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France, country guest of honor: innovations

Composites Rhône-Alpes: a local composite
network of innovative companies
For the 2015 JEC Composites Europe trade show in Paris on 10-11-12
March, Composites Rhône-Alpes initiated an original public relations
exercise to present the companies in its network that are participating in the show.
Composites Rhônes-Alpes

We begin this presentation with Composites Rhône-Alpes, the organization that acts as the link among the different players in the
network, and which is the initiator of a public relations exercise to promote the regional composite industry.
This network for the regional Rhône-Alpes
composite industry brings together major
French innovators in the field of advanced
composite materials and applications. It was
established in 2009 by Compositec, Plastipolis and Techtera, three of the main competitive clusters in the Rhône-Alpes region
(another one, Axelera, joined in 2011).
The network is now attached to the IDEEL
Energy Transition Institute's Materials
department (based in Solaize in the Rhone
region). The network is organized around
two themes - excellence and innovation -
and works towards the following goals:
- bringing companies (both smaller businesses and large groups) and the sector's

research organizations together and providing them with support;
- promoting their excellence and innovations;
- fostering the emergence of R&D projects
in order to develop an industry that is not
only innovative, but also sustainable.
The network integrates all the projects
launched by the composite industry's competitive clusters, in the aerospace, automotive, building, and sports & leisure sectors.
Its main lines of development focus on:
- technologies for the development of thermoplastic composites,
- high-quality mass-production processes

(moulds and process),
- multi-material assembly and bonding
technologies and processes,
- composite part finishing and painting,
- recycling technologies.
Each year, Composites Rhône-Alpes
participates in the JEC Europe trade show.
This year, it is back with ten Rhône-Alpes
manufacturers: MDB Texinov, the Pôle
Européen de la Plasturgie (PEP), Lugand
Aciers, Marduel, Sopara, DMM, the IFTH,
CT2MC, Fibroline and MIB Hydro. The
product/process innovations of these companies will be on display at Stand G 50 in the
Rhône-Alpes pavilion.
More information: www.plasticpolis.fr

CT2MC: design, dimensioning and process development
CT2MC was established in January 2012 by Olivier Le Meaux. The company brings together engineering and consulting skills that focus on
composite materials. The team is made up of engineers and PhDs in mechanics and electronics with product development expertise, making
it possible to extend functional integration to the integration of electronic functions. Through this association of expertise, CT2MC can create
the value for its in-house development and customer services that is needed for the success of any project.
The company's activities focus on:
- developing composite products to meet manufacturer specifications and also to meet its own needs;
- managing the global engineering for products that require mainly composite materials: design, dimensioning and development of specific
converting processes with integration of the electronics and all other engineering specialties;
- participating in the development of its customers' engineering and innovation projects by providing expert consulting services in the composite industry;
- developing an innovative technology, called Composit'tronic®, which is based on the integration of electronic functions into structures made
of composite materials.
CT2MC's stand will feature its latest products: a range of aquatic drones for environmental sampling and inspection called SPYBOAT® SWAN
and DUCK. These autonomous drones are based on a patented technology that guarantees the absence of contamination between the sampling tool and the environment in which it is operating. The integration of electronic functions into the structure enables an ultra-lightweight
design based on the use of composite materials.
More information: http://ct2mc.com/

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