Sy&Se SA (pronounced [saɪ] [ænd] [siː]) is a high-tech company specializing in assembling glasses with metals and ceramics – for all kinds of domains and applications.
Our History
Sy&Se was founded in 2017 as a spin-off company from an Innosuisse project between the Haute-Ecole Arc Ingénierie (HE-Arc, part of the HES-SO, the Universities of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland) and a world leading high-end watchmaking company.
The collaborative project was focussing on assembly technologies, an essential step in most industrial manufacturing processes as it contributes to obtaining high-performance and high-quality end products. A major scientific breakthrough during the project led to the development of the Impulse Current Bonding (ICB) technology, ultimately paving the way for the creation of Sy&Se.
In 2020, the company’s legal form evolved to become a public limited company (SA), with its own Board of Directors. To support its growth, the company moved early 2023 from La Chaux-de-Fonds to Saint-Blaise, near Neuchâtel, into more spacious premises tailored to its industrial activities.
Our Organisation
Board of Directors
Sébastien Brun, President
BSc in Micro-engineering from Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie (HE-Arc), Neuchâtel, Switzerland, where he was a research project manager. Its fields of activities were surface engineering and physico-chemical analysis of materials for biomedical and watchmaking industries.
Dr Peter Kupferschmied, Vice-President
MSc in Mech. Eng. and PhD in systems from ETH Zurich. More than 30 years in leading positions in industry and R&T, with a large international exposure. Board member of technology companies.
Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. Herbert Keppner, Prof. em. HE-Arc
PhD in solid-state physics. Expert in solar cells, and plasma technologies. More than 130 international publications in conference proceedings and journals, as well as 14 patents.
Prof. Jacques Jacot, Prof. hon. EPF Lausanne
Prof. em., instrumental in training generations of engineers in areas such as assembly techniques, product development and production methods, in close cooperation with the microtechnology and watchmaking industry.
Talents
The success of Sy&Se SA is based on its team, which brings together highly motivated talents in the various disciplines of its core business and support functions. In order to benefit from the best skills in adjacent fields, Sy&Se SA has a strong network of partners, suppliers and service providers, all recognised specialists in their field.