Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost

Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost is a commune in the Ain department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France, located about 15 kilometers from Lyon. It belongs to the canton of Miribel and to the intercommunality of the communauté de communes de Miribel et du Plateau. At the beginning of the twentieth century it was a small farming village, but it became an industrial town in the 1920s after the second textile factory of the Lyon Society of Artificial Silk was built there. The need for workers in that factory quadrupled the population in just five years, between 1926 and 1931. The factory now belongs to the Japanese group Toray Industries and is still the main employer in the commune, with nearly five hundred employees. The inhabitants are called Mauriciens, and the football club Ain Sud Foot is listed among its sports.