On the eve of World Defence Show 2024 in Riyadh, Texelis and Advanced Armoured Engineering (AAE) officially announced a new partnership on developing new land Defence solutions for their customers.

Texelis, a provider of mobility solutions for military and heavy vehicles, has been supplying mechanical parts such as axles for decades, both for the French Army, its main client, as well as for export markets such as Serbia. In 2017, Texelis signed a contract to supply the French Army with 4×4 armoured vehicles in partnership with Nexter.

4×4 APC built on Texelis’ CELERIS

Building on that success, Texelis is now offering full mobility solutions for OEMs and other actors looking to develop new vehicles or associated services in the 12-18t range. 

Launched under the name CELERIS, this offer combines already developed and qualified hardware and software kits as well as full support and documentation to develop an all-new vehicle based on the CELERIS mobility platform, conduct all necessary adaptations and support it throughout its life cycle.

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Texelis’ CELERIS solution is a great alternative for customers looking for high-performance mobility, which commercial chassis cannot offer, without the hassle, expenses and delays of developing an in-house solution. 

Looking forward to expanding that offer and to better serve its customers and partners, Texelis aims at better understanding the technical intricacies of adapting and integrating different protection solutions.

4×4 APC built on Texelis’ CELERIS

Advanced Armour Engineering (AAE) is a provider of armoured steel-based survivability solutions for heavy military vehicles that they sell to the international vehicle OEM community and which are complementary to Texelis’ mobility platform solution.

Through the new partnership with AAE, Texelis will benefit from AAE’s expertise and insight and will work on interfacing AAE’s armoured solutions on Texelis’ platforms, thus developing new processes and offers.

Texelis’ and AAE’s solutions combined can offer a great opportunity for new or current manufacturers to create new ranges and develop new vehicles from scratch in record time. 

According to Texelis, under the MoU, both companies will work jointly on developing joint solutions, which could help manufacturers develop brand new vehicles from scratch in record time, while both companies will be helping each other expand in their traditional markets, Europe for Texelis and the Middle East for AAE.

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