Your Technological Engineering and R&D partner
Accelerate your innovation and secure your technological development
For more than 50 years, we ensure competitive and sustainable solutions for your most complex challenges with our multidisciplinary expertise & customized engineering/testing services.
Complex project management
We can handle the most complex projects thanks to our multidisciplinary expertise, 360° support and tailor made solutions
Best cost support
Meet your cost, quality and deadline targets with our competitive services, lean organisation and appropriate working time management.
Active in many European R&D Project
Achieve your goals with one of Europe’s leading players in research and innovation.
Our services and expertises
For more than 50 years, we ensure competitive and sustainable solutions for your most complex challenges with our multidisciplinary expertise & customized engineering/testing services.
Material testing
International leading accredited labs, covering metallic and composite materials: mechanical tests, metallographic analysis, chemical analysis, corrosion tests, tribology, surface treatment, fatigue, fracture, quasi static, viscoelasticity, crash, impact, hardness test, vibration, ageing…
Product testing
Support from formalising your requirements to analyse the tests, Design of customised benches, analysis of sensor or gauge recordings, fatigue post treatment, fatigue reliability analysis.
E-mobility
Testing & material characterization, Components Design & qualification,
Systems optimization & Validation (Cooling plates…), Retrofit & endurance at scale 1.
Hydrogen
Design, material characterisation and product validation (fluid systems, tank, piping etc..) testing, consulting (standards & regulation).
Composite Engineering
Innovation, Design optimisation, numerical and physical product validation, Production ramp up boost, Manufacturing support, end of life management (Upcycling, recycling, environmental impact).
Control & monitoring
Real time monitoring for predictive maintenance, in-line control automation, energy performance optimisation, product quality control, extension of the lifespan of equipment, NDT.
Our clients
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Our accreditations and certifications
- Torque measurement,
- Mass: 1g to 20kg,
- Dimensional metrology,
- Pressure
- Physical analysis of surfaces,
- Characterization of foreign bodies,
- Electromagnetic compatibility,
- Bogie tests,
- Tests in climatic environment,
- Mechanical vibration tests,
- Performance or fitness for function tests and physical tests,
- Orthopedic implants and endosseous dental implants,
- Metallic materials,
- Plastic materials and organic matrix composites,
- Particle cleanliness,
- Fluids and Sealing Technologies
Measurement, monitoring, non-destructive testing, diagnosis
Noise emissions into the environment from equipment intended for use outside buildings
Our Europeans Project
The “European Digital Innovation Hub” is one of the 4 pillars of the digital Europe Programinitiative , aimed at strengthening the European Union’s critical digital capabilities. Cetim contributes to three of them:
- DIHNAMIC (EDIH Nouvelle Aquitaine)
- DEDIHCATED (EDIH Franche-Comté)
- EDIH Grand Est
Manufacture of a Krueger flap using Cetim’s automated Spide TP process, designed in thermoplastic composite for more effective wings and more efficient aircraft – project integrated into the European Clean Sky 2 program, rewarded by a JEC Awards in 2024.
European standardization activity aimed at increasing access to and adoption of non-destructive tools for residual stress characterization.
Towards zero emissions in European ferrous foundries using inorganic binder systems! aims to implement and validate the use of inorganic binder systems in foundries on an industrial scale.
Part of the European initiative for the emergence of a biobased and circular economy through the development of new eco-circular polymer materials.
About us
Cetim, the French Technical Center for Mechanical Industries supports innovation and competitiveness of companies thanks to its multidisciplinary expertise and unique R&D capacity.
Our 1 100 engineers provide a comprehensive array of services and solutions to the worldwide manufacturing industries, especially Aerospace, Automotive, Energy and Oil & Gas.
What makes us different?
- 50+ years of experience
- Unique R&D capabilities
- Integrity and impartiality
- A multidisciplinary field of expertise addressing the entire value chain of company needs
Together with its international subsidiaries and partners, Cetim has been serving 8 000 customers in more than 50 countries and has become a world leading engineering group able to support your environmental and Industry 4.0 transformation.