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The aerospace equipment will consolidate its two main sites of the Bordeaux region (Pessac and The Hailsham) in the Airpark Merignac. Objective: To increase productivity and be closer to its main customers and subcontractors.
The concept of the cockpit of the future designed to Hailsham. - P.Coni / Thales
This is the first large industrial decision of Jean-Bernard Levy at the head of Thales since the beginning of the year and it weighs 200 million euros. It is also the most important sector in the region employs 40,000 people in the aeronautics and space since the inauguration of the factory of the manufacturer of helicopter engines Turbomeca Bordes near Pau, in which the subsidiary Safran has invested over 100 million euros in 2010. Considerably across the aviation industry in general, will be the biggest investment made ​​in France by Thales for years since moving into its new headquarters in Gennevilliers in Ile de France. "This is the biggest operation in France for three or four years, "says the" Echos "Jean-Bernard Levy.
This past forty years in the town, the aerospace group will indeed invest in the construction of a new "campus" of 55,000 square meters that join, by 2016 or 2017, the company's employees now based in Hailsham and Pessac.
At Hailsham, there are specialists machine interfaces men working on the design and manufacture of aircraft cockpits for both the military market (A400 M, Mirage, Rafale, Sukhoi) but also civil ( Airbus , ATR). With some futuristic concepts in the image of a concept Odicis cockpit implementing a single reconfigurable touchscreen control by the crew. A Pessac however, we focus on the only military market, but with very different as airborne radars specialties, calculators missions in recent years on the drones.
However, many projects are carried out in collaboration between the two sites and require a "frequent trips with the key loss of time," says a site manager. So the combination of the activities on one of the two sites was considered for many years and was on the top of the stack of folders that should treat Jean-Bernard Levy, "once the decision to stay in Bordeaux since the near our major customers, all scenarios were viewed. The modernization was dismissed because of difficulties and less effective than we would have obtained. "
Faced with the Dassault factory
The choice was focused on a field of fifteen acres located in the Airpark area in front of the huge factory Dassault but also some subcontractors. Alain Rousset, President of the Regional Council but also former mayor of Bordeaux, which invests heavily in supporting the aerospace industry has welcomed this decision and immediately proposed to establish a partnership with Thales to accompany "redeployment industrial site Pessac [which owns Thales] to facilitate the reception of innovative activities. "
After the decision in 2009 to relocate Thales Asia manufacturing visualization systems for the Airbus A320 and manufactured until Hailsham and Meudon, this investment confirms mounted power of Bordeaux for aeronautical activities and space. Three years ago the government decided to install most of the Merignac Simmad, ie the integrated structure of the operational maintenance of aircraft equipment from the Department of Defense. A structure of more than 700 people who manages a budget of 2 billion euros. The Region in turn bought an old settlement of the DGA spent on training for careers in aviation maintenance, Aerocampus, with whom Thales expresses its willingness to collaborate.
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Wow French thales really produces some stylish cockpits i wonder why IAF is such a fanboy of it's French cockpit
The concept of the cockpit of the future designed to Hailsham. - P.Coni / Thales
This is the first large industrial decision of Jean-Bernard Levy at the head of Thales since the beginning of the year and it weighs 200 million euros. It is also the most important sector in the region employs 40,000 people in the aeronautics and space since the inauguration of the factory of the manufacturer of helicopter engines Turbomeca Bordes near Pau, in which the subsidiary Safran has invested over 100 million euros in 2010. Considerably across the aviation industry in general, will be the biggest investment made ​​in France by Thales for years since moving into its new headquarters in Gennevilliers in Ile de France. "This is the biggest operation in France for three or four years, "says the" Echos "Jean-Bernard Levy.
This past forty years in the town, the aerospace group will indeed invest in the construction of a new "campus" of 55,000 square meters that join, by 2016 or 2017, the company's employees now based in Hailsham and Pessac.
At Hailsham, there are specialists machine interfaces men working on the design and manufacture of aircraft cockpits for both the military market (A400 M, Mirage, Rafale, Sukhoi) but also civil ( Airbus , ATR). With some futuristic concepts in the image of a concept Odicis cockpit implementing a single reconfigurable touchscreen control by the crew. A Pessac however, we focus on the only military market, but with very different as airborne radars specialties, calculators missions in recent years on the drones.
However, many projects are carried out in collaboration between the two sites and require a "frequent trips with the key loss of time," says a site manager. So the combination of the activities on one of the two sites was considered for many years and was on the top of the stack of folders that should treat Jean-Bernard Levy, "once the decision to stay in Bordeaux since the near our major customers, all scenarios were viewed. The modernization was dismissed because of difficulties and less effective than we would have obtained. "
Faced with the Dassault factory
The choice was focused on a field of fifteen acres located in the Airpark area in front of the huge factory Dassault but also some subcontractors. Alain Rousset, President of the Regional Council but also former mayor of Bordeaux, which invests heavily in supporting the aerospace industry has welcomed this decision and immediately proposed to establish a partnership with Thales to accompany "redeployment industrial site Pessac [which owns Thales] to facilitate the reception of innovative activities. "
After the decision in 2009 to relocate Thales Asia manufacturing visualization systems for the Airbus A320 and manufactured until Hailsham and Meudon, this investment confirms mounted power of Bordeaux for aeronautical activities and space. Three years ago the government decided to install most of the Merignac Simmad, ie the integrated structure of the operational maintenance of aircraft equipment from the Department of Defense. A structure of more than 700 people who manages a budget of 2 billion euros. The Region in turn bought an old settlement of the DGA spent on training for careers in aviation maintenance, Aerocampus, with whom Thales expresses its willingness to collaborate.
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Wow French thales really produces some stylish cockpits i wonder why IAF is such a fanboy of it's French cockpit
