Our story · French industry association
A collective voice to grow industrial cleantech.
France Cleantech Industries was born in March 2023 from a simple conviction: technologies that decarbonise industry must also be financed, manufactured and deployed at scale.
The starting point of a collective built by and for industrial companies.
- 01March 2023Association founded
- 0220 active membersIn 2026 · French industrial SMEs
- 03France & EuropePublic and industrial dialogue
The story
From a shared need to an industrial collective.
Four stages explain why FCI exists, what it brings together and what it works to make possible.
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01 The need
Make the realities of innovative industrial SMEs heard.
Industrial cleantech companies build real equipment, but their research, demonstration and industrialisation cycles are long. They needed a collective voice able to represent their challenges to markets, partners and public authorities.
A shared observation: industrial innovation is not financed, deployed or exported like a digital service.
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02 The founding
France Cleantech Industries becomes a French non-profit association.
FCI is created to bring together leaders who face the same industrial constraints and share one ambition: to develop energy-transition technologies in France that can reach commercial scale.
The 11 founding members
- Airthium
- Ananké
- CIXTEN
- Enertime
- Entent
- Hevatech
- PackGy
- Sarus
- Stolect
- Sylfen
- Terrao
An independent organisation designed to represent its members’ common interests.
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03 The collective
20 active members in 2026, united by one industrial direction.
Heat pumps, waste heat, storage, hydrogen, electricity generation, air and water treatment: FCI brings together different technologies because industrial decarbonisation requires complementary answers.
Members share field experience, build common positions and make their solutions easier to understand.
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04 The ambition
Turn French innovation into lasting industrial capacity.
FCI works to shorten the path from prototype to factory through technology recognition, access to finance, regulatory dialogue, cooperation and new markets in France and Europe.
Defend technology neutrality and give high-performing solutions the conditions they need to scale.
What connects us
The industrial transition does not depend on a single solution.
It advances when complementary technologies meet industrial expertise, capital and a public-policy framework capable of supporting scale-up.
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Represent the industrial realities our members face.
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Connect companies, sectors, investors and decision-makers.
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Accelerate the deployment of high-performing solutions.
Governance
The France Cleantech Industries board
Industry and energy-transition leaders working together to carry the collective’s voice.
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Frédéric Thevenod
President
Frédéric Thévenod founded H2P in 2009 after thirteen years at Renault and Dassault and an engineering degree from INSA.
Over fifteen years he developed an innovative waste-heat recovery technology that provides manufacturers with an effective decarbonisation solution and attractive returns on investment.
In 2023 H2P merged with HEVATECH with support from energy company EREN Groupe and Banque des Territoires. Frédéric became HEVATECH’s Director of Business Development and Programmes. The company specialises in recovering industrial waste heat; its first installations are operating and deployment continues.
Alongside his role at HEVATECH, Frédéric serves as President of France Cleantech Industries. This dual role gives him a detailed understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing French cleantech.
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Antoine Meffre
Vice-President
Antoine Meffre is the founder and President of Eco-Tech Ceram, created in 2015 to recover industrial waste heat, reduce CO₂ emissions and improve energy efficiency in heavy industry.
He develops technologies that lower energy costs and emissions while strengthening the economic competitiveness of industrial companies. Antoine is recognised as an active contributor to France’s environmental transition and to a greener, more resilient industry.
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Jouad Zemmouri
Vice-President
Jaouad Zemmouri is the founder and President of TERRAO and combines scientific expertise with clean-technology entrepreneurship.
He has designed several innovative technologies:
- TERRAO®, a system that reduces or eliminates air pollution from industrial and human activity
- CARBOdown®, a technology designed to reduce CO₂ emissions
- TerraoSave, an industrial flue-gas washing system that captures pollutants and recovers energy.
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Guillaume Arnaud
Vice-President
An engineer by training, Guillaume Arnaud has worked for several years in energy recovery and industrial transition. As an FCI Vice-President, he contributes to members’ export and international-development priorities.
A graduate of Icam Toulouse specialising in thermodynamics, with professional experience in the United Kingdom, Guillaume focuses on technologies that combine energy performance with a positive environmental impact.
As European Sales Engineer at Enogia, he helps deploy Organic Rankine Cycle technology that converts waste heat into electricity. This role has given him substantial field experience with industrial and environmental stakeholders across Europe.
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Eric Morelle
Treasurer
Eric Morelle is Treasurer of France Cleantech Industries.
He is also co-founder and CEO of ExtraJool, an innovative energy start-up.
At ExtraJool, Eric leads a team developing technologies to:
- Recover industrial waste heat
- Materially reduce industrial customers’ electricity bills
- Cut CO₂ emissions and improve energy efficiency.
His work combines financial expertise, technological innovation and commitment to the energy transition, reflecting FCI’s support for innovative SMEs.
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Anaël Baulard
Secretary-General
Anaël Baulard is a business engineer with international experience at ENERTIME, Schneider Electric and UNHCR in Bangladesh. A specialist in waste-heat recovery and energy solutions for emerging markets, he coordinates FCI’s members and works to make clean technologies accessible and competitive in France.