Akira Technologies

AKIRA is a specialist engineering company focused on designing and building energy-conversion systems and custom test benches. Its expertise brings together piston engines, turbomachinery, electric machines, and supporting subsystems such as auxiliary units and gearboxes. These capabilities serve a range of applications, including aerospace, marine, electric power generation, biofuels, renewable energy, and embedded systems.

The company also develops special-purpose machines and test facilities for research and development, production, and qualification. Its projects can cover components and processes involving bearings, lubricants, gears, fuels, combustion, traction and compression, and tribology. AKIRA undertakes research and technology projects across multiple sectors, taking work from preliminary studies through to the development of test-system demonstrators and proof-of-concept solutions. Its activities include hybridisation studies, high-performance solutions, and demonstrators.

For education, AKIRA offers WESTT-branded solutions, including real and virtual engine test benches, aviation learning stations, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul-related training resources. Based in Bayonne, France, the company works across both industrial engineering and aviation education.