Press release GICAN: Sydney, 6th October 2017 A positive assessment for French businesses at PACIFIC 2017 The PACIFIC exhibition closed its doors on Thursday, October 5th after three intensive business days. The 22 French companies gathered in the French Pavilion and coordinated by GICAN (the French Marine Industry Association) draw up a positive statement of their participation at PACIFIC. All of them had a chance to meet and discuss with the delegations of the (RAN) and many other Navies of the Pacific region. Driven by the dynamic of ‘Future Programme’ and along track of NAVAL GROUP, French SMEs worked together and connected with Australian companies. Together they are meeting the challenge of renewing the RAN’s and . Here are a few achievements made this week: GROUPE FIVA announced the opening of a subsidiary in Adelaide named FIVA Australia; ISSARTEL strengthened its industrial French- Australian partnership with H.I Fraser; LACROIX announced its acquisition of Wallop Defence Systems Limited (Esterline Group) naval business assets; PREDICT, specialised in predictive maintenance, signed a partnership agreement with PHM Technology; through ENGIE AXIMA opened exclusive negotiations to buy German-based group, Noske-Kaeser including its subsidiary in Australia. All others had the opportunity to move forward Australianization. The French-Australian Seminar, hold on this occasion, confirmed French businesses’s commitment, supported by GICAN and encouraged by the French Embassy in Australia, , DGA (French Procurement Defence Agency), and NAVAL GROUP. Save the date for our upcoming event, EURONAVAL (23-26 October 2018, Le Bourget), to continue the French-Australian business cooperation.

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The GICAN*, coordinating the French naval industry

*Groupement des Industries de Construction et Activités Navales (French Marine Industry Association)

The GICAN is a professional French trade association affiliating more than 180 industrialists in the naval and maritime sector. It brings together major contractors, system and equipment providers, as well as SMEs and MMCs that contribute to the design, construction, maintenance and implementation of military vessels, medium and large tonnage trade vessels and specialised vessels. It also plays an important role in the emergence of Marine Renewable Energies.

The GICAN’s ambition is to promote the development of the French maritime industry, within the context of global economic “maritimisation”. This will allow the GICAN to play a leading role in promoting, securing and protecting maritime, air-sea, submarine and coastal areas.

Euronaval: 23rd > 26rd October 2018 / Paris Le Bourget, – www.euronaval.fr

The GICAN organises the Euronaval exhibition, world leader in exhibitions for the naval defence industry and maritime safety-security. Every two years, at the gateway to Paris, Euronaval brings together the world’s largest panel of industrialists, material distributors, systems and services associated with naval technology. In 2016, representatives of 64 of the one hundred countries possessing a navy accepted the French government’s invitation to Euronaval. No other international event exists that is entirely devoted to the naval defence market. The next edition of Euronaval will be headed by Hervé GUILLOU, CEO of NAVAL GROUP and President of the GICAN, responsible for organising the exhibition for the last 50 years.

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