For over a century now, our region's native industrialists have constantly driven our valley forward at the forefront of technology. This entrepreneurial spirit first became apparent in craft industries based on wood and horn-working, then in the key development of celluloid, and finally in the formidable era of plastics, a development which still gains strength.

It did not happen accidentally that an american journalist was struck by this land of ongoing innovation and immediately christened it "Plastics Vallée", comparing the spirit of the inhabitants to that of the legendary Silicon Valley in California