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Exens Solutions

Backed by an industrial heritage of more than 50 years, Exens Solutions, formerly Cobham Microwave, is a French company specialized in design and manufacturing of electronic and microwave components, modules and subsystems. With an international reach, Exens Solutions addresses space, defense, medical and telecommunications markets.

We offer solutions for all types of applications integrating diodes in dies or in packages, semiconductor-based modules, circulators, isolators, couplers and dividers, limiters, filters, switches, etc. We also design and manufacture complete subsystems of active and passive functions.
Our industrial tool allows us to meet custom requirements and to adapt our production accordingly. Attentive to our customers, we develop an innovative knowledge to meet highly challenging technical needs.

About us

Missions

  • We contribute to the technological progress on earth and in space by improving quality, reliability and performance of electromagnetic signals.
  • We collaborate with major international players in the fields of space, defense, medical and telecommunications.
  • We participate in the new challenges of the future by imagining more integrated, performant and competitive solutions.

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Our industrial heritage

An industrial heritage of more than 50 years.

Notre histoire

Exens Solutions is the result of an evolution linked to various acquisitions and disposals, which originated back to the company Thomson CSF.

Installed in 1947 in Corbeville in the south of Paris, this site regrouped various research laboratories developing Traveling Wave Tubes (TWT) and Klystrons.

Subsequently, other activities emerged such as Silicium (Si) and Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors, ferrite-based components (isolators, circulators), and microelectronic modules (amplifiers, voltage-controlled oscillators, etc.).

After growing, some activities left Corbeville to become autonomous.

Thus, Thomson CM division (Thomson Microwave Components) was created in the early 1980s, bringing together microelectronic modules, ferrite components and silicon diodes (Massy and Montreuil sites).

Afterwards, the company changed names several times: Tekelec, Temex, Chelton Telecom & Microwave, Cobham Microwave and lately Exens Solutions.

1998

Thomson CM division is sold to Tekelec group

2004

Temex Microwave branch is sold to Cobham group

2019

Cobham Group is acquired by Advent International fund (US)

2022

Cobham Microwave is sold by Advent to the FCDE French fund

2023

Cobham Microwave left Cobham group and became Exens Solutions

Our values

At the heart of our company’s identity and culture are the values shared by all employees: Agility – Competence – Innovation – Reliability.

Agility

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To answer faster to market demands, Exens Solutions offers great flexibility by adapting its industrial tool, from prototype designing to industrialization and manufacturing of large production series.

Competence

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The performance and longevity of our company are based on the know-how and high level of skills of our staff. In-house training and continuous education are the pillars of our attractiveness and sustainability.

Innovation

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Innovation is the key challenge that give us passion and enable us to create without limits. To stay at the forefront of fast-moving industries, our people design unique solutions to provide more added values and competitiveness. Our customers have trusted us for decades.

Reliability

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Reliability is the key marker of our products at all stages. Most demanding verification and control standards apply to design, prototyping, procurement and production. With an heritage of more than 50 years, Exens Solutions is renowned for its products reliability and durability.

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Collaborateurs en France

1000

Clients dans le monde

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Nouveaux développements

Implantations

Les Ulis

3 Avenue du Pacifique
91940 Les Ulis
01 69 59 98 00

Gradignan

55 Allée de Mégévie
33170 Gradignan
01 69 59 98 00

Engagement qualité & RSE

Exens Solutions has based its economic and social policy on two pillars:

Its human capital

The company implements a strong policy focusing on training, quality of life at work and social responsibility.

Continuous improvement

The firm constantly upgrades its design and production tools to ensure a state-of-the-art performance and quality.

Exens Solutions is certified:

  • ISO 9001, 2015: for the design, production, marketing and distribution of components, microwave and microwave power test systems
  • ISO 14001, 2015: for the design, production, marketing and distribution of microwave components and systems and microwave power test

 

Exens Solutions has received :

  • a production organisation approval certificat FR.21G.0309 issued by OSAC.
  • an ESA No. 225K Certificate of Qualification for the supply of RF PIN diodes, & frequency multipliers according to the CCHS.
  • an ESA Certificate of Qualification No. 286G for the supply of microwave PIN chips & MOS capacitor chips according to the ESCC.
  • a CSR Charter issued by the Union of Metallurgical Industries and Trades (U.I.M.M.).