The Occitanie Region formalizes the arrival of two companies at the Michel Chevalier Business Park

Le Montpelliérain Abdel Bachiri fondateur de HB BAT a symboliquement coupé le ruban devant ses nouveaux bâtiments en construction avec les élus de la Région et du Lodévois Larzac. Midi Libre – ALAIN MENDEZ

Héroclès (Lodève) and HB BAT (Montpellier) have found the ideal natural setting to expand and develop in the Bosc economic zone, south of Lodève. .

The Region and the Lodévois Larzac community of communes which manage the Michel-Chevalier Regional Economic Activity Park in Bosc formalized this Tuesday morning the arrival of two new companies joining the cardboard industry Ondupack and Autocars Pons already installed on the site.
A local, Héroclès, a carpenter and installer in Lodève who laid the first stone, the other HB BAT who builds metal structures with photovoltaic panels in Montpellier. Both found, along the A75 motorway, the ideal natural setting to develop their activities.

Two family stories

"We have been in business for ten years, says Jérémy Allegre who manages Héroclès with his partner Oriane Bouquier, both living at Mas Lavayre nearby. We have our offices in the premises of Paganoni Bois in Lodève which we will keep. We work on Lodévois Larzac, on the Gignac and Clermont-l’Hérault side and we were looking for a place to expand. To develop our activity there, with a mirror-making component and rent modular cells to craftsmen. In a magnificent setting for working, accessible for deliveries, central and close to us."
While Kelyan, aged 15, is starting a CAP Carpenter and Installer with a view to joining his father's company, Héroclès should hire an 8th employee at the start of the school year. " And we hope to have our new building of 800m² early 2025."

Lodévois Jéremy Allegre with his partner Oriane Bouquier and his son Kelyan laid the first stone on one of the plots of the park. Free Midi – ALAIN MENDEZ

Not far from there, the HB BAT warehouse has already been built. With an area of ​​2000m², it will produce 300 kilowatts of peak electricity production thanks to solar panels on its roof, and will also house the offices of the Montpellier company. ;by the end of the year.

“Installations will speed up”

The formalization of the installation of two new companies delights local elected officials and the Occitanie Region which has a Michel-Chevalier park where ;ugrave; she already has invested 24 M€.

"25 % of the area is actioned, 40 % on track to commercialize this beautiful park"  indicates Jalil Benabdillah, vice-president   The Region's economy came a year ago to visit the site, meet elected officials and see how to remove the brakes on the installations. To finally accelerate its marketing. "This park has a history, a past. Today, there is the will to elected officials to welcome companies that meet the challenges in terms of sustainable development, ecological transition, and society. " Comment confirmedé by the regional advisor president of the Park Fadelha Benammar-Koly."We could fill it by doing anything, it’s not our choice. We want this park to have meaning for the business leaders who choose to come there, their employees, the territory in a superb environmental setting, that it is created in a unique way. creator of jobs and wealth. At the same time, we are working locally on mobility, its accessibility and accessibility. from Lodève, the training."

"Work pays, we're finally moving forward. Two companies arrive, others will follow. À us to support them so that they can integrate and participate in the world. the attractiveness of and the development of our territory." declares J&rôome Valat, mayor of Bosc. "It’s a great satisfaction. Things are accelerating and I am convinced that the first tranche will be occupied in a few months. This park is a real asset and a real hope for Lodévois and Larzac." also notes Jean-Luc Requi, the president of the community of communes.

"I created the family business, specializing in renewable energies with my brothers in 2014", specifies Abdel Bachiri who employs around twenty employees at HB BAT. "We build metal buildings with solar panels, to make the cost of the work profitable and produce energy. energy in connection with Enedis, continues the manager who found the ideal setting south of Lodève to take his company to a new level. Here, there are space for storage, logistics, assembly and preparation. In a magnificent, natural landscape which corresponds to our ecological approach."

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