A Decentralized, Scalable Organization

Paris – BrightLoop’s central hub

BrightLoop’s headquarters and R&D center are situated in Paris, the organization's central hub. Here we consolidate all activities from design to prototyping, testing, and low-volume production of a few tens of units per year. The expertise and capacity of our Paris team ensures swift responsiveness and accelerates project development, enabling us to deliver solutions to our clients' needs promptly.

Through research and development work, our engineering team actively identifies emerging technology trends and growth areas and develops advanced solutions tailored to the needs of future electrification applications.

Lannion – A scalable industrial facility

Our industrial facility is located in Lannion, in northern Brittany. The Lannion Technopole, historically known as the French "Telecom Valley," today attracts skilled engineers and technicians drawn by the presence of cutting-edge industries specializing in electronics, photonics and biotechnologies.

Our Lannion site industrializes the solutions developed by the Paris team, managing the assembly and testing of pre-series and high-mix low- to mid-volume series. The entire industrialization process is structured according to the New Product Introduction (NPI) process management methodology. Annual production capacity amounts up to 5,000 converters.

Globalized production strategies

Drawing from an inventive manufacturing framework, our flexible and modular structure mirrors the topology of our product design, enabling agile production strategies. We like to say that our industrial facility is a gigawatt factory unit model, which can be replicated globally to meet the growing demand for high-quality, high-power converters at a local level. Furthermore, to scale up production volumes, we have partnered with carefully selected EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services) providers, ensuring full manufacturing and testing under BrightLoop’s close oversight. Involved in a worldwide supply chain, we closely collaborate with key local and international players to deliver our products to every corner of the globe.

With a workforce growth of more than 50% in 2023, our team now comprises 70 employees, with 40 based in Paris and 30 in Lannion.

Defying the limits of power conversion

Backed by our long-standing expertise of tailor-made power conversion solutions, we have developed a platform designed to meet the electrification requirements of the most demanding applications, whether industrial or e-mobility related. Drawing on the most recent semiconductor technologies, we anticipate solutions that will play a pivotal role in driving the energy transition.

Our extensive range of off-the-shelf products is the result of in-depth knowledge and expertise in power electronics, mechatronics, and software control. Through multiple design iterations, we make the most of every single component to deliver powerful, ready to use converters. Our products are flexible, compact and lightweight, raising new standards in energy efficiency.

Embedding the latest widebandgap semiconductor technologies

We stay attuned to the latest semiconductor advancements. At the microscale, our low voltage systems embark the most efficient GaN HEMTs (Gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors) while our high voltage systems house SiC MOSFETs (Silicon carbide metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors). SiC- and GaN-based power electronics offer superior performance and size reductions compared with conventional semiconductor devices.

Our engineering teams leverage the intrinsic advantages of wide-bandgap semiconductor technologies. They are thus able to effectively increase power density, optimize thermal dissipation and reduce switching and conduction losses as well as reverse recovery time. We consolidate our technology advance through partnerships with leading electronic component manufacturers, offering our clients the most efficient power conversion systems availble.

Galvanic isolated transformers

Some operating conditions require galvanic isolation of a converter’s input and output stages. Our R&D team has developed a revolutionary approach to DC-DC galvanic isolation, using transformers that operate at high frequencies up to 300 kHz. This innovation results in end-to-end AC-DC conversion systems capable of efficiently handling MW-class demands within a package size 5,000 times smaller than conventional grid-frequency transformers.

This groundbreaking achievement marks an industry first, overcoming the constraints of space and weight associated with bulky transformers and unlocking new opportunities for remote and offshore applications.