FERROPERM PIEZOCERAMICS AS

Their core work

Ferroperm Piezoceramics AS manufactures piezoelectric ceramic materials and components — engineered ceramics that convert electrical signals into precise mechanical movement and vice versa. These materials are the functional core of sensors, actuators, and transducers used wherever high precision, reliability, and extreme environmental tolerance are required. In aviation, their piezoceramics enable smart airframe structures: components that actively sense structural stress, suppress vibration, or deliver controlled actuation under the thermal and mechanical loads of flight. Their participation in Clean Sky's AIRFRAME Integrated Technology Demonstrator confirms aerospace qualification of their materials, placing them in a narrow field of certified aerospace-grade functional ceramics suppliers in Europe.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

In their first H2020 project (GAM AIR 2018, 2014–2019), no keywords are recorded, which typically indicates a deep-tier supplier role focused on delivering certified materials within a larger program rather than driving research direction. By GAM-2020-AIR (2020–2024), their associated keywords include aircraft, rotor-craft, high performance and energy efficiency, high versatility and cost efficiency, and eco design — a richer vocabulary suggesting broader program integration and contribution to design-level trade-offs, not just materials supply. The trajectory is from specialist component supplier toward materials partner with a voice in performance and sustainability requirements.

They are expanding from airframe-only work into rotorcraft and integrating sustainability requirements, pointing toward a future role as a qualified provider of eco-designed functional ceramic components across aviation platforms.

How they like to work

Ferroperm has never served as project coordinator, always joining as a participant within large Clean Sky consortia. Their 94 unique partners across just 2 projects reflects the massive, multi-tier consortium structure of AIRFRAME ITD programs, where a single materials supplier interfaces with dozens of system integrators, Tier-1 aerospace companies, and research institutes simultaneously. This positions them as a reliable specialist node in aerospace supply chains — the kind of partner that large primes or system integrators pull in for validated materials performance, not one that assembles consortia independently.

Despite only two projects, their Clean Sky participation has connected them to 94 distinct partners across 14 countries — a network density that most organizations accumulate over many more projects. Their connections are concentrated in the European aerospace industrial ecosystem, linking them to major aerospace primes, research institutes, and system integrators across the continent.

What sets them apart

Ferroperm occupies a very narrow but strategically important niche: they are among the few European manufacturers of aerospace-qualified piezoceramic components with direct EU aviation program track record. Generic ceramics suppliers cannot offer the combination of material precision, aerospace certification exposure, and familiarity with Clean Sky program requirements that comes from a decade of AIRFRAME ITD participation. For any consortium requiring piezoelectric actuators, structural health monitoring transducers, or vibration-damping smart materials in aerospace or adjacent high-reliability applications, they represent a validated industrial partner rather than a research-stage supplier.

Highlights from their portfolio

• GAM AIR 2018
  Their largest funded project (€417,117), spanning five years at the heart of Clean Sky's AIRFRAME ITD program, establishing their aerospace materials credentials.
• GAM-2020-AIR
  Represents a programmatic continuation into Clean Sky 2 with an explicit eco-design mandate, signaling qualification for next-generation sustainable aviation materials work.