VALLOUREC : Vallourec launches its first Open Innovation Challenge
20 Septembre 2017 - 11:11AM
Vallourec launches its first Open Innovation
Challenge
Boulogne-Billancourt, 20 September 2017 -
Vallourec, a world leader in premium tubular solutions, is
launching its first "Open Innovation Challenge" on the theme of
intelligent tubes.
"The Group is consciously embracing Open
Innovation to exploit the opportunities allowed by new technologies
and thus develop its offer," explains Director of Innovation Sylvie
Dubois Decool.
"Intelligent" tubes could be designed to record
and transmit information during their lifecycle: either information
about the fluids in contact with the tubes (flow rate, pressure or
temperature) or related to changes in the tubes themselves (changes
in thickness, or crack detection).
Developments such as high-performance sensors,
low data transmission networks, big data, energy harvesting are
innovative technologies that open up new opportunities for
intelligent tubes.
This Open Innovation challenge enables Vallourec
to identify start-ups, laboratories and companies with expertise in
these different technologies, and to work with selected companies
to develop solutions adapted to the Group's markets.
It comes within the scope of Vallourec's
initiatives in terms of open innovation.
"Through its Open Innovation Challenge,
Vallourec is demonstrating its commitment to developing win-win
partnerships with agile, leading-edge companies on new
technologies. Our goal is to anticipate and take advantage of new
technologies to offer differentiating solutions for our customers
and consolidate Vallourec's leadership over the long term," says
Sylvie Dubois Decool.
How to apply
Signup: http://www.vallourec.com/EN/group/INNOVATION/Pages/Open-Innovation-Challenge.aspx
Applications can be submitted up to 3 November 2017. They will then
be pre-selected for presentation to the jury Pitches will be
presented on 13 November 2017. The selection committee will
announce the names of the selected partners during the week of 20
November 2017. The selected partners will work on their projects
with Vallourec over a period of around six months. |
About VallourecVallourec is a world
leader in premium tubular solutions for the energy markets and for
challenging industrial applications such as oil and gas wells in
harsh environments, new generation power plants, daring
architectural projects, and high-performance mechanical equipment.
Vallourec's pioneering spirit and cutting-edge R&D continually
open new technological frontiers. Operating in more than 20
countries, its 19,000 dedicated and passionate employees work
hand-in-hand with their customers to offer more than just tubes:
they deliver innovative, safe, competitive and smart tubular
solutions to make every project possible. Listed on the Euronext in
Paris (ISIN code: FR0000120354, Ticker VK) and eligible for the
Deferred Settlement Service (SRD), Vallourec is included in the
following indices: SBF 120 and Next 150. In the United States,
Vallourec has established a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary
Receipt (ADR) program (ISIN code: US92023R2094, Ticker: VLOWY). The
parity between the ADR and an ordinary Vallourec share is 5 for
1.
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