household refuse in more than 50 villages for several years.
In the year 2000, four waste collection centres were opened in the territory of the Park. The organization of waste sorting will complete this set of measures.

Thus, for the inhabitants, as well as the tourists, hygiene and the environment are being well taken care of , without forgetting the recycling and the development of certain recoverable waste, source of savings on the one hand and a limiting of the many tons to be buried in the technical centres on the other hand.
 
   
 
 
 
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