Plastic Omnium signs technological partnership with McPhy for hydrogen solution boost

Plastic Omnium (Île-de-France, France) has signed a technological partnership with McPhy (France), a specialist in hydrogen production and distribution equipment. One of the central aspects of this partnership is to collaborate on filling protocols and interfaces between hydrogen stations and Type IV composite high-pressure vessels, thereby helping broaden Plastic Omnium’s expertise across the entire hydrogen value chain, which includes solutions for hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (see “Plastic Omnium aims for world leadership in hydrogen mobility”).

Convinced of hydrogen’s major role in tomorrow’s sustainable mobility, Plastic Omnium has built up technological and industrial expertise since 2015. Its production capacities — now operational — enable the Group to provide its customers with a complete range of solutions across the entire hydrogen value chain, from overwrapped carbon fiber high-pressure vessels to fuel cells stacks and the integrated hydrogen systems.

“Sustainable mobility challenges require an agile and open approach. This partnership with McPhy ties in perfectly with Plastic Omnium’s strategy to develop its expertise in this sector, in order to extend its technological and industrial lead in the rapidly growing hydrogen market,” confirms Laurent Favre, CEO of Plastic Omnium.

In particular, Plastic Omnium says this technological collaboration will aim to improve the performance and connectivity of high-pressure vessels, by analyzing and mining the data generated by the interface at the filling station.

Plastic Omnium and McPhy are also looking at developing joint commercial products and solutions starting from the needs’ analysis phase, for Plastic Omnium’s historic customers as well as new hydrogen mobility players.

“This partnership with Plastic Omnium, with whom we share the same technological and industrial challenges, is an example of cooperation that McPhy intends to implement in order to cross-fertilize its expertise with other major stakeholders in the hydrogen sector, in a true sector logic,” concludes Laurent Carme, CEO of McPhy. “It allows us to accelerate the development of hydrogen stations, to prepare an industrialized, market-scaled and competitive offer.”