Head office
125 Av. de Paris
92320 Chatillon
France
Industry typology
Metallurgy
Hydrometallurgy
Mining
Metal recycling
Product typology
Cobalt
Lithium
Manganese
Nickel
Uranium
Rare earth
Groups
ORANO
Certifications
Annual revenues
€4 million (800)
Company Headcount
17 500
APE
Orano intends, through its activities, to contribute to the fight against global warming by developing access to competitive, low-carbon electricity for all, to the preservation of resources through recycling and to health through nuclear medicine, particularly in the fight against cancer.
The group's purpose is: To develop expertise in the transformation and control of nuclear materials for the climate, for health and for a resource-efficient world, today and tomorrow.
- Orano transforms nuclear materials so that they can be used to support the development of society, mainly in the field of energy.
- The group offers high value-added products and services throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, from raw materials to waste treatment.
- Its activities, ranging from mining to dismantling, as well as conversion, enrichment, recycling, logistics and engineering, contribute to the production of low-carbon electricity.
- The ORANO group develops certain activities in the field of medical research.
- Orano's 17 employees use their expertise and mastery of cutting-edge technologies, as well as their constant search for innovation and their unwavering commitment to safety, to serve their customers in France and abroad.
- In addition, Orano is continuing to develop new activities such as the recycling of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and the manufacture of battery materials, in partnership with French and international players.
Copyrights: ORANO / LOCOMOTIV PRODUCTION (R&D: Analysis laboratory of the Extractive Metallurgy Innovation Center (CIME). Orano Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Limousin. France) AMANKULOV ZHANARBEK AMAN (Production: Drilling on the Tortkuduk site, KATCO, Kazakhstan)
- The group's mining activities cover theexploration, production and marketing of uranium in the world as well as the redevelopment of former mining sites.
- From the Malvési sites in Aude (1st conversion stage) and Tricastin in Drôme/Vaucluse (Philippe Coste plants for the 2004nd conversion stage and Georges Besse 2 for enrichment), Orano has a benchmark industrial platform, with the highest standards of safety and security, with a reduced environmental footprint.
- Thanks to the performance of its factories in La Hague and Melox, Orano is positioning itself as theinternational benchmark player in the field of fuel treatment and recycling. 96% of the materials contained in the fuels (uranium and plutonium) are reusable. They are separated by Orano at La Hague. The plutonium is reused in the Mox fuels manufactured by Orano in its Melox plant. The 4% of ultimate waste is packaged in a safe and stable manner using vitrification.
- With over 60 years of experience, Orano provides global logistics solutions for its customers worldwide, from the design of packaging, its approval, its manufacture to the transport of nuclear materials, whether by land, sea or rail, meeting the highest safety requirements.
- Leader in the Services to operators : site assistance and operational logistics, scaffolding and insulation, industrial maintenance, industrial operator, training, radiological safety and radiation protection.
- Reference operator in dismantling, from the design of scenarios to the implementation of projects, including their management and monitoring.
- Key player in the waste management radioactive of any nature, whatever their activity.
- Orano finally commits to the virtuous mobility, via a process that allows the recovery and purification of valuable materials contained in end-of-life electric vehicle battery modules or waste from gigafactories (cobalt, manganese, nickel, lithium, graphite), with a view to reusing them in new components.
Top 3 worldwide in its key activities
Near 200 clients over 30 Countries
17 industrial sites in France
Value Chain Segment
- Prospection
- Extraction
- Production
- First transformation
- R & D