JEUMONT ELECTRIC SAS

Their core work

Jeumont Electric is a French industrial manufacturer specializing in large electrical machines — generators, motors, and drive systems — for demanding sectors including offshore wind energy and naval propulsion. In the H2020 programme, they contributed as an industrial partner in two distinct technology bets: demonstrating the world's first full-scale superconducting wind turbine generator, and advancing laser-based manufacturing processes for high-performance electrical steels used in motor cores. Their value in research consortia is the ability to bridge laboratory-scale innovations with real industrial manufacturing constraints and series-production know-how. They are not a research institute — they are the partner who can tell you whether a materials or machine concept will actually work at industrial scale.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Jeumont Electric's earliest H2020 engagement (EcoSwing, 2015) was at the system level — a complete superconducting generator demonstrator for offshore wind, with no material-science keywords recorded. Their second project (ESSIAL, starting 2017) shifted the focus inward to the material and manufacturing level: laser surface structuring, magnetic domain control, and lamination assembly. This is a progression from machine-system integration toward the foundational manufacturing processes that determine machine efficiency. The trajectory suggests they are investing in tighter control over the quality of key input materials (electrical steels) that feed their generator and motor production lines.

Jeumont Electric appears to be moving toward mastering advanced material processing (laser-structured magnetic steels) that could improve efficiency across their entire product range, suggesting future collaboration interest in electric motor efficiency, loss reduction, and next-generation generator materials.

How they like to work

Jeumont Electric has participated exclusively as a consortium partner across both H2020 projects — never as coordinator — indicating they prefer to contribute their industrial expertise within consortia led by research institutions or technology developers. With 22 unique partners across 7 countries spread over just 2 projects, they operate in medium-to-large consortia rather than bilateral arrangements. This profile is consistent with a large industrial company that selectively joins projects where a manufacturing or system-integration perspective is needed, rather than driving the research agenda itself.

Jeumont Electric has collaborated with 22 distinct organizations across 7 countries through just two projects, suggesting they joined well-connected European consortia rather than building a narrow bilateral network. Their geographic spread is pan-European, consistent with the international composition typical of IA and RIA consortia in the energy and manufacturing pillars.

What sets them apart

Jeumont Electric occupies a rare position as a French industrial-scale electrical machine manufacturer with demonstrated R&D engagement in both superconducting technology and advanced magnetic materials — two areas that most electrical machine companies treat separately. Unlike university partners or pure R&D firms in the same consortia, they bring series-production constraints and real deployment experience, making them the partner who validates whether a technology is manufacturable. For a consortium targeting generators, motors, or power conversion hardware, they offer both credibility with industrial end-users and the practical knowledge to de-risk scale-up.

Highlights from their portfolio

• EcoSwing
  Largest funded project (EUR 999,708) and a milestone demonstration — the world's first full-scale superconducting wind generator installed in an operating turbine, placing Jeumont Electric at the frontier of next-generation offshore wind technology.
• ESSIAL
  Represents a strategic pivot toward materials-level manufacturing innovation — laser structuring of electrical steels is a commercially significant process that could reduce iron losses across Jeumont Electric's entire motor and generator product range.