01 — Local economy
Business in Toulouse
Airbus has its headquarters and main final-assembly lines at Blagnac beside Toulouse airport, and the city is a major centre of European space engineering, home to CNES, Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence and Space satellite teams. Hundreds of subcontractors in machining, composites, avionics and engineering services depend on these programmes, and the Oncopole cancer-research campus hosts Pierre Fabre and Evotec laboratories.
Where software helps: Aerospace subcontractors in Toulouse work to EN 9100 rules, needing first-article inspections, serial-number traceability and material certificates attached to each part, plus cost tracking across long Airbus production programmes.