Welcome to Gixel website
GIXEL is the French association for electronic components
systems, smart card industries. Download our report 2011
60 members offering innovative solution to OEMs "from chips to system".
GIXEL areas : connectors, PCBs, packaging and interconnection, MCMs, smart cards, keyboards, switches, capacitors, resistors, magnetic components, piezo electric devices, SSI, smart sensors...
GIXEL represents a various panel of companies from SMEs, branch companies to global companies.
Electronic components address all sectors of industry. Traditionnal; telecommunications, automotive, space and defence, industrial, data processing. And new markets : security, e-health, sustainable developments...
In 2010, this market amounts : €20,7 billion in Europe, €1,050 billion worldwide.
President : Jean-Pierre QUEMARD, R&T Director CASSIDIAN Systems
Executive Officer : Yves LE GOFF
GIXEL offers a wide range of activities to improve the business environment of electronic components manufacturers :
- The GIXEL electronic technical day , the "JTE"
3 events in one day : b2b meetings, exhibition, presentations
Promoting innovative components & systems for new products: Electric vehicule - smart building - broadband for all.
for R&D engineers, designers...
in the historical city of Versailles. - Environmental & Technical information
Follow up of European directives, transposition into french legislation with support of FIEEC: the WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipments) RoSH (restriction on hazardous substances), expression of common interest
- R&D Support
- follow up of R&D programmes : VIIth FWP - EURIPIDES- CATRENE- GALILEO- CEPA2...
- access to R&D programmes
- Vision of the market
Components survey by DECISION Consulting,
Monthly statistics
Confidence index - Workshops per domain:
Smart Card Committee
contacts with the French administration (ANTS) about the future national electronic identity card...
Creation of a common platform for smart card applications.
PCBs
Support for the location of PCBs plants in EUROPE - the pcb industry is "strategic" for the electronics market
SSI, smart sensors
Follow up of R&D programs : EURIPIDES, EUREKA, 7TH FWP..
organisation of technical days : security, sensors...
Connectors
.Publication of the yearly market forecasts by segment
. coorganisation of the JTE
. meetings with the distributors (SPDEI), ZVEI
Capacitors club
Elaboration of market trends and forecasts. Results only available for members.
- Support for SMEs abroad to enlarge their market
GIXEL organizes collective booth : Paris air show 2011 (le Bourget) - - Electronica 2010 (Munich)
GIXEL is a member of FIEEC- FEDERATION DES INDUSTRIES ELECTRIQUES ET ELECTRONIQUES ET DE COMMUNICATION : 21 professionnal associations, 1 900 companies, (86% are SMEs),
380 000 employees, 78 billion € turn over. www.fieec.fr
GIXEL is a member of EECA - EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC COMPONENTS MANUFACTURERS ORGANISATION -
organized in 4 branches :
EPIA (packaging and interconnection
EPCIA (passive components)
www.eeca.org
EPCIA Board
On October 2010, Ralph Bronold, VP Sales TDK EPC was re-elected President of EPCIA (European Passive Components Industry Association) with 2 VP : Reinhard Sperlich, General Sales Manager MURATA ELEKTRONIK GMBH for Technology issues and Yves Le Goff, Managing Director of GIXEL and of EURIPIDES, Cluster of EUREKA, for European Development and Funding Programs.