CETIM (French technical center for mechanical industry)

Founded in 1965, Cetim, the Technical Centre for Mechanical Industries, is a non profite engineering group that supports your drive to innovate and boost your competitiveness. Our more than 1000 expert team offer you the very best in technological, mechanical and manufacturing expertise and laboratory, to help you achieve product scale up from concept to serial production. As a major player in Aerospace, Cetim combines global expertise with its distinctive R&D capabilities (over 100 R&D partnerships and joint laboratories, 210 seats on standardisation committees, etc.) and multidisciplinary skills:

* Materials, Products and Processes Engineering: No. 1 laboratory in Europe and 4th worldwide for composites testing; leading laboratory for tests on metallic materials in MEA area; French leader in additive manufacturing

* Systems Performance Mastering: Over 2,000 projects per year; French benchmark for power transmission system, sealing and durability testing; comprehensive asset integrity management assistance (NDT - Inspection, RBI, etc.)

* Sustainable industrial transformation: Support provided to 2,000 SMEs per year; more than 200 consultant architects; the Technological Partner supporting in the transformation of the aeronautics (GIFAS, the French aerospace industries association)

* Failure analysis and expert investigation: More than 1,500 multisector investigations per year, 25 laboratories with cutting edge facilities and many accreditations, 200 experts across the globe

* Cetim Academy® Training courses: +7,000 trainees; + 500 inter-company, intra-company and distance learning programmes Over 14,000 customers in 83 countries rely on the skills and expertise of our 1,100 experts, engineers and technicians based in France, Africa (Morocco and Tunisia) as well as Asia (Malaysia, Singapore and Japan), to meet their current and future challenges.