Roxel France
Route d'Ardon
F-45240 La Ferté-Saint Aubin
T.: +33 2 38 51 66 66
F.: +33 2 38 51 66 33
www.roxelgroup.com
Owner: Roxel
www.roxelgroup.com
La Ferté-Saint-Aubin site: develops and produces rocket motors and solid propellant rockets; specialises in complex metallic structures, thermal insulations, laser welding and pyrotechnics for civil applications and conducts research for customers such as MBDA, Thales, Airbus, Snecma and the French Ministry of Defence.
Roxel is the largest supplier of propulsion systems for tactical weapons in Europe and the third largest in the world. Roxel is jointly owned and controlled by its two parent companies, MBDA and SNPE, France’s leading supplier of energetic materials, pharmaceuticals and chemicals. The company produces the propulsion system for key European missile programmes such as the Aster family of anti-missile missiles as well as supplying rocket motors for MBDA’s Asraam air-to-air missile, Exocet anti-ship weapon, Vertical Launch Seawolf naval point defence system and Rapier/Jernas air defence system.