The ID Advance Aerospace and Transport group and the Aerospace and Transport Industrial Campus association were created near Strasbourg at the end of 2006. They were formed from the Forum Carolus think tank with the aim of bringing together the major groups, small- and medium-sized firms, and R&D centres active in these sectors in the upper Rhine region, at the meeting-point of three key countries (France, Germany and Switzerland). ID Advance and the Campus association are in the right place at the right time to fill niches and invest in their geostrategic location: half-way between Hamburg and Toulouse and at the gateway to a Central and Eastern Europe at last reunited with Western Europe.
The Creation of Aerospace and Transport Industrial Campus and ID Advance
ID Advance is a GIE (economic interest group), an industrial project which saw the light of day at the Forum Carolus in April 2006 at the meeting of some innovative SMEs (small and medium-sized businesses) with a representative of Messier-Bugatti (Safran Group). The GIE follows the plan and the strategy initiated by Forum Carolus, which aims to network the different actors in the aerospace business based in the Rhine Valley so as to highlight the potential of this sector which lies at the heart of the great cross-border region of the Upper Rhine and its surrounding regions.
This Forum Carolus project gave birth to the Aerospace and Transport Industrial Campus association. The aim of ID Advance is to take the lead in the development of patents, products and innovative procedures up to the stage of pre-industrial validation, and to allow their application in the fields of aerospace and transport. ID Advance’s partners include the Jungo Engineering design bureau, which specialises in R&D and prototyping, and the GIE Harmony, which is widely recognised for its expertise in the fields of materials science and surface treatments, and has a network of international clients concentrated in the aerospace sector. At its site of Duppigheim/Molsheim ID Advance will have available:
• the technical and technological means to deal with any industrial project, from R&D through prototyping, and eventually up to pre-production;
• design bureaux (conception, design, workshops for manufacture and assembly), experts in materials science, surface treatments, and certainly metalworking, in order to produce the mechanical parts associated with prototypes.
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