History of the Slicom Group
The Slicom family group was created by Thierry ONDET who is the principal shareholder.
1995: Creation of SLICOM (Engineering Industry Laser Sandblasting)
Thierry Ondet sells his food trading business to embark upon an industrial venture. He sets up an industrial capital goods maintenance unit in Clermont-Ferrand under the name of Slicom. With Michelin and Aubert & Duval as its first customers, the company develops rapidly thanks to the expansion of its know-how which leads to the creation of special purpose machines.
2000: Creation of SECCMAS in the aeronautics sector
The first diversification with the creation of Seccmas (research and construction in metal work and mechanics in the aeronautics and space industry). This unit specialising in metal work, machining, assembly and maintenance of aircraft structures is set up at the end of 2001 on the new industrial zone to the south of the Clermont-Ferrand-Auvergne airport.
2004: Aeronautics Acquisition
DACAR, an Auxerre-based aeronautical engineering company, is taken over and called SM2A (aeronautical and space engineering company). With this acquisition, the group extends its aeronautics offer to the manufacture of mechanical sub-assemblies and surface treatment.
2004: Creation of an industrial integration company
With VINCI Energies Rhône Alpes-Auvergne as an equal shareholder, ISI (industrial integration and solutions) is created to provide comprehensive facility management, from design to commissioning.
Takeover of the Taillandier Ingénierie design office which was integrated into ISI in 2008.
2005: Internationalization
The group gradually asserts its international dimension by the location of its customers (Europe, North America and Asia) and by the implementation of alliances that enable it to operate in emerging countries, particularly India where a project organization is opened in Bangalore to build up a network of subcontractors
2007: Structuring the Slicom group
Creation of the Slicom International holding company containing the group’s management and support services.
Creation of the company Slicom Aéro, resulting from the Merger of the two aeronautical companies SECCMAS and SM2A.
The metal work and mechanics company at the origin of the group is named Slicom Technologies.
2008: Establishing sites in India and Tunisia
The Tunisian company SAT Industrie is created and a 2,000 m2 industrial workshop is opened in an industrial area of Tunis to extend the aeronautical machining and sheet-metal activities.
The subsidiary ISI creates the Indian branch 2IS. The Bangalore-based unit is in charge of monitoring local production and local commercial relations on behalf of the group’s different divisions.
2008: Acquisition in aeronautical services
Acquisition of the aeronautic assets management company AIRSET, with a view to expanding the aeronautics offering and moving towards a comprehensive service in aircraft maintenance and retrofitting.
2009: Acquisition in hydropower
Via its subsidiary ISI, the group offers to buy the assets of the company H3E and the brand AQUALIENNE under which the latter designs and develops hydroelectric eco-turbines. This acquisition is in line with its strategy to diversify into the energy market.
2010: Acquisition in the aeronautic sector
The group takes over the Auvergne Aeraunotic's industrial sites located at Aulnat and Cournon d'Auvergne. This strategic acquisition consolidates his position in sheet metal working, assembly and aeronautical repair in the mind of the major clients. The new company is called Auvergne Aéronautique Slicom.
Thanks to this takeover, the groupe aquires 80% shares of Casablanca Aéronautique.
this company is specialized in the sector of sheet metal working, assembly and surface treatment.
The Slicom Group
The Slicom Group
The Slicom Group
The Slicom Group
The Slicom Group
Figures
FIGURES (2011)
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Turn Over
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55 M€ |
| Manpower Fance |
535 |
Manpower Morocco
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180
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Own Capital
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10 M€
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| Investments |
5% TO
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| Export |
20% TO
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Factories
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6 |
A competitive, comprehensive and international offering
Integration, internationalization and diversification are the foundations of our development strategy.
Providing comprehensive services to meet all requirements
With mechanics as its core business, the Slicom group is a global integrator of industrial goods and services which provides comprehensive services to meet all requirements, from design to maintenance.
To provide this comprehensive service, the group draws on the skills and equipment of its own units and on a network of French and foreign partners known for their technological know-how and competitiveness.
With its expertise in engineering, industrialisation, production (machining, metal work, mechanised welding), special processes, surface treatments, assembly and repairs – as well as in the supply chain, the Slicom group proposes a secure, turnkey offering of goods and services.
Producing, buying and selling all over the world
Slicom group’s development strategy is based on the internationalization of its markets, its suppliers and its production sites.
Our customers and delivery sites are spread out in many European countries - France, Spain, Italy, Germany, England, Poland and Romania – but also in China, India Canada and Latin America.
Our international competitiveness is based on three key factors: our purchase and logistics engineering, our low and middle cost production capacities in India and Tunisia and our specialised French units which ensure the security of production in emerging countries.
In the coming years, to continue supporting its customers in all parts of the world and offer them optimal production costs, the group is planning to set up more international sites and partnerships, particularly in the Americas.
Diversifying customer sectors
The Slicom group intends to continue its diversification policy in order to take advantage of the opportunities offered by growth sectors such as energy, railways, defence, etc.
Its five-year business plan reflects the group’s desire to enter the nuclear energy sector and considerably strengthen its position there. It eventually hopes to devote a quarter of its activity to this sector.
For this purpose, the group shall engage in growth by acquisition in order to upgrade its current know-how, particularly in the machining and assembling of large sized parts, by bringing in skills that are specific to this field of activity.
Slicom Group's Enduring Purpose
The Slicom group has given itself a clear set of values on which to forge its identity.
All Slicom staff strive to achieve shared objectives.
Slicom's staff, at all levels of responsibility, undertake to apply these values and pursue these objectives, in their day-to-day work, to gain and maintain customers' trust.
OUR VALUES
Team spirit: understanding and respect of others and ideas, sharing know-how, solidarity, with the need for reliability, mutual trust and cohesion.
Ongoing improvement: commitment, individuals and teams surpassing themselves, requiring a capacity for hard work, ability to challenge and to use one’s initiative.
Sense of responsibility: responsibility for oneself, one's decisions and actions; responsibility to customers, suppliers and company partners; responsibility to the company and the environment.
OUR SHARED OBJECTIVES
Organisational efficacy: constantly mobilise all competences within the company to provide industrial goods and services at optimal cost and efficiency.
Commercial performance: provide a competitive offering in terms of price, elapsed time and quality, while ensuring a profit, customer loyalty and enhanced commercial standing of the company.
Sustainable growth: assess each decision in terms of its contribution to the company's medium- and long-term growth, to ensure its sustainable success.
OUR SHARED DUTY
Customer satisfaction: ensure customer satisfaction while respecting our values and achieving our objectives.
Integrator of industrial products and services
Slicom Group is a mechanical integrator who ensure a full management of your request, from design up to maintenance.
It is developing its activity in the main fields of aircraft industry and space, industrial goods production and energy industries.
Know how from production to maintenance
The offer of the group:
- Engineering, international sourcing, design leadership, project management
Best cost process
Its knowledge and manufacturing means in its premises in France and Abroad, added to its design, manufacturing engineering and international sourcing capabilities, allow an optimum technical reply and competitive trade.
An independant group
His strong and independent financial structure gives good possibility of development supporting its clients in their industrial strategy and in their way to reduce cost as well.
OPTIPOA
Slicom Group and his board have always been taking care about employees's well being. The OPTIPOA action isn't going to break this strong commitment that we have decided long time ago:
"Ensure ourselves that our employees fell confortable at work"
OPTIPOA or "Optimize the purchasing power" contributes to life conditions improvements by offering discounts and special opportunities on several services, from food to fuel.
The idea is from Marcel LALITTE, director of human ressources, and his team is attracting more and moe people.
download Optipoa presenation or reach the website: www.optipoa.fr
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