While defense generally keeps a low profile in the Walloon Region, it is no less one of the region’s major sectors and boasts a number of Walloon flagship industries, led by the project’s industrial partners PB Clermont and FN Herstal.
The PEA project is being conducted in partnership with Belgium’s Royal Military Academy and Liège University in a tight economic context characterized in particular by the price war caused by the massive unloading of U.S. products at low prices on the European market. The aim of the project is to develop a powder for small-caliber firearms to reduce barrel erosion when they are fired.
This already innovative project on the world stage is a breakthrough innovation in the small arms ammunition market. The major technological advances to which this development will give rise will enable both PB Clermont and FN Herstal to release innovative products on the market, products that will create true differentiation likely to lead to significant economic growth and the maintenance of, even growth in industrial jobs in the Walloon Region for years to come.
