Our 2025 exhibitors

The 4hfactory.tech platform is a digital space dedicated to the factory of today and tomorrow in the automotive industry, to be launched in 2020.

Complementary and cleverly organised areas:

An educational area
A 3D virtual factory
A database of resources
A collaborative watch on Industry 4.0

Organised around 5 main headings, the platform offers educational resources at information, acculturation, training and expertise levels; with chatbot and virtual factory navigation; and tools for creating customised training pathways.

4h Explore – Explore the virtual factory
4h Innov – Read innovative news
4h Training – Educate and train yourself
4h Creator – Create your own content
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In a rapidly changing world where companies and local authorities are working on decarbonising mobility, the development of recharging technologies is a crucial issue. This development requires easy access to hydrogen. Atawey has designed one of the widest ranges of hydrogen filling stations in Europe to recharge all types of vehicles when and where the user needs it – AnyTime, AnyWhere, EnergY.

ChemLabServices offers on-site analytical chemistry services designed to enhance companies’ agility in meeting operational and regulatory challenges. Each service is tailored to specific needs, including short- and medium-term project management, particularly in response to evolving standards (e.g. implementing hydrogen quality criteria according to ISO 14687). ChemLabServices also provides on-site development and validation of analytical methods, from feasibility studies (literature review, preliminary analysis…) to protocol optimization, all in compliance with the NF EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard.

Our start-up offers a disruptive sustainable fuel cell technology that generates its own green hydrogen. This green energy, which is set to become a benchmark for mobility by 2030, can also be applied to stationary applications or targeted sectors.és.

Last innovation

A film model illustrating the operation of the hydrogen source with its fuel cell can be shown.

With six decades of experience, CTI Systems is renowned as a leading partner for its project design and system integration expertise when it comes to handling or storing heavy loads.

CTI Systems is a material flow specialist with the ability to understand a customer’s unique requirements and develop them into highly individualised solutions, allowing interconnection of all production sequences in a safe, efficient and most cost-effective way.

With more than 1000 installations commissioned all over the years, CTI stands for highest quality and reliability. Thanks to significant capacity and efficiency gains achieved in industrial production and maintenance processes, all plants are designed to ensure a rapid return on a customer’s invest.

ENGIE, an industrial player committed to hydrogen
On the strength of its hydrogen expertise in some fifteen countries, ENGIE supports industry and the mobility sector with renewable, low-carbon hydrogen solutions. By 2035, the Group aims to develop 4 GW of hydrogen production capacity, as well as 700 km of pipelines, 1 TWh of underground storage capacity and around fifty distribution stations by 2030. ENGIE operates across the entire hydrogen value chain, from production to distribution, including pipeline transport and underground storage, to meet the carbon neutrality targets of its customers worldwide.

With 14 years’ experience in quality management, this expert has worked with numerous players in the automotive (PSA, Faurecia, Sogefi Air & Cooling, Sonceboz) and rail (Alstom Transport) industries on assignments covering the entire product life cycle: development, series production, supplier and customer relations, system quality and production quality.

Its areas of expertise cover a wide range: audits, problem analysis and resolution, risk assessment, lean manufacturing, SPC monitoring and deployment of CSR initiatives.

FIBA Technologies is globally recognized as a leading provider of gas containment equipment and services.

The only fully vertically integrated company in the industry, FIBA provides both manufacturing and servicing, including DOT tubes and ASME pressure vessels, tube trailers and skids (MEGCs), cryogenic products, and equipment repair, rehabilitation, and requalification services. Our equipment is offered both for sale and lease.

Founded in 2017 in Belfort, H2SYS develops, designs and manufactures innovative solutions using hydrogen, a green technology that plays a part in the energy transition: fuel cells, stationary and mobile generators.

HYDAC is a leading supplier of fluid technology, thermo-management and electronics for over 60 years and employs more than 9,500 people worldwide. The breadth of our product portfolio, combined with our proven expertise in development, manufacturing, sales and service, enables us to provide innovative solutions to a wide range of challenges all over the world, including e-mobility and hydrogen applications.

Last innovations:

Plug&play cooling system for thermo-management of key components of a fuel cell system
Mounting system for H2 tank
TPRD sensor

Hynamics is the 100% subsidiary of the EDF group that produces and markets low-carbon hydrogen; it addresses the two markets that emit the most CO2: industry, public and heavy professional mobility, including synthetic fuels.
It produces its hydrogen by water electrolysis, a technology that does not emit CO2 when the electricity itself comes from decarbonized means of production.

Last innovations: 

Hynamics offers a turnkey solution: it invests in production and distribution facilities and builds, operates and maintains the installations.

JR Automation design, build, and integrate advanced automation solutions for industrial manufacturers and distributors all over the world. Whether your needs are related to EV batteries, fuel cells, EV powertrains, charging and energy storage, or other subsystems, we know the processes from spatial optimization for manufacturing lines to the automation to create scalability to quality, accuracy and safety.

KST is positioned as one of Europe’s largest, independent Service Suppliers providing internal combustion engine testing, EDU and inverter test work, hydrogen engine and fuel cell testing, including specialty
testing such as tilt testing, rotor and stator testing, prototype validation, etc. (comprehensive service portfolio available on https://kst-motorenversuch.de/en/ ) . All tests are performed according to industry standards.

Convince yourself of our competence! We will actively support you and address your specific needs!

Service portfolio

– Electric / hybrid drives

– Power electronics / inverter incl. HIL

– Hydrogen combustion engines

– Fuel cell systems / Electrolysers / Stacks

– Synthetic fuels / operating materials

– Large engines

– Future-oriented technologies   for internal combustion engines

Ligier Automotive is a French manufacturer of race cars, based in Magny-Cours, founded in 2013 under the name Onroak Automotive.
Specializing in the design and production of endurance prototypes (LMP2, LMP3), single-seaters (F4, F3), and GT cars, the company also offers advanced engineering services and the development of special vehicles. It operates several sites in France and the United States, allowing it to meet the needs of racing teams and international automotive manufacturers.

METRA can support you across the entire hydrogen value chain, in both the mobility and industrial sectors.
We can offer you comprehensive, proven, innovative and competitive solutions, from the production phase (via electrolysers), analysis, compression and/or expansion, storage / filling of trailers (grounding controllers) through to low and high pressure metering using Coriolis mass flowmetry (OIML R137 / R139 certification), not forgetting temperature and pressure sensors, gas detectors (ultrasonic, catalytic and acoustic) and flame detectors!

Mincatec Energy develops and produces a game-changing industrial solid hydrogen storage solution. Our metal hydride-based product operates in a range from 1 to 50 bar at ambient temperature. This enables us to bring to market a high-density hydrogen storage solution that is safe, affordable and environmentally friendly, paving the way for rapid decarbonization of a wide range of sectors: industry, renewable energies, off-road, rail and maritime mobility…

We offer solutions for measuring and analyzing moisture, oxygen, liquid, steam, and gas flow with proven technologies that are well-known and widely deployed across many industries, including oil and gas.

Whether you’re looking for flare management solutions to achieve regulatory compliance, custody transfer flowmeters to ensure the accuracy of your high-value assets, moisture and gas analyzers to stay on top of your moisture levels, or you require outside expertise to support your current processes – we have a solution for you.

For over 25 years, Texys Group has been designing, developing, manufacturing and distributing on-board and laboratory solutions for measuring physical quantities (inertia, temperature, force, current, pressure, etc.), and is recognised worldwide for its expertise in various technologies (infrared, fibre optics, extensometry, wireless communication, signal conditioning), notably through its Texense® brand.

With 60 employees on 5 sites (3x FR, 1x USA, 1x GER) and a solid distribution network throughout the world, Texys continues to expand by integrating new technologies and innovations, in particular fibre optic measurement thanks to Optel-Texys and LGS by Texys in early 2020. The H2 Motronics design office, a Texys subsidiary dedicated to specific projects in electronics, mechatronics and mechanics, offers retro-engineering to shape ever more innovative solutions, particularly in the hydrogen ecosystem.

Texys’ products and solutions are tailor-made for a wide range of applications and business sectors, particularly motorsports but also the aeronautics, defence, automotive, aerospace and rail industries.

At the end of 2023, Texys and FOGALE Sensors joined forces to form a new group driven by a taste for innovation and an appetite for technological challenges.

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The UTBM trains engineers who are quickly operational and particularly adaptable to changes in technology and society. Its training is based on research activities and their transfer to business through a network of more than 9,800 partner companies. Member of the network of universities of technology, the UTBM welcomes more than 2800 students, thanks to which it is positioned as the 7th most important engineering training in France and the 6th school for the development of entrepreneurship.

Latest innovation: 

The UTBM will present jointly with MINCATEC Energy, a demonstrator of a four-cycle vehicle integrating a hydrogen electric traction chain build in the framework of the BPI – region BFC project called SHYPAGE.