SOFIA: Solutions for Industrial Metal Additive Manufacturing

Aubert & Duval participates to the applied research program SOFIA for metal additive manufacturing.

SOFIA’s ambition is to contribute to the development of this technology by working on the entire metal additive manufacturing value chain (powders, machines, processes). To that end, SOFIA fosters synergies between the skills provided by its high-level partners: industrial players, centered around the Fives Michelin Additive Solutions joint venture (Aubert & Duval, ESI Group, FUSIA, Michelin, Safran, VOLUM-E, Zodiac Aerospace) and academic institutions (the CNRS and the following research universities: Centrale Supelec, Centrale Nantes, Ecole Polytechnique, ENS Paris-Saclay (ENS Cachan), University Paris Diderot, University of Paris-Sud, Pierre and Marie Curie University – Paris VI).