Inauguration of Safran Tech, Safran’s new Research & Technology Center
Geneviève Fioraso, French Minister of Higher Education and Research, and Jean-Paul Herteman, Chairman and CEO of Safran, inaugurated Safran’s new Research & Technology Center, Safran Tech, at France’s leading science and technology cluster, in Saclay, near Paris.
Safran Tech will eventually house some 300 scientists and engineers 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&T efforts to focus on several major disruptive technologies, in particular more electric aircraft, new aircraft propulsion architectures and new information and communications technologies. Safran has already invested nearly 60 million euros in this venture, and the total will exceed 80 million euros by 2018.