In the “Silicon Valley of Grenoble”, the project was already known, but it still had to come to fruition while the entire electronics sector was torn by headwinds. Thought in 2018, recorded as a final investment decision in 2023, it was finally at the end of 2025 that the Campus building emerged from the ground. It was inaugurated this Tuesday on the historic Lynred site in Veurey-Voroize (Isère), in the suburbs of Grenoble.
With a double promise: to allow the European leader in infrared technologies, originally based on technology from CEA Leti forty years ago, to double its current surface area of clean rooms (which thus increases to 8,000 m2), in order to produce as many infrared sensors over the next 7 years as since its creation. That is to say more than 3 million.
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The ambition is “historic” according to the group (which achieved 223 million euros in turnover in 2023, including 80% from exports), and the resources granted too: because in total, it is a global envelope of 100 million euros (including the cost of buildings as well as industrial transfer operations) which will have been invested by its two shareholders, Safran and Thales, in equity (notably in the form of a leasing) in order to realize this new organizational, but also technological, bet.
Because behind this equipment lies the promise of addressing a gradual but complex increase in volume, with a view to producing infrared sensors in industrial quantities and relying on the semiconductor industry.  A first step before the automobile market takes off Â,” says Hervé Bouaziz, president of Lynred.
