Finmeccanica S.p.A.

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Finmeccanica is Italy's second largest industrial group. It works in the fields of defence, aerospace, helicopters, automation, transport and energy. The company has offices in over 100 countries, and employs 41,000 people. Turnover of 7.7 Bn Euros

1 Divisions
2 Subdivisions
3 Product range
4 External links

Divisions

Aeronautics

Alenia Aeronautica
- Officine Aeronavali
- ATR (50%, with Aerospatiale, today EADS).
  World leader in the 40–70 seat turboprop market.
Aermacchi
Quadrics
A supercomputing company. Quadrics and Bull of France are currently cooperating on Europe's fastest supercomputer: the 60 teraflops French Tera10.

Helicopters

AgustaWestland (100%)
Helicopter design and manufacturing company based in Italy and the United Kingdom. It was formed as a joint venture in July 2000 when Finmeccanica and GKN plc agreed to merge their helicopter subsidiaries. AgustaWestland is now a fully owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica.

Space

Alenia Spazio
Telespazio

Defence Electronics

SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems (S&AS) (75%).
Merger of Galileo Avionica (formerly Alenia Difesia) and BAE Systems Avionics. Finmeccanica thus becomes the second defense electronics group in Europe, after Thales of France.
Selenia Communications

Defence Systems

MBDA (25%)
A joint venture company with EADS and BAE Systems, MBDA is the world's No.2 missile manufacturer after Raytheon.

Information Technology

Elsag

Energy

Ansaldo Energia.
The company has more than a hundred years of power generation experience and an installed capacity exceeding 153,000 MW in over 75 countries. Revenues in 2003 stood at 802 million euros.
Ansaldo Fuel Cells
In June 2004 Ansaldo Fuel Cells inaugurated the Terni industrial fuel cell production facility for stationary applications. The production capacity, initially 3 MW, should of 15 MW by 2006.

Transportation

Ansaldo Breda
Heavy and Light Rail Vehicles are to be found in Denmark (83 diesel trains and 19–29 metro cars), Norway (36 electric trains+16 light metro vehicles), Madrid (180 heavy metro vehicles), Gothenberg (40 Sirio light rail stock), Birmingham+Manchester (32+6 light metro vehicles), Lille (24 light metro vehicles), SanFrancisco+Boston (151+100 light metro vehicles), Atlanta+LosAngeles (100+42 heavy metro vehicles), and Athens (35 Sirio light rail vehicles).

Subdivisions

Alcatel Alenia Space
(33%, with Alcatel 67%), the European Space industry leader
ST Mircoelectronics (major shareholder, together with Areva and France Telecom of France).
Europe's number one microelectronics company. The CEO is Carlo Bozotti. ST is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies. In 2004, ST's net revenues were US$8,760 million and net earnings were US$601 million. The company has eight 8-inch manufacturing sites around the world, plus 12-inch manufacturing facilities in Crolles, France, and Catania, Italy.
Horizon SAS and EuroSysNav
50–50 joint ventures between DCN/Thales of France and Finmeccanica/Fincantieri of Italy for the design and construction of 27 FREMM multirole frigates and 4 Horizon anti-air frigates. FREMM/Horizon, at a cost of 4.3 billion euros, is Europe's largest naval program
Eurotorp
50–50 joint venture between Finmeccanica and DCN/Thales of France. Eurotorp is the world market leader for lightweight torpedoes, and the European leading company in antisubmarine weapon systems.
NHIndustries
Italy has a 32% stake in the program, France 31.25%, Germany 31.25%, and The Netherlands 5.5%
Eurofighter GmbH (21%)
Joint venture with EADS and BAE Systems for co-ordination of the design, production and upgrade of Eurofighter Typhoon.
Lockheed Martin Alenia Tactical Transport Systems (50%, with Lockheed Martin)
Joint company formed in 1997 for the development of the C-27J Spartan, a further development of Alenia's G222.

Product range

NH Industries NH90	US101 variant of AgustaWestland EH101	Aermacchi M346/Eurotrainer	The Alenia Satellite Integration Facility in Rome, the only such facility in Europe.
Carnival Destiny. When launched by Fincantieri it was the world's largest cruise ship	Franco-Italian Horizon	ATR 72–500 and 42–500	Sicral, the first European military comsat to operate simultaneously in the SHF, EHF and UHF bands
Sky-X, Alenia UAV which has flown in 2005. Alenia aims to be part of the Dassault (France)-led European Neuron program for UAVs.	Falco, GalileoAvionica UAV	Light rail vehicle Sirio. Used in Athens, Gothenberg, Florence and Milan	Heavy metro vehicles in Madrid
21% of Eurofighter Typhoon	The Fincantieri Destriero, which won the "Blue Ribbon" in 1992 for the fastest Atlantic crossing at an average speed of 53 knots	AB139. AgustaWestland has 75% of the program	C27J Spartan
Tera10, Europe's fastest supercomputer, 60 teraflops (courtesy of www.bull.com)	Terni fuel cell plant diagram, Ansaldo Fuel Cells