Dassault Aviation inaugurates new manufacturing plant near Paris
New production site signals revival of France’s aerospace and industrial capabilities
Dassault Aviation has inaugurated a new manufacturing plant near Paris
Dassault Aviation, a leading French aerospace company, has inaugurated its first new production facility since the 1970s in Cergy, northwest of Paris, marking a major milestone for French manufacturing industry.
Dassault Aviation has inaugurated a new manufacturing plant near Paris
Dassault Aviation, the leading defence aircraft manufacturer in France that is best known for Rafale and Mirage fighter jets, has inaugurated a new manufacturing plant near Paris, its first new plant in over 50 years.
In a press statement, Dassault says that the opening ceremony, presided over by Chairman and CEO Eric Trappier, alongside the plant’s employees, was attended by Philippe Court, the Prefect of Val d’Oise, and numerous elected officials, including Valérie Pécresse, President of Paris Regional Council, Marie Christine Cavecchi, President of Val d’Oise Departmental Council, and Jean-Paul Jardon, Mayor of Cergy and President of the Urban Community. Military authorities and representatives of the regional industrial ecosystem were also present.
“This is Dassault Aviation’s first new production facility since the 1970s. It sends a positive signal to the aerospace sector and to industry as a whole. France possesses unique expertise that we must preserve and develop within our national territory. This is a question of sovereignty, which is particularly vital in the current context. It is also an economic and social imperative, to meet the challenge of reindustrializing our country and creating jobs,” Trappier said on the occasion.
The new facility hosts more than 600 engineers, technicians, foremen and skilled workers
According to the statement, the state-of-the-art Cergy facility has taken over operations previously carried out at the now-outdated plant in Argenteuil assembly of Falcon and Rafale skin panels and small parts, forward fuselages assembly, Rafale fuselage outfitting, and metal hose production. The new facility hosts more than 600 engineers, technicians, foremen and skilled workers, mostly transferred from the company’s former plant in Argenteuil, also near Paris.
