About
About Factory & Fields
Factory & Fields collects accounts from companies and places changing the way they produce and live.
Promafor Sovema precision-engineers the well casing that keeps every water and geothermal borehole intact, from its plant in Vauvert. Recoveo keeps 50,000 hard drives in stock in Roanne, ready to bring failed drives back to life for its clients. VD Holland drilled its own geothermal well rather than pay for Russian gas. Every report starts with a case like that: a named company, a named site, what it actually pulled off.
How we work
We start from a place and from what changed there: the company’s own documentation, the studies and the reporting that followed. We look for what worked. The companies in these pages are the ones doing the work; this site exists to show it, plainly, without jargon and without a lecture.
Who is behind it
Publisher details are in the legal notice. To suggest a case, report an error or ask about partner placements, use the contact form.
Three series
Series
On the Floor
One site, one company, one process, and the people running it. Automation, recycling lines, pilot plants.
Series
In the Field
Farmland and greenhouses fitted with sensors, geothermal heat or agricultural robotics. The same efficiency drive, applied to agriculture.
Series
Places in Transition
Ports, towns and regions reshaped by an industrial or energy transition. The place itself is the story.
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