Our 2026 exhibitors

ACTOAT is an Engineering and Technology Consulting company founded in 2010, bringing together experts from a wide range of fields. Our engineering teams are based in France, located both in the Paris region and in the Pays de Montbéliard, as well as in Casablanca, Morocco.

Expertise, passion, innovation, and the societal values upheld by our employees are the driving forces behind our success in delivering projects and fostering talent.

ACTOAT is recognized within the automotive industry for its expertise in both Active and Passive Safety. We are involved at every stage of a new product’s lifecycle—from the early design phase to final validation. Our teams apply their skills across digital engineering, physical testing, and validation.

Many of our capabilities extend well beyond the automotive sector. Our advanced digital approach and our methodologies for product safety—particularly in control-command systems—are just a few examples.

Committed to the future of our planet, ACTOAT has chosen to actively contribute to the energy transition, helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Our involvement in the CORNET project, in collaboration with FCLAB, represents a major opportunity to deploy fuel cell powertrain technology in heavy transport.

ACTOAT is dedicated to continuous improvement, working closely with a wide range of partners and always fostering a “win-win” mindset.

The Agence nationale pour la formation professionnelle des adultes has been serving employment for 80 years.

Some figures for 2023

160,715 people enrolled, including 86,100 trainees and 67,900 people supported

Regional coverage with 126 centres

655 million in sales

5% rate of access to employment

Our core business: vocational training

With 5 key ambitions:

Support each individual in their professional project

Successfully integrate those furthest from the labour market into the world of work

Provide companies with the skills they need to remain competitive

Promoting regional economic development

Anticipating emerging skills

42 skills incubators, including a Hydrogen incubator at the AFPA centre in Belfort

State-funded

To respond to changes in professions

Training courses co-developed with companies and local authorities

The AFPA is developing hydrogen incubators in the following areas:

Metal processing

Heavy vehicle mechanic assembler

Production and maintenance of autonomous H2 production/distribution units

Industrial maintenance (Belfort)

We offer companies

Training tailored to :

– meet attractiveness and recruitment needs

– enable employees to upgrade their skills

– facilitate access to shortage occupations

A CFA and its apprenticeship solutions

Co-constructing the skills of tomorrow

Profiles

Feintool is a recognized global leader in precision cutting, stamping of rotor and stator packs, and deep drawing. We design and mass-produce precision steel components that meet the most stringent requirements of the automotive, energy infrastructure, and industrial sectors.

Thanks to our FEINforming technology, we are able to produce compact, lightweight bipolar plates and interconnectors. This breakthrough enables optimal stack densification, a significant reduction in system weight, and improved energy efficiency—essential advantages for next-generation fuel cells and electrolysers.

At Feintool, we combine proven technical expertise with a strategy of continuous innovation to support renewable energy players in optimizing their performance, reducing costs, and accelerating time-to-market. Through intelligent use of materials and operational excellence, we provide our partners with a sustainable competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving market.

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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.

HYDAC has been a leading supplier of fluid management, thermal management, and electronics solutions for over 60 years and employs more than 9,500 people worldwide. The breadth of our product portfolio, combined with our recognized expertise in development, manufacturing, sales, and service, enables us to provide innovative solutions worldwide to address a wide range of challenges, particularly in e-mobility and hydrogen.

Latest innovations:

Plug-and-play cooling system for thermal management of key components in a fuel cell system

Mounting systems for Type IV H2 tanks

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.

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.

KST is one of Europe’s largest independent service providers. It offers testing of internal combustion engines, power generation units (PGUs), and inverters, as well as hydrogen engines and fuel cells, including specialized tests such as tilt tests, rotor and stator tests, prototype validation, and more. (Full range of services available at www.kst-motorenversuch.de). All testing is conducted in accordance with industry standards.

See our expertise for yourself! We will actively support you and meet your specific needs!

Range of Services

– Electric and hybrid powertrains

– Power electronics, inverters

– Hydrogen powertrains and electrolysers

– Synthetic fuels

– Heavy-duty and high-power engines

– New technologies for internal combustion engines

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…

UTBM trains engineers who are quickly ready for the workforce and particularly adaptable to technological advancements and societal changes. Its programs are grounded in research activities and the application of research through a network of more than 9,800 partner companies. As a member of the network of technology universities, UTBM enrolls over 2,800 students, making it the 7th largest engineering program in France and the 6th leading school for entrepreneurship development.

Latest innovations:

UTBM will jointly present with INCATEC Energy a demonstration model of a four-wheeled vehicle featuring a hydrogen-electric powertrain, developed as part of the BPI–BFC region project known as SHYPAGE.

A century of expertise in metal transformation at the heart of one of France’s largest automotive manufacturing regions.

A family-owned group with 350 employees, continuing to grow…

Our expertise:

• Development and manufacturing of tooling
• Product development in co-design
• Prototype production
• Design and construction of equipment and inspection systems
• Cutting / Stamping / Bending
• Automatic presses – 30 to 1000 tons
• Servo presses – 300, 400 and 630 tons
• Transfer presses – 400 and 500 tons
• Secondary operation presses – 15 to 320 tons and 500-ton hydraulic
• Deep drawing
• Tapping and clinching within the tooling
• Processing of all steels and aluminum
• Thickness from 0.6 to 6 mm
• Strip width up to 1 m – Feeding line with straightener
• Laser cutting (2-axis and 5-axis) – Table 1500 × 3000
• Press brakes – 80 to 100 tons
• Assembly and welding
• 6-axis MAG welding robots / 6-axis spot welding robots
• PRP spot welding
• Crimping and clinching
• Sealing
• Bonding
• Silicone application
• Installation of foam, seals… (1 or 2 components)
• Leak testing
• Surface treatment
• Mass finishing – deburring, polishing
• Shot blasting – rust removal, adhesion preparation
• Degreasing – passivation
• Particle cleaning

Certifications:

• IATF 16949 (Automotive certification)
• ISO 9001 certification

Group quality system – Group ethical charter

CSR commitments:

• Raw materials sourced in France
• Subcontracting purchases made from long-standing partners located within a 50 km radius