Safran expands R&D capabilities
Safran’s new research and technology center, Safran Tech was inaugurated in Saclay, near Paris, the company announced on 27 January. The R&D centre will be dedicated to research on key disciplines for all of Safran’s business sectors.
Safran Tech reflects Safran’s corporate strategy of intensifying and pooling its R&D efforts to focus on several major disruptive technologies, in particular more electric aircraft, new aircraft propulsion architectures and new information and communications technologies.
The centre’s staff will team up with universities, government organisations, industry partners and innovative startups, working in joint laboratories or platforms to form a top-tier scientific community, characterised by creativity and connectivity, and open to the entire world.
Safran Tech will soon house a joint laboratory with the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, dedicated to research on sensors and their applications.
Another upcoming venture is a joint vehicle robotics laboratory, created by Peugeot-Citroën, Valeo, the École des mines de Paris engineering school and Safran. Two research centres belonging to the École des Mines ParisTech (Ecole des Mines de Paris) will eventually be located on the site.
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