Aerospace Propulsion & Equipment

Safran

Safran is a French multinational aerospace and defence company headquartered in Paris, organised across aircraft propulsion (CFM LEAP engines in partnership with GE), aircraft equipment (landing systems, nacelles), cabin interiors, and defence electronics. It is the world's second-largest aeroengine manufacturer by deliveries and a dominant supplier of aircraft landing gear and brakes. Safran's Academic Relations Department manages more than 200 active research partnerships with laboratories in France, Germany, the UK, and the US. Research topics include composite turbine-blade manufacturing, open-rotor aeroacoustics, ceramic matrix composites for hot-section components, and electric hybrid propulsion. Safran funds chairs at ONERA, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, and CentraleSupélec. The company is a central participant in CORAC, the French civil aviation research council, which coordinates industry-academia collaborative aeronautics programmes.

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