Story
In 1990, they are four friends, start working in the fields of instrumentation, electricity and automatism for Industry. Since then, 1,300 employees have shared this entrepreneurial adventure. In the space of 30 years, the Lyon-based automation and instrumentation company has become a multi-trade engineering and automation company serving process industries on a national and international scale.
Since 2017, our reference shareholder has been the SNEF Group, a solid and independent French company for 115 years.
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2020Opening of a branch in Switzerland
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2019Signing of the largest turnkey project with Shepherd
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2018Integration of Air Consult Engineering (Belgium), ATEIM (Dunkirk), DI Ingénierie (Valenciennes) and Chleq Froté (Paris)
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2017The SNEF Group becomes the reference shareholder
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2015Integration of Ekium AMIO (Africa Middle east Indian Ocean
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2008Creation of the Ekium brand
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2007The investment fund Platina Participations becomes the reference shareholder
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1990Creation of Cira Concept
Key Figures
Solid financial results
Evolution of the workforce and turnover

Turnover extended by activity

A Safety & Quality culture
Our teams are continually mobilized to ensure the reliability of our interventions thanks to shared vigilance.
0,95
Frequency rate 1
1015
Talks per year
2,96
Frequency rate 2
188
On-site HSE visits
Data for the year 2019
0,01
Severity rate
119
Risk situations reported
Data for the year 2019
The QHSE Department manages Ekium’s quality, safety and radiation protection organization. It is composed of a department dedicated to strategy, working directly with the General Management, and a department dedicated to operational support, working directly with the Regional and Agency Departments.
A Culture Driven by Innovation
- The digitalization of processes: production, maintenance, quality
- A digital twin concierge service from design to operation/maintenance
- Production performance monitoring is carried out by a 100% cloud solution
- An interactive training solution based on augmented and virtual reality
- Artificial intelligence to control and improve productivity

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Digital Workshop
22
Events per year
2020
Visitors per year
12
Projects


In collaboration with EDF, we have developed a solution to improve the performance and efficiency of integrated safety systems for fire fighting. A patent has been filed, this solution is intended to be produced on a large scale.
Corporate Social
Responsibility
It applies to our economic relations with our partners, as well as to our structures, through the ethical management of our resources. We build career paths adapted to each individual, so as to meet individual and collective needs. We have set up a listening and advisory unit to support employees in their efforts or questions related to disability.
We protect the health of our teams and ensure well-being in the professional environment by applying a system for the prevention and treatment of psychosocial risks developed with our staff representative bodies and occupational medicine.


Aware of the desire of the younger generation to take action against climate change, engineering companies are initiating an unprecedented collective approach and are adopting a climate charter.

Ingera 2 is the first French network bringing together decision-makers in engineering, consulting and industry. Bringing together players in engineering and consulting with those in education and research is a priority for this cluster.