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“Let us open the doors to the future”: illustrations in Nantes!

The third and final episode in the "ouvrons les portes du futur" (“let us open the doors to the future”) saga was held in Nantes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Cetim. 200 visitors met for the occasion on the Jonelière and Technocampus Composites sites to discover the centre's expertise.

 

"Mechanical expertise" and "Sealing and new materials" were the two key topics at this 3 rd and final episode in the Cetim open days. The Nantes site welcomed around 200 people on 17 June to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Centre. This event provided visitors with the opportunity to appreciate the demonstrations provided: in terms of expertise, the Nantes teams highlighted the poor treatment suffered by the products in order to discover the actual situation behind failures, both for metal and composite parts and products. A full-scale and precious investigation had been carried out to determine the reasons for damage, root causes and enable redesign on the basis of recommended corrective or preventive solutions. Sealing is a priority and an entire platform is dedicated to this aspect - as visitors could see - highlighting the different innovative technologies able to satisfy the different safety, reliability and environmental criteria. This point affects the entire industry, and not simply mechanical engineering, therefore leaks must be measured, testing in actual conditions is required, modelling and the development of design tools are necessary to ensure understanding.

Around 200 individuals were also able to watch a fluids circuit…. Participants were required to travel to a platform equipped with unique resources in Europe for this purpose. Test engineering combined with numerical modelling guarantees the development of innovative fluid processes or components at this site. "A splendid playground", according to this partnership specialist from Nantes university who "intends to reinforce coordination with Cetim".

 

From one circuit to another

After completing this circuit, participants left the Jonelière site and travelled to the outskirts of Nantes: "Welcome to Technocampus Composites". This space has represented a new phase since 2009. Cetim, via its commitment to Techocampus Composites, is hence contributing to the dynamics of promising regional sectors of excellence, alongside of large groups such as Airbus, Daher, etc., SMEs, universities, engineering schools and research centres such as CEA, and two competitive clusters (EMC2 and Plastipolis).

This circuit focused on innovative processes: manufacturing by robotic filament winding, and the thermoplastic pultrusion line, robotic transfer combined with a press function, the cutting module, all three of which are components of the high-speed composite production line. This line received a Jec Award at Houston in 2015. These Cetim innovations impressed visitors, just like this company manager from Poitiers who insisted on travelling to the event, despite a heavy schedule.

 

4 conferences and a round table 

During the day, four conferences with the titles “Multimaterials for light travel”, “Making effective pumps”, “Confining fluids, not the atmosphere”, and “Safer and for longer: the challenge inherent to infrastructures” described the main points explored at the Nantes centre to the public. An industrial mould specialist appreciated the description of priority technologies: "It is important to open up, to understand the key priorities of the future. Feedback will not necessarily be immediate, opportunities often arise at a later stage".

Just as in Saint-Étienne on 20 May and in Senlis on 3 June, the day ended with a debate on “the industry of the future on a day-to-day basis”, followed by speeches by Emmanuel Vieilliard, Cetim’s CEO, Bruno Grandjean, new Chairman of the “Fédération des industries mécaniques” - FIM (French Federation of mechanical industries) and Bruno Retailleau, senator and President of the Regional Council of “Pays de la Loire”.

The celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Cetim will end on 5 July, with a national-scale event at the Ministry of Economy and Finance in Paris.

 

Find out more information on the open day in Saint-Étienne on 17 May 2016, the day of 3 June in Senlis, and on the appointment of Bruno Grandjean as President of FIM from our site, subsite: "News in France".

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