On December 13, the Board of Directors of EMC2, the European manufacturing technology cluster, elected François Paynot, Director of the Airbus Nantes plant, as its new President until the end of the current term on April 19, 2021.
François Paynot, 45, has been Director of Airbus Nantes since May 2018. Prior to this, he spent four and a half years managing the Saint-Nazaire plant of Stelia Aerospace, a subsidiary of the Airbus group. An engineer from ICAM in Nantes, François Paynot spent a large part of his career in the automotive sector, and more specifically within the PSA Group.
"Deeply attached to the region by my personal roots, I fully believe in the values of collaboration and collective intelligence. It was with this in mind that I decided to take on the presidency of the EMC2 cluster, and I'm looking forward to working with the cluster's team to build on what has already been initiated as part of the SPIRIT 2025 project. The EMC2 Cluster, a true place of inspiration, a catalyst for collaborative innovation projects and endowed with key expertise, is the first gateway to be pushed by all industry players in the Loire and Brittany to take into account all the new trends arriving on our markets".says François Paynot.
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