About Parker Meggitt Avrillé (Artus)

Artus founded in 1948 by Artur Schiffermuller for the manufacture of specialised high performance electrical motors. Used in the aerospace and medical industries.
The head office was in Paris with the workshops in the suburbs employing ten people.
Became a limited company in 1950.

The company expanded and moved the motor workshops to Avrillé (West of France). This subsidiary was called Sutra.

The other Artus subsidiary, called Rusta, continued to have a mechanics department in the suburbs of Paris.

ARTUS became a subsidiary of the American group, Kollmorgen Corporation. The principal products were motors and drives, electro-optics and instrumentation. (1970)

All activities moved to Avrillé. (1971)

Artus acquired Cryla in Besancon (France) — specialists in micromechanical solutions for the medical industry. (1978)

Created a specific R&D department. This was in response to the demand for complex aeronautical equipment. (1980)

Acquired the electro-mechanical components division of Thomson.
Sensors and resolvers are added to the product range. (1988)

Name changed to Kollmorgen ARTUS. (1993)

Achieved ISO9001 certification. (1996)

New manufacturing facility set up in Vietnam. (1997) Now, this is the low cost manufacturing centre for Meggitt Sensing Systems.

Taken over by the Danaher Group. Artus SAS became part of the Pacific Scientific Safety and Aviation Group. (2000)

Acquired the LVDT sensors business from Snecma Propulsion Solide. (2002)

Acquired Aéronautique Systèmes BIP — this reinforces the leadership position in electrical power conversion. (2003)

Acquired TFE — power conversion, motor drives and harmonic filters are added to the product range. (2005)

TFE merged with BIP to create TFE Electronics. (2006)

Expanded the Meggitt Vietnam manufacturing facility to 7900 m2. (2009)

Artus and TFE Electronics acquired by Meggitt. (2011)

Became part of the Meggitt Sensing Systems division. (2014)

Started their journey on the Meggitt Production System — a group-wide business system based on Lean methodology. (2013)

New building project for Meggitt Avrille employees