2e France-Québec Symposium - Aéro Montréal supports five Québec-France
partnership agreements

MONTREAL, Nov. 26 /CNW Telbec/ - As the leader of the delegation representing Québec's aerospace centre of excellence, Aéro Montréal is proud to support five partnership agreements and a list of four exploratory projects among members of Québec's aerospace cluster and French companies, research and educational institutions.

To confirm their intentions, the various Québec and French participants signed agreements at a ceremony attended by Jean Charest, Québec Premier, and Christine Lagarde, French Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry, at the closing of the second Symposium on French competitive clusters and Québec centres of excellence in Paris today.

The establishment of these nine projects is the result of work and discussions that took place during the aerospace component of the Symposium on November 24 and 25. They correspond to the Symposium themes of sustainable development, human capital and autonomous systems and satellites.

"These structural cooperation projects among members of Aéro Montréal and their French partners once again reflect our commitment to increase Québec-France collaboration that was formalized with the signing of a letter of intent between Aéro Montréal and Aerospace Valley in 2007," said Suzanne M. Benoît, CEO of Aéro Montréal. "We hope that these collaborations will generate benefits for our respective clusters, as others have done in the past."

About Aéro Montréal

Aéro Montréal, Québec's aerospace cluster, is a think tank that brings together all the major decision makers in Québec's aerospace sector, including companies, educational and research institutions, associations and unions.

Aéro Montréal's mission is to mobilize industry players around common goals and focused actions to increase cohesion and optimize competitiveness. By fostering the growth and expansion of Greater Montréal's aerospace cluster, it intends to make this industry an increasingly important source of wealth creation for the Montréal region, Québec and Canada.

List of partnership agreements signed November 26 in Paris

1. Project CHOC "Study of the behaviour of composites under impact in aircraft structures"
   Partners: Université Laval and Astrium Space Transportation.
   
   Provide research offices that measure impact on structures made with composite materials tools enabling them to choose materials, fibre architectures (tow, fabrics), lay-up sequences to minimize sensitivity to small impacts (low power and low speed) of working structures (primary structures).
   
   
2. Collaboration and technology transfer framework contract for the manufacture by injection of complex composite parts for applications in the aerospace sector.
   Partners: École Polytechnique de Montréal and Groupe SAFRAN
   
   Manufacture through flexible injection a demonstration complex composite part for a high-performance aerospace application. The area of application is aeronautical propulsion.
   
   
3. Innovate through the reengineering of human capital logistics
   Partners: JMJ Aeronautics and GLE Vénétis
   
   Implementation of a model for sharing employees within a group of companies.
   
   
4. Cabin Comfort and Air Quality Project
   Partners: Bombardier Aerospace and Liebherr Aerospace Toulouse SAS
   
   Improvement of passenger comfort and air quality in aircraft. Objectives: conversion of ozone and VOCs removal, moisture management, cabin acoustics, external acoustics.
   
   
5. GNSS satellite positioning and multi-sensor navigation
   Partners: École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) and ISAE Toulouse
   
   Develop the combination of multi-GNSS signals (collective processing, differences between the different constellations, etc.) and multi-sensor navigation through advanced fusion approaches (support, ultra-tight pairing, characterization and modeling of sensors, etc.).

For further information:

Amélie Hudon
Senior Communication Advisor
Aéro Montréal
Tel.: [phone]
www.aeromontreal.ca