Fregate Aero

FREGATE AERO designs, industrialises and manufactures thin metal structure and sheet metal subassemblies for civil and military aeronautics, including aircraft fuselage parts, onboard electronic housings and tubular assemblies. Work covers design and calculation, machining, laser cutting, sheet metal and pipe bending, robotic TIG welding, chemical processing and coating, using aluminium, titanium and special steel alloys.

The company works directly with aerospace customers from materials and process selection through prototyping, testing and series production, and supplies spares for products already in use. Its catalogue lists over 14,000 references, with production batches from 1 to 1,000 pieces. It is a subsidiary of the FREGATE group and is certified EN9100, ISO 9001 and Part21G.

The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in La Voulte-sur-Rhône, where finishing and subassembly take place and the subsidiary FREGATE MECA handles machining. A second site in Beauchastel, about 3 km away, makes sheet metal parts, and the two sites total 12,000 m² of covered area. The website states that the company has over 200 employees.

Product: Manufactured metal structure and sheet metal subassemblies for civil and military aircraft, including machining, welding, surface treatment and spare parts.