INDUSTRY EMEA: WHAT'S NEW
TCS Opens New Delivery Centre in France to Drive AI-Powered Transformation for the Aerospace and Defence Industries
Tata Consultancy Services has inaugurated a new delivery center in Toulouse, France. The delivery centre will facilitate AI-driven transformation and foster innovation to improve aircraft design, manufacturing, and maintenance processes for European clients. This includes enhancing fuel efficiency, developing advanced materials for lighter aircraft structures, and implementing predictive maintenance to minimize downtime, improve safety, and redefine the passenger experience of the future. This delivery centre is strategically located in Blagnac near Toulouse Airport to be closer to customers in the aerospace industry. This is TCS’ fourth delivery center in France after Lille, Poitiers, and Paris-Suresnes.
By adopting a ‘glocal’ approach—combining local engagement with global capabilities—TCS aims to replicate the success of its existing delivery hubs in Lille, Poitiers, and the Paris region. In 2024, TCS ranked first in customer satisfaction for the sixth consecutive year in an independent survey by Whitelane Research.
The delivery center in Toulouse will play a pivotal role in accelerating recruitment in the region, leveraging the local talent pool, academic partnerships, and TCS’ existing capabilities in France. As a certified Top Employer in France, TCS is committed to fostering talent development and promoting innovation, particularly through strong collaborations with leading schools and universities such as P?le Léonard de Vinci and EPITA. These partnerships aim to equip future generations with the skills needed to thrive in an evolving digital landscape.
Oman Broadband Company and ST Engineering Collaborate on Smart City Initiatives
Oman Broadband Company, a leading provider of fibre-optic infrastructure services in the Sultanate of Oman, and ST Engineering’s Urban Solutions business, a leading provider of smart city solutions, have entered into a landmark cooperation programme to collaborate on smart city initiatives in Oman. Supporting the digital transformation objectives and strategic ambitions of Oman Vision 2040, the collaboration will focus on developing an advanced digital infrastructure that meets future requirements, solutions that improve quality of life for residents and enhance the sustainability of the Sultanate.
Under the Programme, Oman Broadband Company and ST Engineering Urban Solutions will jointly explore and collaborate on smart city initiatives to enhance urban and community development in Oman. Oman Broadband will provide cutting-edge fibre-optic infrastructure to enable digital transformation, while ST Engineering Urban Solutions will contribute its expertise in the areas of smart mobility, smart utilities and smart city operations platforms, to provide integrated smart city solutions that enable urban efficiencies and advance sustainability.
Through this collaboration, Oman Broadband Company aims to enhance its leadership in the telecommunications and digital infrastructure sector, paving the way for a more advanced and sustainable technological future in the Sultanate.
The programme comes as part of the Sultanate’s efforts to support its vital sectors with the latest smart technologies and innovative solutions that will make the Sultanate of Oman a regional hub for technology and knowledge.
Fives pioneers innovative OTO plasma cutting technology for tube mills
Fives has partnered with a leading European tube manufacturer to develop a new OTO flying plasma cut-off system.
Tube makers often face challenges in the cutting process due to stringent product standards that demand high quality, efficiency and versatility while maintaining low operating costs. The OTO plasma cut-off is an innovative solution that uses a high-temperature jet of ionized gas to melt and remove material along the cutting path, creating a smooth and precise surface. Compared to conventional saw or blade cutting, the plasma solution enables fast, high-quality cuts on a wide range of tubes (CHS, RHS, SHS, SPECIAL). It significantly reduces mechanical stress and equipment wear, and eliminates the need for blade replacement.
Fives is currently testing both a traditional and an automated system for its OTO tube mills. The traditional fifth-wheel solution has a robust design. A plasma torch is attached to a rotating fifth wheel, allowing the plasma to follow a continuous path along the tube. On the other hand, the advanced automation technology works with robots, making it particularly suitable for high-capacity production and complex cuts. The robots can perform curved, angled, and 45-degree cuts with high precision, even on irregular tubes. This allows maximum flexibility to adapt to different production formats, which minimizes operator intervention.
The innovative solution will soon be available on the market to meet customer needs.
MAHLE Builds Germany’s Largest Photovoltaic Thermal Plant
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MAHLE is decarbonizing its production site in Vaihingen-Enz (Baden-Württemberg / Germany) with a state-of-the-art photovoltaic thermal (PVT) plant. It uses more than 1,000?PVT modules from Sunmaxx, a leading European manufacturer of PVT hybrid modules. MAHLE is strategic investor and development partner of Sunmaxx. Germany’s largest photovoltaic thermal plant is being built on an area of almost 2,000?m2.
It will supply the MAHLE plant with green electricity and overall, more than 430?kilowatt-peak (kWp) of electrical power and approximately 1.2?gigawatt-hours (GWh) of thermal energy generated annually are involved. This could cover the annual heating needs of about 100?single-family houses. The first hybrid modules of Sunmaxx will be installed from February 2025, and the plant is scheduled to go into operation in July 2025.
Unlike pure PV modules, PVT modules deliver electricity and heat simultaneously. They can serve as the sole heat source for heat pumps, but in combination with a heat storage show their greatest effect. For the sustainable heating supply of the MAHLE site near Stuttgart, a geothermal field has been selected as a heat storage facility to store the heat energy generated in summer by PVT for heating operation during the winter months. Thanks to the regeneration by the PVT modules, significantly fewer drill meters are required than for pure geothermal systems.
After the changeover, MAHLE will benefit from very competitive electricity and heat prices. With the PVT modules from Sunmaxx, the MAHLE site is almost completely detached from natural gas and makes its infrastructure largely independent of fossil fuels. “Due to PVT, the energy costs can be scaled and thus planned. Unlike gas, for example, no increase is to be expected in the next thirty years.
Rolls-Royce wins large-scale mtu battery storage order for wind farm in Turkey
Rolls-Royce has been awarded a contract by Polat Enerji, one of Turkey's leading investors in the renewable energy sector, to supply a large-scale battery energy storage system with a capacity of 132?MWh. The mtu QG EnergyPack will be integrated into the G?ktepe Wind Power Plant near Yalova in northwestern Turkey and will ensure that electricity from renewable sources can be fed into the grid without interruption.
The plant helps to increase the stability of the Turkish power grid and, thanks to the integration of renewable energies, to reduce CO2?emissions. When the wind is strong and the turbines in the wind farm generate more electricity than the grid can absorb, the surplus energy is stored in the battery systems. This prevents grid congestion at times when a lot of electricity is available. Later, the storage units also supply green electricity to the grid when there is no wind but energy is still needed. The mtu EnergetIQ intelligent control platform helps to ensure that the plant can be operated efficiently and thus profitably.
Eni's Plenitude doubles installed capacity in Spain thanks to organic growth
Plenitude has expanded its installed capacity from renewable sources in Spain by 400?MW, reaching nearly 950?MW of photovoltaic and wind power projects, more than double compared with 2023.
In particular, Plenitude has recently completed the installation of 150?MW of the Caparacena project in Granada, consisting of three photovoltaic plants nearly accounting for 50?MW capacity each. The electricity connection to the national transmission grid is ensured by a 400?kV substation, the construction of which has just been completed, and another 200?kV substation and line shared with other operators.
Moreover, Plenitude also completed the construction of other plants totalling nearly 250?MW in the solar parks of Renopool, in Extremadura, and Guillena, in Andalusia.Thanks also to these operations, the company has reached its target of 4GW of installed capacity globally in 2024.
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