Claire Pelerin is a development technician in the Research & Development department at Atlantic. Every day, she designs and designs the parts that will be used in the boilers produced by the group, established since 2016 in Billy Berclau, where nearly 300 employees manufacture new generation heat pumps and boilers, in a factory fully certified High Environmental Quality.

An HQE label that all employees followed closely. It still serves as a reference in terms of eco-transition, eco-design in a field of activity where the notions of energy mix and reduction of consumption take on their full meaning and guide each development.

The standards and their regular evolutions are rather well received by the one who constantly “outlines” the solutions that will make it possible to respond to these changes. For her, they are synonymous with questioning and new challenges to overcome.

Boilers must now be able to disappear inside a kitchen unit. This shrinkage is not without raising a number of issues that Claire is committed to solving to allow assemblers and fitters to work in the best conditions.

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The eco-transition is not only a matter of ecology. Gestures and postures, their anticipation vis-à-vis all the players in the chain, work ergonomics are also a priority for the Research & Development department. It is common that, whatever their role, members of the service embark on the assembly of a boiler or a PAC (heat pump). It is in this way that the feasibility and the viability of what has been designed are verified. “We even went so far as to invite our packaging supplier to take part in our discussions and their implementation. We work as much for the protection of the product as for that of the collaborators and partners, of our service providers. »

Behind her computer screens, Claire knows that it is important to prepare, to anticipate the future and to support the transition which takes and will take time. All of this is part of a logical sequence, a coherent whole which has as its core, in the territory of Artois, the factory of Billy Berclau.

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At home, with the same attention and in perfect communion with her husband, they take care at their level to contribute to the eco-transition of the territory. “We are very vigilant. I drive around in a hybrid vehicle, my husband's next car will be electric, waste sorting and hunting are legion at home. “Next step: convince his teenage son to meet his friends on foot or by bike rather than by interposed screens, especially since most live close by.

Originally from Saint Omer, the family settled in the land of Artois for professional reasons and, at the same time, to satisfy a desire for the countryside and breathing space.

A favorite ? The answer, or rather the answers, burst forth: the Louvre-Lens, of course, but also the Comédie de Béthune that Claire particularly appreciates, a Racing Club de Lens match of course and then… an invitation: “Visit Béthune! How beautiful is this city...” The crush turned into a cry from the heart.