EREMS announced on 5 June the inauguration of its revamped Flourens facility in southwestern France following a three-year, €10 million expansion.
Founded in 1979, EREMS specialises in the design and manufacture of electronic equipment used primarily for space applications. Most recently, the company has supplied key elements for Airbus Defence and Space’s CO3D and Pléiades Neo constellations, the French Armed Forces’ CERES constellation, and ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter.
In November 2022, the expansion of EREMS’ facility in Flourens was selected as one of 18 winners of the French government’s initial “First Factory” call. Managed under the France 2030 programme, the €2.3 billion initiative was launched to support the expansion of the country’s industrial production capacity. When EREMS announced the project in February 2023, it described it as a “new building for 2024”, suggesting that the company originally expected the expansion to come online the following year. This early 2023 announcement also outlined an original budget of €7 million.
On 5 June 2026, the company announced that it had officially completed its expansion. The project included the addition of a new 2,000-square-metre building containing offices, meeting rooms, and a large testing area. The original building was also revamped and now includes 250 square metres of additional cleanroom space, 150 square metres of which is dedicated to its new automated production line. The expanded EREMS campus now covers 4,000 square metres of industrial floor space, including 450 square metres of cleanrooms.
The total budget was increased to more than €10 million from an initial €7 million, although the company did not comment on the reason for the adjustment. It did, however, state that €6.7 million had been allocated to infrastructure and approximately €3.5 million to the acquisition of its automated electronic board assembly line. EREMS also revealed that, in addition to support from the France 2030 programme, the project was financed by the company itself with backing from Banque Populaire Occitane, a regional lender.
In its original 2023 announcement, the company said photovoltaic shades would be installed over its car park, allowing the building to be “almost self-sufficient from an energy point of view.” However, in its June 2026 press release announcing the inauguration of the expanded facility, EREMS stated only that the photovoltaic shades would enable partial energy self-consumption.
The expansion of EREMS’ production capacity reflects broader momentum across Europe, where demand from commercial constellations and defence programmes alike is driving suppliers to scale up manufacturing. In October 2025, OHB acquired a facility in Schöneck to increase its electronic component production, while EnduroSat secured $104 million to ramp up output at its new 17,500-square-metre satellite factory in Sofia. Also in October, Thales Alenia Space inaugurated its €100 million “Smart Factory” in Rome.
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