This appointment aims to apply the simplification method inspired by the reconstruction of Notre-Dame to 150 reindustrialization projects.
The government has appointed a “coordinator” of so-called “Notre-Dame” industrial projects, in order to “accelerate industrial investments”, the Ministry of Industry announced on Tuesday. This decision is a continuation of the reindustrialization plan unveiled in April by Emmanuel Macron, in Allier: the president presented 150 strategic projects based on the example of the reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, set up as a model of simplification and acceleration of procedures. This barometer of reindustrialization is at its lowest: the General Directorate of Enterprises has only identified 19 factory openings or expansions in 2025, compared to 88 in 2024.
Olivier Tainturier, an experienced profile
To coordinate these projects, the Minister for Industry, Sébastien Martin, appointed Olivier Tainturier, state administrator and trained lawyer. The latter held several positions as sub-prefect, most recently in Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire), a territory where the minister exercised his electoral mandates before his entry into government.
Olivier Tainturier will be responsible for meeting stakeholders throughout the country to accelerate the completion of the 150 projects. According to the ministry, it “will be intended to meet project leaders, prefects, decentralized state services, local authorities and industrial players, in conjunction with the General Directorate of Enterprises, other ministries and local state services”. Its mission: “to concretely identify blocking points, accelerate their resolution and guarantee operational monitoring as close as possible to local realities”. He will exercise his functions “under the authority of Sébastien Martin”, to “quickly transform decisions into concrete achievements”.
These 150 projects must apply the “Notre-Dame method”: reproduce, on the scale of reindustrialization, the coordinated construction site logic which made it possible to rebuild the cathedral in record time, with fixed milestones, individual monitoring of sites and removal of obstacles on the ground.
