ALTEN becomes official partner of the ZEPHIR PROJECT

In our constant search to combine disruptive innovation and eco-responsible high performance, ALTEN will bring all our highly specialized engineering expertise to support the ZEPHIR PROJECT teams.

Founded by Marc Amerigo and Antoine Albeau (France’s most successful sportsman with 26 windsurfing world championships), this project combines performance and eco-responsibility. It aims to break records by drawing on the richness of nature through biomimicry and the most advanced technologies.

Bringing together more than 120 international experts and 70 engineering companies, from competitive sailing to motor racing, from aeronautics to space, PROJECT ZEPHIR aims to discover the secrets of “absolute gliding”.

ALTEN will play a key role in the project. Our professionals will contribute to the analysis and calculation of aerodynamic and hydrodynamic structures, as well as the physics of materials, applied to the design of the boards, foils and sails.

ALTEN Labs, the Group’s research and innovation laboratories, will also guide the choice of prototyping techniques. Through dynamic simulation, 3D scanning digitization, and comparative analysis, ALTEN will be able to evaluate the benefits of smart structures. Through intelligent sensors and multi-physics optimization research, our ambition is to contribute to breaking these world records.

You can find more information at alten.com.