Pierre Claudel has been appointed Managing Director of Cetiat - Centre technique des industries aérauliques et thermiques - effective April 1, succeeding Bernard Brandon who has held the position since 2009.
Pierre Claudel joined Cetiat in 1990, after studying engineering at the École Centrale de Marseille, and recently completing an MBA in General Management at IFG/IAE Sorbonne. He has enjoyed a rich and varied career.
For 10 years, Pierre Claudel supported heating professionals through studies to improve thermal performance and reduce pollutant emissions, product certification testing and training. In 2000, he was appointed Director of the Metrology Division, in charge of sensor calibration, studies and training in measurement, notably of energy quantities. He worked to have three calibration laboratories (in hygrometry, anemometry and liquid flowmetering) recognized as reference laboratories for the French National Metrology Network. In 2014, he took charge of the Testing, Calibration and Certification Department to structure Cetiat's activities based on the application of recognized standards or reference frameworks.
In parallel with his responsibilities at Cetiat, he was involved in the creation in 2002 of the Collège Français de Métrologie (CFM), an association for the dissemination of best practices in industrial measurement, which he chaired between June 2010 and May 2014. He remains an active member as vice-president treasurer.
Pierre Claudel is a qualified member of the Metrology Committee and an elected member of the Cofrac Laboratory Section Committee. He is also a member of the CTI network's Quality, Standardization and Performance Evaluation Commission. Finally, he is a director of Réseau Mesure, an association of SMEs in the instrumentation sector.
Ecological transition, decarbonization of industry, indoor air quality: these are the major challenges to which Cetiat is committed alongside the professions. Pierre Claudel wishes to pursue and amplify the actions initiated within the framework of the 2020-2023 Contract of Objectives and Performance (COP), in which Cetiat clearly displays its ambitions, such as the development of ventilation and heating equipment with reduced carbon impact in response to the ecological and energy transition, the preservation of well-being and health in indoor spaces, and the support of manufacturers in their energy transition within the strategy led around the Industry of the Future.
"This new responsibility is part of a continuity that makes sense, and it's a fairly serene handover. I first came to Cetiat over 30 years ago, and have spent my career here in a variety of positions and departments. Our priority will be to provide an appropriate response to the very high expectations of the profession and our customers, in an environment undergoing radical transformation in the face of various crises: climatic, health and, most recently, the war in Ukraine. "says Pierre Claudel.
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