TWO GREAT MEN - LOUIS ARNOUX & GUY NÈGRE
    CHANGING THE 21st CENTURY

Nine years ago Dr Louis Arnoux, originally from France, set up the IndraNet Group of Companies, based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, and Toulon, France to “change the way the world communicates”.

He and co-developer, physicist Andrew McGregor, are building a fourth generation  broadband multimedia network and telecommunications infrastructure that is “non-hierarchical and self-healing”. 

He holds a Masters of Engineering degree from ENSIA, Paris, France, and a PhD (Rural Development) from Sorbonne University, Paris, France. He has 36 years experience in industrial development, R&D, technology development, transfer and marketing, program and project management, market research, long range strategic planning, environmental and social assessment, and communications.

Read Dr Louis Arnoux Profile

Guy Nègre, 65, chairman of MDI, has spent his life working on improving the efficiency of engines, be it to power light civil aircraft, Formula-I cars, or the no-emission ones running on compressed air.

Cyril Nègre, 37, who joined his father’s firm 12 years ago and heads R&D efforts after a three-year stint at Bugatti Automobili, the Italian company that makes the fantastic Veyron, the world’s fastest passenger car.

MDI is a small, family-controlled company, founded in Luxembourg but now located at Carros, near Nice (southern France) where Guy and Cyril Nègre, together with their technical team, have developed a new engine technology with the purpose of economising energy and respect severe ecological requirements -- at competitive costs.

MDI have over 20 patents for their technology  
Read Guy Nègre Profile

- on wireless network front  

Dr Louis Arnoux - Profile Louis is founder and Managing Director of IndraNet Group of companies, based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, and Toulon, France.

Louis is Managing Director of - IndraNet Technologies Ltd, (Parent Company) 
                                                           IT Mondial Pty Ltd, (Global Commercialisation)
                                                           IT MDI-Energy Pty Ltd. (Australasian Commercialisation)

The IndraNet Group is the developer of the advanced IndraNet broadband mesh communication technology, designed to enable revolutionary Networked Infrastructures for Communications, Energy and Transport:

• Transport of Data via IndraNet FraMe broadband networks;
• Transport of Energy through Intelligent Power Networks enabled by IndraNet FraMes
  and incorporating MDI’s power generation technology;
• Transport of Goods and People through networked advanced MDI zero emission vehicles.

Dr Louis Arnoux holds a Masters of Engineering degree from ENSIA, Paris, France and a PhD (Development) from Sorbonne University, Paris France. Dr Louis Arnoux has 37 years experience in industrial development, R &D, technology development, transfer and marketing.  He has worked in a change management capacity with some of the largest state owned and private sector organisations in Europe, Australia and New Zealand as well as with small start-up ventures, focusing on technology transfers, marketing and accelerated market diffusion of new technologies.  Dr Louis Arnoux has considerable market research and marketing experience in the domain of new technology.  Achievements are wide ranging from process industries through energy infrastructures, transport and communication.

Dr Louis Arnoux's key focus is in managing the complex processes that begin with novel ideas and lead to new industries producing disruptive technologies, products and services through processes of technology substitutions.  He as worked closely with European, Australian, New Zealand and Asian private sector and government bodies in the energy transport, water and waste management infrastructure industries, assisting in a number of restructuring, long range planning and new industrial development processes. As a part of this work he has been involved in the fostering, management and evaluation of numerous innovations processes.

During the 1980's, in the context of the then New Zealand Energy and Research Development Committee (NZERDC) Dr Louis Arnoux has been responsible for programming, planning, budgeting and evaluating several thousand research proposals and in projects distributed to more than 200 private sector and university bodies and in developing international relations with a wide range of related overseas R & D and innovation bodies, private and public.  During this period Dr Louis Anroux was part of the Government - Industry Value Adding Partnership and task force that created the New Zeeland CNG Industry in response to the second oil shock.  From a set of lab results and a zero-base start industrially, and VAP achieved its objectives and commercially converted 10% on the New Zeeland fleet over a five-year period and exported its technology and expertise globally. The VAP covered all aspect required by the accelerated creation of an entire new industry, including vehicles conversions, refuelling network, engineering and commercial training, insurance, regulations and standards, financing, market research, marketing and advertising to professional audiences and the general public.

In recent years Dr Louis Arnoux has co-invented the IndraNet Technology and played a key part in the creation and promotion of IndraNet Technologies Ltd with a view to develop and commercialise the IndraNet broadband communications technology, allied technologies and applications in the communications, energy and transport sectors. In parallel, Dr Louis Arnoux has developed a strong business relationship and alliance with Moteur Development International s.a.

Dr Louis Anroux's objective, jointly with associate company MDI, is in contributing to the emergence of a global "Plan B" and the accelerated transaction to the necessary, sustainable, non-hierarchical, distributed, communication, energy and transport infrastructures that the world now urgently requires to address cost effectively, comparatively and in time the global issues of Peak Oil, fast declining net energy from fossil fuels and rapid Climate change.

Dr Louis Arnoux wishes to clarify comments posted on The Oil Drum-Australia/New Zealand (Part 1 at tail end of blog)
Part 1 Read More
Dr Louis Arnoux  in an interview with The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand The Oil Drum-Australia/New Zealand (Part 2)
Part 2 Read More Questions & Answers      

Mr Guy Nègre - Profile   Guy Nègre, Managing  Directeur, Moteur Development International s.a. (MDI) Inventor of the MDI Technology and Founder of the MDI Company, Guy Nègre is a 66 year old engineer who has over 100 engine patents to his name,

including 3 key patents co-owned with the French oil company ELF and 2 jointly with Institut Français du Pétrole (French Petroleum Institute).

Guy has created over 100 engines including Formula 1 and light aircraft engines. He is now world known for his compressed air engine and the new thermodynamic cycle he invented.

From 1970 to 1975 Guy worked with the RENAULT car manufacturer. From 1976 to 1983, he then managed the SACMA Company that produced aircraft engines (financed by the French Government). He then moved on to produce Formula 2 engines. From 1987 to 1991, this led him to manage the MGN Company focused on the design of Formula 1 engines. This is when he acquired international notoriety.

His work on Formula 1 engines led him to the concept of compressed air engines. In 1991 he incorporated MDI with the aim of designing clean and efficient engines. The initial pioneering work led to the first trials in 1992 of cars running on compressed air. Since then he has produced a series of compressed air engine models to arrive at the present designs that are being readied for commercial release late 2007 and early 2008.

Guy is also the inventor and developer of the MDI distributed manufacturing process for all applications of the MDI Technology that enables reducing vehicle manufacturing costs by 75%.

In early 1991 Mr Guy Nègre established MDI s.a., of Luxemburg and France, the sole purpose of which was to design and engineer clean and environmentally friendly engines for personal transport vehicles and for generating clean power.

Over the past 15 years Mr Nègre has refined and perfected his designs through many prototypes and enormous personal effort which has been well documented in many science journals and programs and as recently as 2005 and 2006 in Australia on Beyond Tomorrow.

Mr Nègre has now engineered his designs to a level where he is satisfied they are ready for sale and distribution worldwide.

This decision by Mr Nègre has seen the recent signing of a joint venture agreement between MDI and Tata Motors, India’s leading manufacturer of trucks and cars, to utilise Mr Nègre’s clean engine designs in the production of future Tata Motors vehicles. It is expected that in the near future Tata Motors will manufacture approximately 1 million vehicles per year utilising MDI clean engine technology once the production capacity has been built.

Mr Nègre and his joint venture partner Dr Louis Arnoux are now preparing to bring their technology and expertise to  New Zealand  & Australia to further establish and develop their business model that will then be used as a template for worldwide distribution.
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