To deliver on our strategy as a pure player in sustainable electrification, Nexans has structured its R&D work around four core priorities:
- Powering the world with electricity. Developing transmission and distribution solutions capable of meeting rapidly growing global energy demand, driven by the expansion of renewable energy sources and emerging electrical uses.
- Ensuring network reliability. Designing technologies that prevent failures, reduce the risk of blackouts, and secure critical infrastructure — from urban distribution grids to high-voltage submarine interconnections.
- Reducing environmental footprint. Integrating lower-impact materials from the design stage, measuring and publishing the environmental data of our products, and limiting carbon emissions across the entire product lifecycle.
- Optimizing the competitiveness of our solutions. Delivering high-performance, customizable, and cost-effective products designed to reduce the total cost of ownership for our clients and partners.
In 2022, to translate these ambitions into action, Nexans invested nearly €20 million in the modernization of its global R&D hub: AmpaCity, in Lyon, France. In 2025, the Group took another major step with the inauguration of Stella Nova, its center of excellence dedicated to breakthrough technologies, in Hanover, Germany.
Two centers of excellence driving innovation
Nexans organizes its R&D capabilities around complementary sites, each dedicated to distinct and strategically important technological domains.
AmpaCity: the laboratory of decarbonized electrification
Spanning 4,500 m² of state-of-the-art laboratories, AmpaCity brings together around one hundred international experts, engineers, researchers and technicians, from ten different nationalities. This is where Nexans designs the electrical solutions that will power the networks, buildings and industries of tomorrow.
