CESVIMAP

• Research centre of vehicle repair:
  • Bodywork, paintwork, electro-mechanics
  • Passenger vehicles, motorcycles, trucks, buses and agricultural vehicles
  • Repair proceses, products and equipment
• Studies to produce time sheets for replacement and repair, and paintwork times and materials.
• Consultancy service for repair shops and dealerships: guidance on design, audit reports, management system creation and quality certification programmes.
• Consultancy service for insurance companies: guidance on selection of claims inspectors, road traffic reconstruction reports, material damage control.
• Courses: Design and execution of specific training for claims inspectors, insurance companies, repair shops and dealerships. Face-to-face and on-line.
• Technical publications on repair, paintwork, crash reconstruction, text books for technical schools, videos, CESVIMAP magazine. On-line publications.
• End of Life Vehicle Treatment Centre:
  • Depollution of vehicles and reusable parts dismantling
  • Sale of reusable parts

• CESVIMAP, Research, Training and Engineering Centre: 9,000 m²
  • Technical offices
  • Research workshop: 2,100 m²
  • Crash test zone
  • Video production
  • 5 theory classrooms and 5 practical teaching rooms (1 for paintwork)
  • Auditorium
• END OF LIFE VEHICLE TREATMENT CENTRE: 11,500m²
  • Vehicle reception zone: 5,000 m²
  • Treatment plant: 6,500 m², with capacity for more than 3,500 cars per year
  • Depollution and dismantling zone, with automatic platform for moving vehicles; automatic parts warehouse: 60,000 m³; picking zone.

• Since 1983, when CESVIMAP was created, its objectives have been:
  • Automobile repair research
  • Publication of research results and relaying to insurance companies (claims inspectors, principally), repair shops and all other sectors concerned.