This KEDGE Alumnus' company is launching a 3.4M€ investment programme.

Romain Ferrière graduated from KEDGE Business School in 2014. After receiving a technical degree (DUT Mechanical Engineering in  Grenoble) and a DUT in Marketing Techniques, Romain moved to England to pursue a Bachelor's in Business Development at Hull University, a partner of KEDGE BS at the time. He returned from his year abroad with the desire to join a major French business school and chose KEDGE Business School, in parallel admission. 

"KEDGE Business School's à la carte programme enabled me to acquire important technical and managerial skills, which allow me to carry out my role as General Director today with serenity. The à la carte programme allows students to diversify and complete their university training in order to be better prepared to enter the business world" Romain explains. 

While pursuing his studies in entrepreneurial finance, Romain supported the development of the company NCH France. After doing an internship at Général Electric, Romain, who is passionate about entrepreneurship, decided to join NCH France as Development Manager in order to participate in the company's technological development and the market launch of the PRECIMUR NCH® products. After the successful launch of the products and obtaining a ten-year warranty manufacturer, Romain was offered the position of Director General of NCH France in order to develop and pursue the company's industrial and business development. 

The NCH project is part of the industrialisation of construction approach. NCH France proposes industrialised constructive solutions by prefabricating PRECIMUR NCH wall elements in-factory. These construction elements are adapted to diverse purposes (personalisation) and help reduce construction costs, manage the quality of elevation, and integrate the highest norms of construction in terms of thermal/seismic/fire protection within construction elements. The industrial production of NCH walls in hidden construction time represents a 20% to 30% savings in costs and construction delays. "The final users of the process, in particular, general construction companies, can access our construction solutions without having to provide an initial investment and without calling into question their staff's qualifications" Romain explains.

Thanks to the modern production techniques offered by NCH France, the company earned 500K€ in revenues during its market clearance phase on the market for construction solutions. Within the next 3 to 5 years, NCH hopes to commercialise 100,000m2 of walls per year and recruit 40 new people on the new production site and increase their revenues to 6.5M€. This ambitious development programme is supported by Fintouch, SmartAngels and a group of Business Angels who have promised Romain nearly 3.4M€ in investments and 1.5M€ in fundraising. 

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