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If the metal industry represents a significant number of employees in Pamiers, there is a sector which also creates jobs: painting.
Established in the Pic and Gabriélat areas, certain metallurgical companies subcontract their activities and others offer services in various fields. Zone de Pic, SARL Cerny carries out the cutting of profiles, sheets, folding, plasma cutting, bending as well as drilling and the retail sale of different types of iron to professionals and individuals. SARL ETI (17 employees) specializes in precision industrial sheet metal work. For its part, MCP Pamiers (22 employees) is involved in the manufacturing of custom parts, the repair of industrial machines, machining, welding, assembly and mechanical maintenance.
SAS ECOBRASIF (2 employees) aims to be a specialist in the reprocessing of abrasive sludge from water jet cutting. Ecobrasif is the first abrasive sand reprocessing plant in France. SA Milhorat et Cie subcontracts with Aubert & Duval. Thanks to its 16 employees, it has diversified its activities towards water jet cutting under very high pressure as well as vertical cutting saws allowing cutting of all parts with the help of abrasives.
Established in Gabriélat since 2020, EURL HUC Alain and its 8 employees, carry out subcontracting in industrial, agricultural maintenance and construction, and it specializes in the bar turning activity sector. It is also a subcontractor of Aubert & Duval and Forges de Niaux.
SAS SORAR (Société de Récupération Ariégeoise) carries out the recycling of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, the purchase and collection of metal waste for recovery. For its part, SARL RMAEC-SERVAT (around 30 employees), specializes in the sector of activity of manufacturing metal structures and parts of structures.
New jobs are created thanks to the arrival of Maestria paints
In the 1960s, after leaving the Belgian Congo, Paul MAES, a chemical engineer, decided to settle in Pamiers (his wife being from Ariège), and founded an independent family business, “Peintures Maestria”.
In 1963 he created in the new area of Pic à Pamiers “the Factory of Paintings of Ariège” which would bear the name of Societe Master Peintures and it would never move from there. He developed the first ready-to-use glycerophthalic lacquers. The company designs, produces and markets four ranges of paints in France and all countries: “building”, “floor”, “anti-corrosion system” and “road signs”.
It manufactures solvent-based and aqueous-based paints, resins, sealants, as well as a color division capable of reproducing more than 120,000 shades.
