Innovation Cells
Innovation Cells is Constellium’s specialized innovation unit that helps our divisions to improve and enrich our products and processes, explore new markets, and foster growth across all our businesses activities.
Sharing knowledge
The unit works with all our primary business activities. In partnership with these teams, Constellium’s Innovation Cells unit helps transform and develop ideas into concepts, working on anything from idea generation to prototypes and business plans.
A multidisciplinary team
“At Innovation Cells, they build bridges between R&D and industrial applications, between ideas and market needs, and between corporations and universities. By living Open Innovation, they help us to write a new chapter of our story”, Fabienne Le Tadic, Vice President Marketing, Constellium’s Global Aerospace,Transportation and Industry business unit.
Innovation Cells services
Specifically, Constellium’s business areas can benefit from the wide range of services Innovation Cells offers.
- Materials engineering: technology scouting, material and process selection, prototype development, technology scale-up;
- New product development: customer needs identification, market potential evaluation, partner identification, business case development;
- Innovation management: innovation process optimization, “ideation” (idea generation), innovation coaching.
Putting ideas into action
Since its creation in 2008, Innovation Cells has supported four business units on 10 innovation projects. These include a solar collector for our Specialty Sheet business unit, aluminium foam for our Global ATI business unit, and an innovative aluminium solution in the renewable energy market for our Extrusions and Automotive Structures business unit.
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Key-fact
Since its inception in 2008, Innovation Cells has worked with four Constellium business units on 10 innovation projects.