- With the stopping of air traffic due to coronavirus, the aeronautical sector is hit hard.
- While Airbus has announced the abolition of more than 3,500 jobs in Toulouse, subcontractors will also be weighed down by the crisis.
- Two Toulouse subcontracting companies have decided to innovate by creating a distributor of hydroalcoholic gel.
"In February we were the kings of the world, in April we only had our eyes to cry". Like many aeronautical subcontractors, Pascal Burdillat was not spared from the coronavirus crisis.
At the head of AJK Technologies, an engineering design office in the Toulouse conurbation which works 90% for aeronautics and in particular Airbus, he decided to bounce back. And it was by talking with Thierry Nadalin, the boss of Tiso, a company specializing in fine sheet metal work and precision mechanics, that they had the idea of rebounding.
And it was the news of Covid-19, of which they were victims, that inspired them. “There is no point in limiting yourself, you had to bounce back. We came up with the idea of creating a hydroalcoholic gel distribution terminal. At AJK we worked on the electronic part, Tiso on the manufacturing aspect, ”explains the business manager.
"Get moving and come up with ideas"
And for the past two weeks, "Speed gel" has been ready. A 100% made in Occitanie terminal which allows 8,000 doses of gel to be dispensed in a secure, contactless and automated manner. Now remains to market this device sold at 600 euros that the creators would like to see installed in busy and symbolic places of the region.
"Unlike masks, this system will continue and become part of everyday life," hopes Pascal Burdillat, who sees this as a way to diversify, willy-nilly. “If we had time to retrain it would have been good, but we don't have any. We have to move and find ideas, if we wait we will die. Companies will relocate, we will have to make robots, find solutions, in the medium term there will be a job, "continues the business manager who has retained all of his staff despite the loss of activities.
Through this retraining, he also sees another advantage, that of motivating his teams who only hear about slump all day long. "As soon as you arouse the interest of people, that the employees see that we are moving, psychologically it is important," says the business manager.
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