French aerospace firm explores new areas in India

Paris: Sofema, a French aerospace company, is looking at the Indian market with renewed interest to not only supply sophisticated equipment and hardware, but also establish joint ventures with Indian entities. The company is particularly keen to ffer its wares in areas like homeland security, railway signalling and joint development of frontline technologies, Sofema officials said.
'Among our other plans, we're keen to partner with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) to jointly develop equipment like electronic equipment, complete oxygen solutions, cockpit systems and avionics,' said Jacques Reboul, chief operating officer of the company.
'We believe the Indian government wants to purchase some 180 such helicopters,' Reboul told a media delegation from India on a visit to the facilities of some members of GIFAS, the French aerospace association.
26/04/06 Arvind Padmanabhan/Indo-Asian News Service/DailyIndia.com

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