Sustainable tracks, organic yoghurts sold on board our trains, workwear for our agents or signposts for our stations: when working with our suppliers, we support a wide range of expertise and contribute to economic development in every region of France.

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A family-run business based in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Cepovett supplies our Group   with the protective workwear for our agents… using linen instead of cotton. It  took close to five years of R&D to bring this project, a world first, to fruition. As a result, the production has been relocated in Normandy, where Terre de Lin is in charge of making linen, later woven in Grand Est in the Tenthorey factory.

We've pioneered a circular economy initiative in in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in order to recycle the pieces of uniforms worn by public-facing employees. Used clothing is first sent to the Nouvelles Fibres Textiles plant in Amplepuis to extract fibres. These fibres are then delivered to textile makers Tissages de Charlieu in the Loire department where they are used to make new garments.

Over the next 6 years, Saarstahl will supply annually 170,000 metric tonnes of rails from its Hayange plant to SNCF Réseau. They’re made entirely of recycled steel produced in electricity-powered furnaces, a process which reduces carbon emissions by 70% compared to conventional methods, which rely on adding coal to iron ore.

For 90 years, French SME Fourchard has been doing construction work on SNCF Réseau sites. Here's an example of the kind of work they do, here renewing tracks and ballast near Reims. To this effect they used a tamping machine, the only one of its kind in France.

In the factories in Offranville are designed and manufactured our shelters and signposts, before being installed in our stations. Rousseau is committed to eco-design and uses recycled and recyclable materials to make its products.

The yogurts sold at the Bistrot TGV INOUI are produced in Loire-Atlantique by fromagerie Beillevaire, which has an eco-responsible approach and emphasizes the know-how of local producers. The milk used is thus produced less than 10 km from the site where it is processed.

Armox Lux has been supplying the emblematic outfits worn by our public-facing agents since 2007. Around 30 collaborators are working on the production of these pieces of clothing in the two workshops in Quimper. The textile company based in Brittany also relies on strong French industrial partners in order to manufacture certain elements of the 300,000 outfits made each year for the SNCF group.