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FORVIA brings together the technological and industrial strengths of Faurecia & HELLA. With over 300 industrial sites and 77 R&D centers, 150,000 employees and more than 35,000 engineers in over 40 countries, FORVIA offers a global approach to automotive challenges. Comprising 6 BGs with 24 product lines and a strong intellectual property portfolio of over 14,000 patents, FORVIA's Sustainable Materials Division was created to support OEMs in their sustainable development objectives by providing advanced CO2-negative materials. The focus is on 3 families of materials: compounds, sheets and carbon fiber. FORVIA is at the forefront of innovation in biobased materials with its unique products such as NAFILean (hemp fiber-based compound and PP matrix), NFPP (PP natural fiber composite with compression technology) and Ecorium (premium biobased alternative to leather). FORVIA will further accelerate the transition from virgin materials to the best sustainable materials through this division.

INSA Lyon is a public scientific, cultural and professional institution with training and research missions, under the supervision of the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. It is characterized by a strong synergy between training and research, close proximity and rich and fruitful collaborations with the socio-economic world.
Our research strategy aims to develop work at the highest level of scientific excellence in the major disciplines of Engineering, but also to develop responsible and socially responsible research, in line with the founding human values of INSA Lyon as expressed by the two founding fathers of the establishment, Gaston Berger and Jean Capelle in 1957.

Kimya, 3D materials expertise at the service of manufacturers. A global solution for manufacturers wishing to integrate additive manufacturing into their production processes, whether for functional parts, tooling or small series. Kimya's expertise in polymers is the starting point for your projects. Kimya is committed to providing 3D printer manufacturers with products and services.

Pollen provides an industrial data and image analysis software platform for the production of innovative materials. By putting Artificial Intelligence at the service of users who are not experts in data science, it is aimed at process and R&D engineers who deal directly with process data. The platform's architecture makes it easy to integrate existing in-house algorithms, thanks to its plugin mechanism. For use cases not yet covered by existing tools, Pollen offers its AI expertise to study the feasibility of new solutions, and develop functional proofs of concept in Smart3. This methodology makes it possible to rapidly benefit from solutions that can be deployed on a production scale.

The University of Tours is a multi-disciplinary university and is fully involved in the Polymeris cluster's activities via its research laboratories, in particular the Gabriel Lamé Mechanics Laboratory (LaMé). The work of some members of the Laboratory focuses on the influence of elastomer materials manufacturing processes on the mechanical and physical properties induced, and their modeling. They make the link between microstructure and macroscopic behavior, whether in the initial state or after thermal, mechanical or coupled stresses...Members of the LaMé Laboratory are also involved in the bodies of the Pole Polymeris (CS).