The AREVA Installed Base business unit, as part of the AREVA Reactors and Services Business Group, employs 5,000 people in 20 locations worldwide. It services nuclear power plant operators around the world by providing products, services and innovative solutions for maintenance, upgrading, modernization, lifetime extension and reactor completion. This also includes the delivery of engineering services and Instrumentation & Control (I&C) systems
– By Chris Smith –
AREVA has appointed Philippe Samama as executive vice president of its Installed Base business unit. Samama, 44, is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and holds an MBA from the INSEAD Business School.
Previously, he was vice president of AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution Service business unit. Before joining AREVA in 2007, Philippe Samama held various international positions with significant success in different industries, including Pechiney/Alcan, Valeo and the Saint Gobain group.
Throughout his international career, Samama has gained extensive experience in service activities, project management and engineering. He has built excellent relationships with utilities worldwide.
“In Philippe Samama we have found a highly experienced leader for managing the Installed Base business activities,” said Philippe Knoche, AREVA Reactors and Services senior vice president. “Clearly, our main priority at AREVA remains to provide world-class solutions to our customers with the highest safety and security standards,” Knoche concluded.
The AREVA Installed Base business unit, as part of the AREVA Reactors and Services Business Group, employs 5,000 people in 20 locations worldwide. It services nuclear power plant operators around the world by providing products, services and innovative solutions for maintenance, upgrading, modernization, lifetime extension and reactor completion. This also includes the delivery of engineering services and Instrumentation & Control (I&C) systems.
AREVA supplies solutions for carbon-free power generation. Its expertise and know-how in this field are setting the standard, and its responsible development is anchored in a process of continuous improvement.
As a global nuclear industry leader, AREVA’s unique integrated offer to utilities covers every stage of the fuel cycle, nuclear reactor design and construction, and related services. The group is also expanding considerably in renewable energies – wind, solar, bioenergies, hydrogen and storage – to be one of the top three in this sector worldwide in 2012.
Every day, AREVA’s 50,000 employees cultivate the synergies between these two major carbon-free offers, helping to supply safer, cleaner and more economical energy to the greatest number of people.