The Test and Product Approval Centre (Centre d’Essai et d’Agrément Produit – CESAP) centralizes the experimental tools essential to the development of products which satisfy customers requirements in the fields of:

  • metallurgy
  • fatigue behaviour
  • measurement
  • corrosion protection

Located in Douai, in the north of France, and unique in the group, the CESAP:

  • carries out approval tests once realized by car makers
  • realize specific test programmes according to the customers' stated specifications
  • carries out tests on multi-axial test bench to measure the dynamic response of the whole axle
  • supports the customers during the life time of the products