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Utac (Union Technique de l’Automobile du motocycle et du Cycle) is a private French group founded in 1945, which operates in the fields of land mobility: light vehicles, heavy goods vehicles, agricultural vehicles, military vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles. Utac is a member of the French AFNOR group of standardization bodies.
UTAC owns Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry and the Mortefontaine circuit. The organization has created an event unit called Event et Formation which manages events on its sites, during the week and at weekends.
The services marketed by UTAC are mainly aimed at car manufacturers and equipment manufacturers.
UTAC carries out fine-tuning, development and validation tests in its laboratories. They concern electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), acoustics, engine emissions/pollution, fatigue and endurance, passive and active safety of vehicles, ground connection. In 2017, UTAC and the public works company Colas signed a partnership in the context of autonomous vehicles and smart roads..[1]
UTAC is charged by the French authorities with carrying out all the tests aimed at establishing the compliance of vehicles and their equipment with the directives issued by the European Commission. The company is one of the official laboratories of the independent European body Euro NCAP. Utac also carries out tests at the request of the United Nations[2]. In 2021, the group employs 1,280 people in France, United Kingdom, Finland, Morocco, United States, China, Russia and Japan. It operates test centers at Millbrook (Bedfordshire) and Leyland (Lancashire) in the UK and at Ivalo in Finland[3]. In 2021, a test center should open in Oued Zem in Morocco.
The company is a partner of the French public authorities and is present in several working groups in the Geneva and Brussels authorities in order to participate in the development of global and European regulatory changes[4]
The group has been majority-owned since the end of 2020 by the investment company Eurazeo, with the private equity fund FCDE and the Committee of French Automobile Manufacturers[5].
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- ↑ Jean-Yves Kerbrat (2017). "Utac Ceram et Colas associent véhicules autonomes et routes intelligentes". www.transportissimo.com (in français). Retrieved 2018-09-09..
- ↑ Julie Thoin-Bousquié (27 June 2017). "Utac-Ceram, l'organisme en charge de l'homologation des voitures pourrait être vendu" (in français). L'Usine nouvelle..
- ↑ [https://www.vehicledynamicsinternational.com/news/industry-news/utac-ceram-and-millbrook-join-forces.html vehicledynamicsinternational.com January 2021, UTAC CERAM and Millbrook join forces, retrieved at 7 March 2022.
- ↑ "Automobile : le CCFA va céder UTAC-Ceram" (in français). Le Figaro. 2017-12-12..
- ↑ "Automobile : Le groupe d'essai UTAC à l'affût d'acquisitions en Allemagne". Challenges (in français). 2001-09-08. Retrieved 2021-09-29..
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