VersaPlast: From Start-Up to Product Engineering Phase

Created in 2008 as a start-up, VersaPlast has developed VERSAPAN, a new material with a wide number of potential applications and which could well revolutionize the industrial world.

It only took VersaPlast a little under three years to progress from start-up to the engineering phase of its product.

From its founding in April 2008 and up until December 2010, the company was housed in the Pertuis innovating enterprise incubator. Due to its development and the need to respond to its clients' requirements, VersaPlast needed to find larger premises. The search for a new site, aided by Pays d’Aix Développement and Provence Promotion, led to the company moving in to a 12,000 sq. ft. building in the Duranne business park at Aix-en-Provence in January 2011.

Headed by four director partners with experience in different fields, VersaPlast has developed a unique process for manufacturing composite thermoplastic panels. The result is VERSAPAN, an innovative material with a number of interesting properties, since it's tough, rot-proof, extremely light and 100% recyclable, which makes it extremely versatile and adaptable to different market requirements.

This new composite material has enormous potential, with applications in various high-growth sectors such as solar energy, transportation or even containment in corrosive environments. The potential is such that VersaPlast is about to expand its activities overseas to the UK, Germany and the US, with plans to set up offices in these countries in the future.

VersaPlast's expertise also extends to assisting industrialists with technological disruption. The company works with its clients on a joint development basis within projects aimed at sustainable development.

A member of the Capenergies competitive cluster, VersaPlast is at the heart of the region's drive in the field of renewable energies.