Safran SA announced that it will open a research and technology, or R&T, center in Paris. Scheduled to open by the end of 2014, it will consolidate Safran's corporate R&T and innovation teams, and focus on the development of new technologies for use by all of Safran's business sectors. The new center, dubbed Paris-Saclay, is located south of Paris and will enable increased synergies with Saclay, the leading science and technology cluster in France.

Safran's new Paris-Saclay facility will eventually count some 1,500 employees, including 300 scientists and technologists, along with engineers and technicians from other Safran entities currently located in the greater Paris area. The center is also designed to eventually welcome outside research teams working on subjects that complement Safran's areas of industrial research, to form a top-tier research complex. Through this new R&T center, Safran will be able to accelerate technological breakthroughs in aerospace, digital technology, materials, processes and sensors.