Many Thales Cryogenics inventions have had a significant impact on Cryogenic development.

Facts

• Each year the company devotes 12% of its turnover to Research & Development.
• Entities in France and The Netherlands employ more than 40 engineers from a total of 120 employees.
• 75 research findings published in international scientific journals.
• Thales Cryogenics has registered up to 20 patents in 15 years.

Technical Challenges

• The improvement of cooler reliability, especialy under severe environmental conditions in order to offer the lowest overall cost of use and increase system availability.
• The reduction of energy consumption associated with higher thermal efficiency.
• The reduction of noise during the life span of the cooler.
• Find and qualify new technologies, materials and assembling processes, allowing the achievement of the best cost effective ratio within a worldwide competition.