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About ACOME
ACOME is a French industrial group specializing in technical cables and components for data/telecommunication networks and the automotive industry. Celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2022, ACOME operates globally with a strong presence in China, Brazil, and EMEA, including France.
Editorial by Jacques de Heere
CEO Jacques de Heere discusses ACOME's resilience and strategic plan, ACOME 2025, which aims to navigate market transitions and maintain growth despite challenges like semiconductor shortages and rising energy costs. The company is committed to innovation and investment, with a €100 million investment plan for 2021-2025.
Strategy
ACOME focuses on sustainable innovation and performance, investing significantly in R&D and modernizing industrial systems. The company aims to expand in European markets, particularly in the UK and Germany, and enhance its product offerings in smart buildings and electromobility.
Responsible Governance
Operating as a SCOP (cooperative and participatory company), ACOME emphasizes employee involvement in decision-making and profit-sharing, supporting long-term strategic goals and financial stability.
Global Presence
ACOME has a significant international footprint with factories and sales offices in seven countries, focusing on expanding its market share in Europe and supporting digital and energy transitions.
Environmental and Energy Transition
ACOME is committed to reducing its carbon footprint by 2050, with interim goals for 2030. The company enhances its product environmental profiles and life cycle analyses to support customers' carbon neutrality efforts.
Key Figures
In 2021, ACOME achieved a turnover of €552 million, with 52% from international markets. The company plans to invest €100 million between 2021 and 2025 to support its strategic initiatives.
Digitisation and Industrial Management
ACOME is upgrading to the SAP4Hana platform by the second quarter of 2022 to enhance customer relations and streamline information exchanges, particularly in logistics and order management.
Security and Environmental Initiatives
ACOME collaborates with local associations to improve security at its Romagny site and implements an environmental plan to recreate natural areas and reduce energy consumption through thermal renovations.
Governance Structure
ACOME operates as a cooperative and participatory company, with directors elected for four-year terms. The Board of Directors is responsible for strategic directions, investment plans, and internal auditing.
Global Presence and Market Focus
ACOME has industrial sites in France, China, Morocco, and Brazil, focusing on six markets: automotive industry, smart buildings, smart city, railway industry, telecommunication networks, and electrical transformer stations.
Automotive Industry Challenges and Opportunities
The automotive sector faces challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic and semiconductor shortages. ACOME is capitalizing on the shift towards electromobility and in-car connectivity, focusing on developing power cables and data cables.
Innovation and Product Development
ACOME invests in R&D to develop new technologies, such as UltraFlex HV power cables, to reduce charging times for electric vehicles and coaxial cables for automotive applications.
Telecom Networks and Infrastructures
ACOME is expanding its presence in European markets, focusing on optical telecom networks, copper telecom networks, and mobile telecom networks.
Market Trends
France leads in FttH deployment, with significant growth in optical fiber subscriptions. The EU's anti-dumping regulation on optical fiber imports benefits the French and German markets.
Opportunities for ACOME
ACOME adapts its strategy to focus on new geographic markets like Germany and the UK, focusing on the 5th generation of mobile networks and connected regions.
Supporting Carbon Transition
ACOME is committed to reducing carbon footprints through eco-designed products and innovative services.
Innovation in Optical Cables
The UNB1627 Drop cable and UND1537 overhead cable have improved carbon footprints and performance, supporting the deployment of public initiative networks.
UK Market and Datacenter Deployment
ACOME is expanding in the UK market with its ULW range and patented technology for thinner cables.
Germany's Digital Strategy
Germany's "Digital 2025" strategy aims for a 1Gb rate optical fiber network. ACOME is developing products compatible with German market specifications.
Building, City, and Transport
ACOME is active in smart buildings, smart cities, railways, and electricity transmission, focusing on Power Over Ethernet technology and 5G private networks.
Opportunities in Transport
Projects like Grand Paris and the upcoming Olympic Games create opportunities for ACOME in the transport sector.
5G Platform Development
ACOME, in partnership with ALSATIS, is developing a 5G platform in Normandy, supported by a €1 million grant.
Specifications and Achievements
ACOME has partnered with Thalès to supply command-control cables for the Grand Paris project, emphasizing stringent fire performance requirements.
Innovations
The introduction of Fireprotect CLT cables marks a significant advancement in eco-friendly and easy-to-install data transmission cables.
Governance and Cooperative Model
ACOME operates as a SCOP, ensuring job security and promoting cooperative values.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
ACOME's CSR strategy focuses on ensuring the company's future, supporting industrial employment in France, and committing to ecological transition.
Human Resources and Development
ACOME prioritizes skills development and employee well-being, investing heavily in training and safety culture programs.
Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction
ACOME maintains high standards of quality management, focusing on customer satisfaction and achieving significant improvements in complaint rates and product returns.
Certifications and Accreditations
ACOME holds several certifications, including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001, and is accredited by Cofrac for fire testing.
Future Outlook
ACOME continues to innovate and expand its global presence, with a strategic plan emphasizing environmental sustainability and cooperative values.
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Editorial by Jacques de Heere Responsible governance Global presence on 4 continents Rising to the challenges of electromobility and ultra-connectivity CONNECTION MAKERS TELECOM NETWORKS AND INFRASTRUCTURES Accelerating our deployment in European markets BUILDING, CITY AND TRANSPORT Supporting the digital and energy transition in the buildings and transport sectors Extra-financial performance ACOME, COnnection Makers for 90 years

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Values Commitment Excellence Respect Solidarity The SCOP status (cooperative and participatory company) of the parent company imparts its cooperative values to the Group as a whole. These are the foundations of our joint, shared vision. Corporate purpose As a responsible industrial player of reference, our mission is to propose sustainable solutions for network development. We strive to ensure the company’s durability by supporting fundamental cooperative values.

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ACOME is a French industrial group, specialising in highly technical cables and components for data / telecommunication networks and the automotive industry. The Group, which will be celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2022, is present on four continents. employees (average pro rata headcount on 31 December 2021) Male: 77% Female: 23% Investment planned between 2021 and 2025, €12.2M of which was made in 2021 Group EBITDA factories and sales offices in 7 countries GLOBAL PRESENCE (average pro rata headcount on 31/12/2021) EMEA including France 73%

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“The Group’s activity has returned to its 2019 level (before the health crisis).” BREAKDOWN OF TURNOVER IN FRANCE AND ABROAD To be an innovative international group and a reference in networks for the automotive, telecommunication and building industries. BREAKDOWN OF TURNOVER CONSOLIDATED FOR EACH ACTIVITY €552M turnover including 52% international +30 % vs 2020 Railway and telecommunication networks and infrastructures Communication networks in buildings

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With its jointly-developed strategic plan, ACOME 2025, launched in 2021, the Group is preparing for the multiple transitions in progress on its markets and leveraging the resilience demonstrated throughout its 90 years of operations. A technological flagship of the French cable industry has developed over the course of these 90 years What is your vision for 2022, given the current geopolitical context that will inevitably affect economic activities in Europe? J.d.H. : Raw material shortages and rising energy costs are already clearly visible, in addition to a geopolitical situation whose consequences...

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several years already and we do not depend upon external shareholders. That is what it means to be a SCOP, and that is perhaps what makes us more confident in the future. During our 90-year history, we have come through many other periods of uncertainty. We come from Normandy. We know how to navigate through storms. So, investing is second nature for ACOME? J.d.H. : I know of no industries that remain successful without structured investment programmes. To protect French industry, constant innovation is essential, and we must fight to win new contracts and to maintain efficient industrial tools....

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3 questions for Jean-Yves Goblot, Director of Strategy, Programs and Projects, on the first year of implementation of the ACOME 2025 strategic plan. ACOME 2025, a plan for sustainable innovation and performance What were the main actions carried out in 2021? Jean-Yves GOBLOT: ACOME has a long-term vision and our strategic plan for 2025 was drawn up with a form of continuity. A strategic plan does not mean a break. Some projects started during the previous plan, such as the transformation of our industrial information system, which is being continued under this plan. Innovation has deep roots...

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ACOME is structuring its roadmap to reduce the carbon footprint of its activities by 2050 by adopting an overall vision of its own emissions (industrial and service activities) and those of its products – and therefore of its customers too. In 2021, data consolidation enabled detailed analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions at the scale of the Group for Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3, starting with the items with the biggest impact: raw material purchases and business travel. To demonstrate how its cables contribute to the carbon neutrality efforts of its customers, ACOME is improving its product...

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The “multi-factory” site in Romagny, industrial 5G laboratory rojects to revise the information and industrial management system lie at the heart of our activities and their industrial and commercial coordination. Objective: to continue to digitise our industrial IS, which is upgrading to the SAP4Hana platform. Migration is scheduled for the second quarter of 2022, according to the project time-line. This new environment will enable the creation of innovative services and bolster customer relations. For example, it will facilitate the interface with customer information systems and improve information...

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Responsible governance Jean-Michel ABRAHAM, ACOME is France’s leading cooperative and participatory company (SCOP). Its directors are all partner-employees, elected for four-year terms. This cooperative governance guarantees the company’s long-term strategy. Manufacturing Line Manager telecoms networks and infrastructures Frédéric BRIAND, General manager of ACOME Wuhan and Director of the Asia Pacific region Anne-Sophie DECOURRIÈRE, Director of the Building, City and Transport Business Unit Christian EMOND, Logistics Technician, Automotive Industry A COMMITTED BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Board of...

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Global presence on 4 continents One industrial site in France (Romagny, Manche), industrial and commercial development in 7 countries in EMEA, China and Brazil, to be as close as possible to its key customers. Head office ~60 employees. MORTAIN/ ROMAGNY (1941, MANCHE) 6 factories on a 43 hectare site, employing around one thousand employees. The industrial home of the Group, one of the largest integrated industrial sites in Europe in the cabling industry. LANNION (2015, CÔTES-D’ARMOR) Industrial site of Idea Optical, French specialist in the design and manufacture of optical connectors and switching...

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