COLD PAD
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Solution Overview
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Structural repair and fastening still rely on welding and drilling тАФ hot work permits, shutdowns and fastening that weakens the very structure it protects. The same trade-off runs through building envelopes: external insulation is pierced by thousands of mechanical fixings, and the thermal bridges they create quietly erode the performance the system was installed to deliver. At sea, on wind towers and on fa├зades, the way things are attached keeps working against what they are attached to.
Our Solution:
Cold Pad designs bonded fastening and structural reinforcement systems that carry load through an adhesive footprint instead of a weld or a drilled hole. In practice, a technician prepares the surface, positions the pad or claw, and applies a cold-cure adhesive тАФ no hot work, no permits, no penetration of the substrate. The asset keeps operating throughout, and installation stays within reach of rope-access teams, on steel, composite or concrete. On fa├зades, the same principle removes the fixing penetration and the thermal bridge with it. Every system is qualified and type-approved by the following bodies depending of the application : DNV, ABS and Bureau Veritas for steel, ETA (European Technical Assessment) for Civil Engineering.
How it works:
Cold Pad is the only bonded technology qualified for 35 years in a marine environment on steel, and the only one to hold a European Technical Assessment (ETA) for a 50-year design life on concrete. It is also the sole bonded fastening technology qualified for nuclear power plants and for launcher applications with MaiaSpace (ArianeGroup). That performance comes from a patented vacuum process combined with a patented peripheral seal that shields the adhesive from its environment, and from adhesive chemistry selected and developed with our long-standing partner Henkel тАФ making the bond a qualified structural component, not just a temporary fix.
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Impact & SDGs
Contribution to any of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals:
Affordable and Clean Energy, sustainable Cities, Responsible Production, Climate action: our bonding technology replaces welding тАФ a source of tower structural degradation that forces steel over-consumption to compensate, at a time when millions of tons of COтВВ per year go into wind tower manufacturing. It also removes the need for neodymium magnets, an application that absorbs around 1% of global rare-earth production and carries a disastrous environmental footprint. In nuclear power plants, we are used for maintenance, cutting plant downtime because bonding is faster and safer than drilling into sensitive concrete structures. In civil engineering, we are developing a fa├зade cladding system that reduces thermal bridging and improves building insulation.
Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure: We are the only bonded technology qualified for 35 years on steel and 50 years on concrete, and we will equip Ariane’s MaiaSpace launchers for their first missions in 2027.
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Team & Organization
Founding team:
Julien BEC: CEO. 25 years of innovation as Engineer and Executive member for : Airbus, Stellantis and in Shipping-GTT (Julien developped and commercialised the technology at the origin of the first LNG propelled large Container Vessels with clients such as CMA CGM, Hapag Lloyds, Maersk…). www.linkedin.com/in/bec-julien
