Market drivers

Cost-efficient automotive cabling

Ecology

• environmentally-friendly solutions at all levels
• Smaller, lighter cables
• flexible cables with high electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC) for hybrid and electric vehicles
• Halogen-free, fire-retardant cables : safer and easier recycling, meeting new ecological norms

Economy

• copper-clad steel or aluminum cables and new alloys help to reduce costs
• higher temperature insulations allow smaller, optimized cross-sections
• small diameters can now move from 0.5 mm2 to 0.22 mm2
• cross-linked insulations also achieve important savings

Emerging zones

• in addition to Western Europe  we deliver or manufacture nearly anywhere in the world: North Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia 

Expertise in metallurgy

• integrated metallurgical supply chain
• processing of some 600,000 metric tons of copper and 200,000 tons of aluminium yearly

Innovation at the core of our products

• 600 researchers and engineers group-wide
• Automotive teams at our TEK center in France and Germany
• Metallurgy Center in France
• Major developments: new, lighter, cheaper and more efficient alloys, flame-retardant, halogen-free compounds, high temperature resistance, fluoropolymers, cross-linking, etc