Projects and Collaborations

Flagship projects

• ANR Sulfocim
  The Sulfocim project, supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR), focuses on formulating low-CO₂-emission cements based on sulfoaluminate cements. It brings together two industrial partners—the cement manufacturer VICAT and the admixture manufacturer MAPEI—as well as two academic partners: the Georges Friedel Laboratory at École des Mines de Saint-Étienne and the Materials and Civil Engineering Laboratory at IMT Mines Alès.
• HYGEN
  The HYGEN research and development programme aims to enable a significant scale-up of the equipment required for the use of liquid hydrogen, in support of decarbonised mobility. This project, supported by ADEME, is led by three leading experts: Fives, a global industrial engineering group and lead partner of the consortium, and two major research players, CEA and École des Mines de Saint-Étienne.
• PEPR Subsurface – InnovTech Project
  As part of the PEPR Subsurface programme, the InnovTech project aims to bring together the French scientific community working on mineral processing, in order to address the scientific challenges related to the sustainable exploitation of mineral resources. Planned over six years, this project brings together seven partners: BRGM, the University of Lorraine, CNRS, Toulouse INP, Mines ParisTech – PSL, the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, and CEA.

Academic Partnerships

• IMT Mines Albi
  A jointly supervised PhD on DEM–Markov chain coupling for mixer monitoring is underway with the Raspodee centre.

Industrial Partnerships

• Orano
  École des Mines de Saint-Étienne and Orano signed an agreement in 2023 to launch a joint laboratory. This laboratory will help strengthen Orano’s position—an international-scale player, notably in the field of nuclear fuel—and will provide researchers with applied testbeds for their experiments and models.
• Expertise Vision
  A CIFRE PhD is underway at Expertise Vision, focusing on image analysis and stochastic geometry, with the aim of automating bin-picking of parts with variable geometry.