Shareholder's Guide 2022

Intact develops industrial quality control tests. What does this involve in concrete terms?

We have designed a robot that allows us to model the interior of a structure in 3D, without affecting the integrity of the equipment. Our solution enables quality control of all types of metallic or composite structures, avoiding industrial risks and improving the safety of operators, all while improving operational efficiency.

ALIAD, Air Liquide’s venture capital investor, has invested in Intact. Why this partnership?

To start, there was the meeting between Ekoscan and Air Liquide’s R&D teams in 2015. Together, we developed a customized monitoring solution for the inspection of hydrogen purification units and a robot to deploy this technology in an automated manner on Air Liquide’s industrial sites. We then decided to create the start-up Intact in partnership with ALIAD, who participates in Intact’s governance and helps us to grow faster.

What does Air Liquide bring you, beyond the financial investment?

We regularly exchange with their materials engineering experts to better understand the equipment we control and its integrity. Commercially, the fact that we have been able to test our technologies for Air Liquide enables us to propose very convincing business cases to our other customers.