Presence of well renowned companies

 

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Western Switzerland is considerably enriched by the presence of many global companies of the highest reputation requiring and using microtechnologies. They bring to the region an international, cosmopolitan flavor and confirm the region’s place as one of the leading economic regions in Europe in the field of microtechnology.

 

Menu :
• Clockmaking and watchmaking, luxury goods
• Medical instruments & equipment
• Machinery, industrial equipment & automation
• Telecommunications, information systems & communication systems
• Electronics, microelectronics & semiconductors
• Metrology, measuring & dimensional inspection instruments
• Equipment and components for the aerospace & aeronautics industry
• Equipment and components for the automotive industry
• Other branches of activity, industry groups

 

Clockmaking and watchmaking, luxury goods :

• Audemars Piguet
• Blancpain
• Bulgari Time
• Gucci (Luxury Timepieces International)
• Jaeger Lecoultre
• LVMH (Tag Heuer, Ebel, Zenith, Christian Dior)
• Montres Breguet
• Parmigiani
• Swatch Group (Swatch, Tissot, Omega, Rado, Blancpain, Longines, Montres Breguet)

 

Medical instruments & equipment :

• B. Braun Medical

Manufacture of plastic packagings specially designed for the medical world (in particular flexible pouches for urology).

• Beckman Coulter

Marketing of medical analysis instruments produced by companies of the Beckman Coulter group.

• Codman Neuro Sciences (Groupe Johnson & Johnson)

Medical products such as drug distribution systems (pumps), implants and instruments.

• Debiotech

R&D work on medical equipment, microtechnology, micromechanics, microelectronics.

• Dentsply / Maillefer

Production of dental instruments (bur chucks, etc.).

• EMS Electro Medical Systems

Design, production and sale of dental prophylaxis, cleaning and treatment equipment and equipment for urological treatment, prosthesis repair and pain treatment (traumatotherapy).

• Medos (Groupe Johnson & Johnson)

Valve systems for hydrocephalus treatment.

• Medtronic

Manufacture of pacemakers and nerve stimulators.

• Socorex

Micrometering devices and laboratory dosage devices, micropipettes, laboratory dosage syringes, veterinary syringes.

• Stryker Ostoenics

Distribution and marketing of medical and orthopaedic equipment.

• Symbios orthopedie

Production of orthopaedic prostheses.

• Unimed

Medical accessories and taps for catheterisation, laboratories or other medical or surgical applications; special needles (puncture, biopsy, pneumothorax, cardiovascular, ophthalmological, pneumoperitonium, radiography, etc.); suture needles for human, dental and veterinary medicine; pipetting needles for analysis systems.

 

Machinery, industrial equipment & automation :

• 4M Systems

Design and marketing of production lines for compact discs in all formats (pressing); glass and nickel master forms for the production of compact disc in all formats.

• Bobst

Leading supplier in the world of equipment and services for the compact cardboard, corrugated board and flexible materials packaging industry.

• Fluid Automation Systems

Research and development, production and sale of solenoid valves for all industrial applications; manufacture of automation components.

• Ismeca

Supplier of semiconductors and coil systems, production of complex automatic assembly lines for mass production of industrial and consumer goods, assembly of lines for medical instruments and for bio-medical diagnosis.

• Mikron

Automated assembly lines for mass production (automotive industry, etc.).

 

Telecommunications, information systems & communication systems :

• Agilent

World leader in technological research in areas such as metrology, semiconductors, life sciences, telecommunications, etc

• Kudelski

Established worldwide, the Kudelski Group is headquartered in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland. It comprises several companies active in the following sectors: access control and digital television management and broadband Internet services (Nagravision, MediaCrypt, Lysis, Livewire), physical access and ticketing (NagraCard, SportAccess, TicketCorner), health cards (e-prica), electronic voting and cyber-administration (Polirights).

• Logitech

World leader in the design, production and marketing of peripherals serving as a natural, intuitive interface between the user and the computer. Pointing devices, wired or wireless, such as mouses and trackballs, and game peripherals, keyboards, video cameras for PC, multimedia speakers, listening headsets for PCs, etc.

• Siemens
Design, production and marketing of electrical and electronic components and apparatus.

 

Electronics, microelectronics & semiconductors :

• Agilent

World leader in technological research in areas such as metrology, semiconductors, life sciences, telecommunications, etc.

• Cicorel

Cicorel develops technologies for linking electronic components (electrical interconnections in the form of printed circuit boards) which provide connections between microchips and other components.

• EM Microelectronic

Production of microelectronic and electronic products, especially solid-state products, and in particular in the areas of integrated circuits and sensors, micromechanics products, display systems, electronic systems and software.

• Lιmo

Global leader in the design and manufacture of precision custom connection solutions. Lemo's high quality push-pull connectors are found in a variety of challenging application environments including medical, industrial control, test and measurement, audio-video, and telecommunications.

• Valtronic

Design, production and marketing of miniaturised electronic components and modules, especially for hearing aids, sensors, microcomputers, telecommunications and medical equipment.

• Xemics

Design, production and marketing of miniaturised electronic components and modules, especially for hearing aids, sensors, microcomputers, telecommunications and medical equipment.

 

Metrology, measuring & dimensional inspection instruments :

• Agilent

World leader in technological research in areas such as metrology, semiconductors, life sciences, telecommunications, etc.

• Rueger

Production of temperature and pressure measuring instruments (thermoelectric sensors), mechanical temperature measuring instruments (bimetallic thermometers, gas pressure thermometers), and pressure measuring instruments (pressure gauges).

• TESA

Mechanical and electronic instruments for dimensional inspection.

• Thermo Electron

Manufacturer of instruments for dimensional inspection (spectrometers).

 

Equipment and components for the aerospace & aeronautics industry :

• Apco

Design and production of mechanical and electromechanical equipment for space, nuclear and production industry.

• Mecanex

R&D and production of electromechanical and microtechnology assemblies (commutator-brush assemblies, checking devices, test benches, miscellaneous sensors); R&D and production of instruments for space biology research.

 

Equipment and components for the automotive industry :

• Del West

Design and production of mechanical parts for racing car engines (mainly F1), resistance tests, design engineering and research on new concepts for the upper engine block + engineering office.

 

Other branches of activity, industry groups :

• GIM-CH - Groupement suisse de l'industrie mιcanique
• Swiss Society for Optics and Microscopy
• SWISSMEM