AVENTON (formerly known as ''MATIS Group'') was a privately owned international company specialized in technological and management consulting. They were acquired by Alten. The group positions itself as engineering & advanced technology consulting service provider, product and process development partner for Aeronautics and Space, Automotive, Energies,

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, Telecom,

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and

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industrial sectors. Core competencies are mechanical, software, hardware, paper bag produce, telecom engineering and support including project management, manufacturing engineering, quality, supply chain.

History

The MATIS Group was founded in France by Maurice Guez in 1994. Every year since going international in 2005 the MATIS Group expanded its business by about 20% to 30% in average. End of 2012, MATIS Group employed about 1.600 people in total and generated revenue of approximately 101 million EUR.

Locations

MATIS is based in 25 locations including Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland) where it was born, in south america (Brazil) and north africa (Morocco).

Subsidiaries

MATIS France

As France is the country of origin of the group, MATIS can look back on a long history there. Up to now France is the most important market for the group, accounting for more than 50% of the employees and about 50% of the generated revenue. The international HQ is located in

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

, national offices are situated in

Belfort Belfort (; archaic , ) is a city in northeastern France, situated approximately from the Swiss border. It is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Territoire de Belfort. Belfort is from Paris and from Basel. The residents of the city ...

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

Le Havre Le Havre is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy (administrative region), Normandy region of northern France. It is situated on the right bank of the estuary of the Seine, river Seine on the English Channel, Channe ...

Lille Lille (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders. Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Prefectures in F ...

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

Rennes Rennes (; ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in Northwestern France at the confluence of the rivers Ille and Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the Brittany (administrative region), Brittany Regions of F ...

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

MATIS Hispania

MATIS Hispania operates three locations in Spain: The head bureau in

Barcelona Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

and two offices in

Pamplona Pamplona (; ), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Navarre, Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain. Lying at near above sea level, the city (and the wider Cuenca de Pamplona) is located on the flood pl ...

and

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, producing a turnover of about 5,5 million EUR with 120 employees.

MATIS Benelux

The head office of MATIS Benelux is located in

Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...

. In 2011 a new site was established in

Eindhoven Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also locat ...

. MATIS Benelux is employing some 150 people and earning about 11.5 million EUR.

MATIS do Brasil

The HQ of MATIS do Brasil is situated in

Campinas Campinas (, ''Plains'' or ''Meadows'') is a Brazilian Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in São Paulo (state), São Paulo State, part of the country's Southeast Region, Brazil, Southeast Region. According to the 2020 estimate, the city's popul ...

north of São Paulo with new offices to be opened in future.

MATIS Switzerland

Launched in April 2011, MATIS Swiss has opened its first offices in

Zurich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

and

Geneva Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the ca ...

MATIS Netherlands

MATIS Netherlands opened its first office in Eindhoven in January 2012. With its major high tech industry, the Eindhoven region is often referred to as the silicon valley of Europe. However, MATIS has been active in the region since 2008.

References

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