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EURONAVAL 2016 Online Show Daily - Press Release
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Euronaval 2016: Interview with Alseamar Director François-Xavier de Cointet
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Euronaval is always the perfect occasion to discuss what has already been done and what has still to be done in term of marketing and innovation. Let's take the example of the French company Alseamar and its Director, François-Xavier de Cointet, which offered a significant interview on the occasion of the 25th edition of Euronaval exhibition. |
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Under recent difficult circumstances, Alseamar was able to prove again its technological skills. Let’s have a look at this operations? |
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Alseamar's Sea Explorer underwater glider showcased at Euronaval 2016
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In the field of the ISR, Alseamar presents already more than an asset. Is it a domain in which you always succeed in innovating? Our engineers are overflowing with creativity! We present to the Euronaval show a semi submersible drone. The vehicle is a multi-mission USV, stealth, easy to use, flexible, rugged and easily deployable by one or two men. It can be carried in a Commando craft to deploy it from a waiting area which is usually at a few nautical miles from the target area. It allows to complete an operational mission such as gather Intelligence in real-time, perform a recognition of suspicious ship, harbors, maritime infrastructures (Oil&Gaz platforms..), destroy a target, or record underwater acoustic signals. We also present our range X-Sub: it is buoys which a submarine in dive can release and tow. The buoy goes back up on surface to pass on and receive data.It is buoys which a submarine in dive can release in a very direct way. The buoy goes back up on surface to pass on and receive data through optical fiber. After a while it flows and the submarine takes back its mission calmly. In the range of your products, SeaExplorer draws particularly the attention. SeaExplorer allows to collect submarine real time data. It proved its capacity to be used in the sector military or oil and gas or scientific sector, because we can program the sensors located in its nose according to the aimed mission. We intend to widen the range of this underwater glider capable of staying «during flight» for a long time (until 2 months) and without energy consumption; it trots by oscillations thanks to a roadbed. When it returns to the surface, it sends the data collected under the sea by a satellite link, then dives back for new missions. Two new models are in development, they will allow to reach bigger depths and to embark new sensors. Until then, SeaExplorer dived solo. We will be able to use it in pack from 2018. The technological equipment which designs Alseamar are proposed in the sale. But you can also rent them for specific missions. We propose what we call off-the-shelf products, for sale and adaptable to the use that our customers intend for, whether it is in the sector of the Defense, the oceanography or the oil & gas exploitation, as we’ve seen it for SeaExplorer. In this type of deals, we also offer a very efficient after-sales service, the result of our long experience in the domain, as well as the associated trainings. But we offer more. The Navy or a company can request missions in which we shall use our products to their benefits. It was the case with Detector for the research for flight recorders. We can also use SeaExplorer or our drones of surface SeaSurveyor, to supply to our customer a collection of data which he needs. The service also includes the analysis of these data. We can also study a request on specifications, analyze it then make equipment accordingly. It now happens with the English Ministry of Industry which held Alseamar to design and make a new system of research for flight recorders. We also lead numerous R&D studies, among which some very confidential for the benefit of the French MoD. A navy has to comply with the maintenance of its naval or submarine vessels. You propose a department of maintenance, search for obsolescence which allows to extend the life of these ships. The extension of thelife expectancy of the high value-added equipment is an economic requirement for Marine. We developed an engineering of services which answers this requirement, for repairing these systems, for spotting the obsolescence and for implementing a process of reengineering to recreate systems out-of-date or intended to be, or again for putting under cocoon the systems to maintain them in operational conditions. It is a fundamental part of our activity and a main advantage for our customers. You speak about customers. The sector of the Defense is an economic market. How does an export oriented SME tackle this market? All the markets are opened from now on. Alseamar was prepared and makes 50% of its turnover with export activities towards countries in North and South America, Asia and Middle-East. We have the ambition to adapt human resources in this way. We evolve beside the traditional big actors as DCNS in France, which opens important markets, support us, and to whom we bring all the skills of the Alcen group. Our engineers design very high-technology products and we acquired this capacity to register our specific skills in global projects. |
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