Altran

Altran Technologies, SA (Euronext|ALT) is a European consulting firm founded in 1982 in France. Altran, self dubbed the European leader in high technology and innovation consultancy, operates primarily in technology and innovation consultancy, accounting for nearly half of its turnover. Administrative and information consultancy accounts for a third of its turnover with strategy and management consulting making up the rest. At the end of 2005, Altran claimed a workforce of 17,000 employees form its 150 subsidiaries and a turnover of 1.43 billion Euros, 53% originated from outside France. Altran employed 4,000 new staff in 2005.

Altran and the Environment

Altran is taking an ever increasing role in environmental issues. Responsible for the 39 St. Mary Axe building in London, Altran has started spreading into the realm of Ecological Design. At the Ecobuilding Conference in 2006 Altran presented various ecological concepts which were voted for by the audience for development and exhibition at the Altran Innovation Conference, 4 February, 2007. Designs included a window that cleaned air both outside and inside a building, motion sensitive lights that lit up and extinguished themselves as someone moved around a room and a communal waste disposal unit and square, featuring communal gardens with flowers and other such flora, powered by solar energy in the day to extract gases that could be stored for use either in powering the squares energy or, in the case of methane, preventing the harmful gas escaping into the atmosphere. The "Square" concept won and was presented at the Altran Innovation Conference in February 2007. The Altran Innovation Conference was a further step in ALtran's ecological struggles; talking with industry experts and officials from the European institutions and governments, Altran proposed solutions to some of the problems facing the world today, such as security of supply and supply sources, as well as introducing some of its innovations in the field of energy and transport, including a solar powered aeroplane and hydrogen powered fuel cells. Other ideas involved the centralisation of Europe's rail networks, satellites and technology to facilitate automobile transport across Europe, a tool capable of autonomously regulating diabetes and a hand-held radar capable of showing the locations of people the other side of relatively thick walls; facilitating the operations of security personnel while minimising risk.

candals

In September 2004 the President of Altran resigned amidst what the media have described as an accounting scandal [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19279647_ITM] .

External links

* [http://www.altran.com Official website]