Activity

Created in 1986, EGIDE designs, manufactures and sells hermetic packages for the protection and interconnection of a variety of electronic or photonic chips.

These packages aim at ensuring the invulnerability of integrated electronic systems or sophisticated chips, which are therefore fragile and sensitive to thermal, atmospheric or magnetic conditions.

Key dates

1986 : Egide was created in order to meet with the needs of the French Defence industry for hermetically-sealed packages for sensitive components ; the company is specialised in glass-to-metal seal.

1992 : Acquisition of the "encapsulation" activity from the company Xeram, then subsidiary of the group Pechiney Group, which had developed a ceramic to metal seal industry. Egide becomes the sole European specialist in high temperature co-fired ceramic (HTCC), which enables it to develop intelligent packages.

1994 : Enters the telecommunication market (optical transmission), which gives it in 1998 the impetus to expand exponentially.

1999 : Listed on the Paris stock exchange.

2000 : Acquisition of the American manufacturer of packages Electronic Packaging Products Inc. (EPP, renamed Egide USA), ensuring an industrial presence in the United States. Egide creates a subsidiary in Morocco.

2002 : Acquisition of the main assets of the British company Europlus, the subsidiary Egide UK is created for this purpose. Europlus contributes the MIM technology. Metal Injection Molding allows Egide to offer low cost high volume pricing particularly for telecommunications components.

2002 : Opening of a factory in Morocco under the subsidiary Egima, designed for producing large volumes, at reduced costs, for commercial markets.

2005 : Continuation of the diversification in order to balance the turnover over the different markets of the company. Mr. Philippe Brégi takes over as head of the company as Chief Executive Officer, and successor to the former CEO who has taken retirement.

2009 : Impct of the worldwide economic crisis. The production on the Maroccan site is stopped .

2010 : Step-by-stepp recovery in term of sales. Upturn of the Telecom Market.

Updated 9/24/10