Corys was created in 1997 following the acquisition of the assets of Tractebel Engineering and Technicatome. The company is currently collaborating with Tractebel and Siemens on a project of eight driving simulators for the operators training of the Russian-designed VVER 440MW nuclear power plants in several Eastern European countries. In 1998, Corys TESS opened a subsidiary Corys TESS Inc. in Chicago to develop the US market, including a simulator for Amtrak's high speedAcela trains. In 1999, while it still remained primarily focused in the energy field, the company won several railway industry contracts in the United States and Australia. In 2007, it created a Beijing subsidiary called BKRT to develop a verification and validation simulator for the Ling Ao II power plant in Shenzhen. In 2008, Ralf Gathmann became the new Managing Director of the firm. In the same year, the firm bought our and merged Thunder Simulation Inc. with Corys TESS Inc. in Chicago to form Corys Thunder Incorporation. In 2009, Tractebel Engineering withdrew from the firm, with Areva and EDF becoming the shareholders of Corys, holding 66% and 34% of the capital of the Grenoble-based company. Following this change of shareholders, the firm changed its status and became a simplified joint-stock company.
Products
The company has three business lines: energy, transportation and the hydrocarbon industry.
Energy
Corys provides training and engineering simulators for nuclear power plants, power plants, power grids, etc. It designs, renovates and maintains i simulators, and provides provide training programs. The company is also involved in engineering activities for nuclear construction projects, in the design, testing and commissioning phases. It also develops of simulators for construction plants such as the Flamanville in France or the Taishan in China. By 2016, Corys had already delivered more than 180 power plant simulators and maintained more than 100 full-scale nuclear power plant simulators in the United States and France in operational conditions.
Transport
Corys manufactures rail driving simulators for cargo trains, TGV, highways, trams, and subway trains. They produce simulators that represent the various rolling stock with computer-generated images designed with the Matrix 3D engine.
The activity of Corys is organized between the parent company and its subsidiaries. Corys Inc. handles North American customers for transportation, energy and hydrocarbons, while HyperionRSI Simulation is dedicated to the hydrocarbon industry.
