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Cetim turns 50 and celebrates its anniversary in Bercy

The celebrations for the 50 th anniversary of Cetim, the French technical centre for the mechanical industry, ended with a national event on 5 July 2016 in Bercy. Focus on how Cetim has been supporting technological innovation from its creation and how it addresses today’s and tomorrow’s societal challenges.

   

“If it did not exist, Cetim would have to be created”; “Cetim is the missing link between the research and the business worlds”, “it is a national fab lab which is the key to industrial manufacturing of products and which makes it possible to transition from research to market”. From Pascal Faure (general manager of the DGE) to Emmanuel Vielliard (chairman of Cetim) and including Bruno Grandjean (new chairman of the FIM, the French federation of mechanical industries), all guests of honour attending the celebrations of the 50 th anniversary of Cetim on 5 July 2016 at the premises of the Ministry of Economy, Industry and the Digital Sector recognised the important role played by Cetim in the current innovations and in France’s reindustrialisation. 

 

Major industry players

This event brought together 325 persons in Bercy and closed the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of “France’s most significant industrial technical centre”. It was the opportunity to discover, through accounts from major players, how Cetim’s work contributes to meet the four main challenges of tomorrow’s society: mobility, food, energy and health. Tomorrow, mobility will see the advent of intuitive autonomous vehicles developed by Valeo, able to drive and transport us more efficiently. With Vapérail’s instrumented splices, railway systems will be safer and communicating. The challenge related to food, or how to feed 9 billion human beings in 2050, will be taken up by increasingly efficient agricultural machines. This is the goal of Pima@tec, the new agricultural machinery testing centre installed in Beauvais (France) in collaboration with Gima, a specialist of transmission systems. Agricultural robots developed by Naïo, a French start-up company based in Toulouse will also help to take up the food challenge.

Tomorrow, the production of fossil energy will become more efficient thanks to submarine equipment currently developed by Saipem in collaboration with Cetim, while hydrogen distribution will become both simpler and safer with the station developed by H2Nova as part of the H2REF project, also with support from Cetim. Finally, health will be a huge challenge for tomorrow’s industry: how to increase the life of human beings and make it more comfortable every day? Helping humans to live longer is the objective of Carmat, with its artificial heart which was born in Cetim. In parallel, Wright makes life more comfortable by using additive manufacturing to customise its prosthetic implants and make surgeons’ work easier during surgical operations. 

 

A platform for the future

All these brilliant feats of mechanical engineering show the progress made during these last 50 years and deserve to be highlighted. But from now on, Cetim is now looking towards the next 50 years and concentrates its efforts towards the industry of the future. In this new quest, Cetim can rely on support from the other French technical industrial centres. The FIM (French federation of mechanical industries), the FPC (French federation of plastic engineering and composites) and Unifa (the French union of furniture industries) chose this event to announce the creation of a platform which will coordinate the expertise and capabilities of all industrial technical centres in order to provide small and medium companies with easier access to the industry of the future.

   

Watch the video summary of 50 years of technological innovations with Cetim on Cetim’s French Youtube channel

   

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