Editing Languedoc (section)

===Industry===
[[Image:A380 Reveal 2.jpg|thumb|The first completed [[Airbus A380]] at the "A380 Reveal" event on 18 January 2005 in [[Toulouse]], home base of the European [[aerospace]] industry.]]

Aerospace ([[Airbus]], [[CNES]], etc.), electronics ([[Freescale]], etc.), and bio-tech industries in [[Toulouse]]; high-tech, electronics, and computer ([[IBM]]) industries in [[Montpellier]]; pharmaceutical industry ([[Pierre Fabre Group]]) in [[Castres]].

There is also a significant chemical sector in [[Toulouse]], which has been quite battered since the terrible explosion of [[AZF (factory)|AZF]] on 21 September 2001. It has been decided that chemical industries would be moved out of [[Toulouse]], and a large campus devoted to [[cancer research]] and bio-tech R&D will be opened on the site.

Elsewhere in the region industries are small and in decline, in particular around the formerly mining areas of [[Alès]] and [[Carmaux]] in the interior of the region.