Editing Haute-Savoie (section)

===Companies===
4,301 companies were established in 2004 in Haute-Savoie: nearly 80 percent in the service sector, with a high percentage offering service to individuals (hotels, restaurants, recreational, cultural, sports, personal and household services). This accounted for 21.6 percent of new businesses.
The most active sectors were real estate (up 24 percent), construction (up 15.4 percent), business services (up 12.4 percent) and the food industry (up 10 percent).

In 1999, Haute-Savoie had 2,779 industrial companies producing 13.60 percent of all business income.

==== {{anchor|List of industrial companies in Haute-Savoie|Screw cutting|Competitiveness Cluster Arve Industries Haute-Savoie Mont-Blanc}}Companies in Haute-Savoie ====
* '' Food'': Entremont, [[Evian]] (mineral water), Cereal Partners France, La Gerbe Savoyarde, France, Decoration, Besnier, Fruity
* '' Chemistry-Pharmacy-Medical'': Labcatal, Nicholas Roche, Pierre Fabre Galderma, [https://ivoclar.com/fr%20fr Ivoclar], Corneal, SNCI, Anthogyr
* '' Commerce'': Provencia, Botanic
* '' Electrical and electronic'': Chauvin-Arnoux, DAV, Label, Amphenol Socapex, Cartier, Varilac CEB
* '' Mechanical equipment'': [[Dassault]], [[adixen Vacuum Products]], [[Bosch Rexroth]], [[Union Pump-Guinard Pumps]] (Group Textron)
* '' Home, household equipment'': [[Tefal]], [[Scaime Bourgeois]], [[Mobalpa]], [[Somfy]]
* '' Personal items'': S.T. Dupont, Rexam Reboul, Gay, Maped, Pilot
* '' Data'': Sopra, Cross Systems
* '' Machine tools and special machines'': [[Stäubli]], Prosys, Mach 1, Techmeta (Bodycote), Wirth and Gruffat, Mecasonic, Almo
* '' Mechanics'': SNR Bearings, Parker Hannifin, Glacier Vandervell, Invensys, Eurodec, Frank and Pignard, Bouverat, Nicomatic, ZF, Sandvik, Rossignol Technology
* '' Metals and materials'': PSB Industries, Pechiney Rhenalu, Fonlem Lachenal
* '' Plastics'': Veka, SMPI, Decoplast
* '' Sport and leisure goods'': Salomon (skiing), Mavic, Dynastar, Millet, Fusalp, Eider
* '' Other'': Velsol France, Mecalac, ABMT (Bodycote)

Screw-cutting is a precision parts-machining industry, and Haute-Savoie generates the bulk of French screws. Firms engaged in screw-cutting are major employers in the department. While the automotive industry is the principal client, firms also service the electronics, household-appliance and medical sectors.<ref>{{cite web|title=Haute-Savoie sub-contracting|url=http://www.france-industry-supply.com/sub-contracting/sub-contracting-know-how/haute-savoie-sub-contracting-.html|publisher=Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de la Haute-Savoie|access-date=6 August 2011|year=2009|quote=Industry at the heart of dynamism in Haute-Savoie. 30% of GDP in Haute-Savoie comes from industry (compared with 20% in France) A concentration of several professions/skills on one region: screw-cutting, pre-cutting, assembly of sub-assemblies, innovative materials, surface treatment, grinding, tool manufacture. Three key activities: - Sub-contracting and manufacture of sub-assemblies - Capital goods (specialist machinery, robotics) - Consumer goods: agri-food, sports and leisure, household equipment  Some 2,500 production organisations  52,000 industrial employees (of which 26,000 in metallurgy and metal-working) Industrial fabric made up primarily of SMEs (79.2% of businesses with fewer than 10 employees). The Arve valley: the global benchmark for screw-cutting The capital of screw-cutting, Haute-Savoie represents 65% of screw-cutting in France, and 20% of industrial enterprises within the administrative area + 800 sub-contracting SMEs and almost 500 SMEs specialising in screw-cutting More than 8,000 employees work in screw-cutting in the Arve valley. Main client screw-cutting client sectors in decreasing order of size: automotive (60% of screw-cutting organisations work for this sector), electronics, household appliances, medical.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809082425/http://www.france-industry-supply.com/sub-contracting/Sub-contracting-know-how/Haute-Savoie-sub-contracting-.html|archive-date=9 August 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Arve Industries is part of 67 "competitiveness clusters" created in 2005.
The cluster is dedicated to [[mechatronics]] and includes 60,000 industrial jobs in over 280 companies (primarily small), 1,200 researchers and 250 patents in 2002.
Among the projects supported by the cluster is [[Engineering tolerance#An alternative view of tolerances|inertial tolerancing]], a new approach in evaluating the quality of machined parts. Based on the [[Taguchi loss function]], inertia is defined by its deviation from its target. Inertial tolerancing is a research-and-development program supported by the cluster for its member companies. It is led by a research team from the Symme Laboratory of the University of Savoie and the CTDEC (''Centre Technique du Decolletage''). The publication of the French standard NFX 04-008 demonstrates the relevance of topics covered by the cluster.

Other programs involve the production of clean parts (4P project), developing new models of customer-supplier relationships to improve the effectiveness of simultaneous engineering tasks, and development of the international visibility of the cluster and its members.
The companies concerned are involved with industrial mechanics, precision engineering, precision turning and sub-assemblies and mechanical assemblies, often associated with integrating technologies such as plastics, electronics and hydraulics.
Markets served by member companies of the cluster include transport (cars, trucks, rail and air), production and distribution of electricity, hydraulics (gas or liquid, high-pressure vacuum), medical and health-related.