This sector includes the fashion and luxury goods markets (industrial and retail activities in haute couture, ready-to-wear, jewellery, watch making, textiles, leather, leather goods and footwear sectors), and the cosmetics industry (perfumery, make-up, skincare, hygiene and toiletries, hair-care products).

Automorphic rough rubies measuring 2 and 3 mm in diameter respectively, viewed under a binocular loupe (Sri Lanka, 2013).
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oct
2023
Paris
Trade Fair
Cosmetic 360 2023
At the Pollutec trade fair in Lyon on 11 October 2023, TRACE and BRGM presented their partnership during a joint round-table discussion on innovation.
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Traceability of materials: a partnership between BRGM and the TRACE Group
18 Oct 2023
Automorphic rough rubies measuring 2 and 3 mm in diameter respectively, viewed under a binocular loupe (Sri Lanka, 2013).
Our solutions
Analysing the minerals in your cosmetic and pharmaceutical products
Would you like to be able to characterise and qualify the raw materials in your cosmetic and pharmaceutical products? Find out more about their origins, crystallochemistry, morphology and stability? Remove all traces of foreign bodies that might come from the production lines? Analyse any packaging defects?
BRGM's Plat'Inn platform for raw materials and the circular economy
Laboratory, technological platform
Plat’Inn: an experimental pilot facility for the treatment of mineral raw materials, waste and industrial by-products
As part of building a more “circular economy”, BRGM can help you design and develop innovative solutions for the extraction and use of primary and secondary mineral resources.
Industrial wasteland
Our solutions
Rainwater infiltration beneath former industrial sites and contaminated wasteland
BRGM is offering its support to project developers by providing tailored solutions for controlled rainwater infiltration beneath former industrial sites and contaminated wasteland to prevent groundwater degradation.
Wagons carrying bauxite ore, Guinea
Our solutions
Environmental analysis of mineral resource procurement
BRGM is able to measure the environmental impacts linked to the supply of mineral raw materials. In this respect, through a better understanding of the flow of materials along value chains, BRGM helps economic players to reduce their environmental impact.
Diagram of different geothermal heat sources
Our solutions
Assessment of the geothermal potential of the subsurface as a sustainable energy choice
BRGM can help you characterise the underground resources available to meet your energy requirements by assessing the geothermal energy that can be mobilised, on different scales, for sustainable exploitation.
Preparation of 5 tonnes of mining waste from the copper industry
Our solutions
Characterisation and recovery of fine materials from industrial processes
BRGM can assist you with the characterisation and development of innovative processes for the treatment of mining and industrial fine tailings with a view to their recovery.
Gold nugget concentrate, French Guiana
Our solutions
Traceability and quality of raw materials and mineral products
BRGM can help you identify the origin of your mineral raw materials, as well as with product quality control.