01.12.2025
Equans France launches Equans Process Solutions: a brand crafted for industries with the most exacting processes
In a rapidly changing industrial landscape, Equans Process Solutions, an integrated organisation dedicated to the process industries, brings together complementary expertise to deliver bespoke solutions covering the entire industrial project life cycle. Our aim: make sites more efficient, safer, more flexible and more sustainable. This new entity targets the most strategic sectors – pharmaceuticals, battery manufacturing semiconductors, data centres and hydrogen – and supports their ambitions both in France and internationally.
Industry: navigating regulatory pressures and accelerated transformation
Rapid economic, technological, political and environmental shifts are putting significant pressure on industrial processes, making them far more complex. This transition is accompanied by a surge in regulatory requirements – whether stricter environmental standards, or greater demands for traceability, safety and compliance.
This is compounded by a certain economic instability driven by pricing pressures, resulting in a freeze on investments across several key industrial sectors in Europe. Despite ongoing efforts, France continues to face significant industrial challenges.
Manufacturing accounts for around 9.6% of GDP, far short of the 15% target set by public authorities under the France 2030 plan. In 2024, 114 plants opened while 119 closed — a net loss that underscores how fragile the sector remains amid regulatory, energy and geopolitical pressures.
An integrated, seamless approach for cutting-edge industries
The launch of Equans Process Solutions responds to multiple challenges, improving performance, safety and sustainability, and meeting the accelerating needs of industrial companies seeking sovereignty. With this new brand, manufacturers benefit from a partner who is a single point of contact, able to steer every phase of a complex project with agility and efficiency, whether it’s building an industrial site, overseeing a modernisation project or delivering a local-scale initiative.
Equans Process Solutions brings together key expertise: engineering (feasibility, design, project management and sustainable engineering), process equipment (equipment manufacture, installation and industrial transfer), utilities & process environment (clean & dry concept, speciality fluids & process, air treatment, HVAC, electricity and hydrogen), industrial services and maintenance.
Cutting-edge industries, marked by technical complexity and strategic significance, need seamless, integrated, end-to-end support.
That’s why Equans Process Solutions offers a comprehensive ‘design & build’ solution that frees manufacturers from the organisational constraints of complex project management, letting them focus with confidence on what really matters: their strategy and core processes.
This alliance goes beyond merely combining expertise and creates concrete operational synergies, reduces interfaces, ensures technical and operational continuity, and streamlines project management. Thanks to strengthened coordination, Equans Process Solutions enables shorter commissioning times without compromising safety, optimises technical performance and ensures firm control of budgets and schedules.
That’s how on a data centre project, Equans Process Solutions managed to dramatically accelerate construction through tight project management and committed teams: after 12 months for the first two buildings, the final one will be completed in just 8 months, while increasing installed capacity in MWh by 40%.
“ Designed to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, Equans Process Solutions offers bespoke solutions for industries in France and internationally. Our 2,400 dedicated colleagues work every day to make industrial sites safer, and more efficient; flexible and sustainable. ”
"For more than 30 years, Delpharm has earned a strong reputation as a manufacturer and developer of medicines, trusted by some of the most demanding clients in the industry. Every investment we make is strategic. That’s why we partner with multidisciplinary organisations who share our core values: reliability, flexibility and a commitment to quality.
That’s exactly what we found with Equans Process Solutions, who have been supporting us since 2020 on our sites in Saint-Rémy and Tours. The project began with in-depth study phases (detailed design, value engineering), before progressing to a full EPC delivery approach. Equans Process Solutions supported us across every aspect of the project: from industrial architecture to cleanrooms, including the integration of filling lines, utilities and energy systems, as well as civil engineering and structural steelwork studies.
With projects of this scale, unexpected challenges are inevitable. What we particularly value about Equans Process Solutions is their ability to deliver a holistic approach, blending technical expertise with a real commitment to practical solutions, through to full project completion. It is this rigour and commitment that make them a trusted partner, essential to the success of our operations", says Maxime Millet, Industrial Director at Delpharm.
Finally, as the value chain is being redefined on a global scale, Equans Process Solutions is deploying its expertise and local teams to support its long-standing clients with their international projects but also in the key sectors that are investing heavily.
As part of this approach, Equans Process Solutions co-founded, on 1st November, together with its local entity Kraftanlagen the joint venture Equans Process Solutions GmbH to meet the pharmaceutical sector's growing development needs in Germany. The name Equans Process Solutions embodies this ambition: a partner ready to meet the challenges of the industrial transition, in France and worldwide.
