THE ORIGINS

Eurofeedback was founded by Jean-Yves MARTIN, power electronics engineer, at the age of 37.

At that time, power electronics made strong progress and began to become a profession for specialists. Faced with this observation, large companies are refocusing their design offices on their core business and are turning to subcontracting for these specialized trades. Eurofeedback is born from the opportunity offered by this change in the market and will become this specialist. As in the best entrepreneurial stories, Jean-Yves, with his seventeen years of experience in the field and passionate about his profession,begins in a small cellar of a building with an office area and a laboratory area. He works day and night for his first client: Thalès. Eurofeedback designs and manufactures ATOP traveling wave tube power supplies for it.  The company will evolve, grow, undergo transformations and diversifications, but this initial DNA will guide all these evolutions and continues today:innovation and expertise in power electronics and optics at the service piloting tubes (or flash lamps). And this, with a level of robustness and reliability well beyond consumer standards, in the space and military fields. A know-how around light refined during more than 30 years of adventures in the industrial, space, and military markets for renowned companies such as General Electrics, Thalès, Philips, Alcatel, and around which will be designed and manufactured power supplies or test benches for in particular: 

• cathode ray tubes for television screens,
• cathode ray screens in airplane cockpits,
• X-ray tubes for scanners,
• radiotherapy tubes,
• night vision tubes,
• Xenon tubes for very high-speed printers.

For eight years, Eurofeedback designs and manufactures impressive test benches for cathode ray tubes for Philips (under Windows 3.11). They will be deployed in Philips factories around the world.

This equipment, over 10 meters long and delivering 40,000 volts, was present on the television assembly lines of Philips factories. They had to deliver high power 24 hours a day to make the cathode-ray tubes "flash" to their limits and thus reject too fragile televisions.

Eurofeedback engineers knew how to design generators delivering high power in a stable and perfectly controlled manner. However, they had to acquire new know-how: to make them robust and reliable to the point of being able to deliver this power with operating constraints 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Eurofeedback begins its history with the design of specialized power supplies used by Thalès Space engineers to test ATOP traveling wave tubes used by satellites for terrestrial communication, a “space” story with Thalès Space which will last until 2016.

It works in parallel for Thalès Avionique designing high-voltage test benches for the control of the screens of civil Airbus cockpits as well as the power supplies for the head-up sights of fighter planes.

Growing, it moved to industrial premises with more space for manufacturing in Lisses, 30km south of Paris.

Design and manufacture of pulsed UV generators which allow tests to be carried out before developing industrial decontamination and polymerization systems.

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