Learn About Beneteau Quality and Innovation
Every BENETEAU sailboat and powerboat on the water reflects the best efforts of the finest architects, designers, and craftsmen along with the highest quality materials and the latest innovations.
For over 130 years, BENETEAU has been searching for increasingly innovative solutions to develop high performing, robust and environmentally friendly boats for a wide public. Pioneers in the use and implementation of new materials, the R&D engineers and technicians work towards continuous progress and improvement. They develop technology that meets the increasing demands of design, practicality and quality.
It starts with the materials
Since the structure of boats is constantly subjected to external stresses, it is of huge strategical importance to have expertise in composites as well as their implementation. In often complicated assemblies, materials must have a number of intrinsic qualities and maintain them, to stand the test of time in very varied environments. The group has a laboratory that carries out in-depth tests to achieve irreproachable quality. BENETEAU has unique experience combined with own-developed structural engineering tools and this has made it a leader in this field. Excelling in the distribution of material, they can build boats that are both light and strong.
BENETEAU has a continuous quality improvement dynamic for its products and processes, with the goal of doing everything possible to guarantee their owners confidence and peace of mind.
Generations of men and women, with a love of wood and work well done, have succeeded each other at BENETEAU’s cabinetmaking workshop, for nearly 40 years. With modernity and rigor they have turned a craft-based organization into an industrial organization, while preserving the trade’s nobility and their broad expertise.
Tables and doors, companionway steps and furniture, fiddles and other decorative pieces are formed, stained and polished in the 27,000 m² cabinetmaking workshop, bestowing the interior of each boat with nobility and elegance.
Focussed on offering a wide choice to customers of the brand, BENETEAU’s cabinetmaking workshop has been reorganized in recent years to offer several different wood types by boat model and to develop new finishes (closed pore, open pore, high-gloss, lacquers, brushed words, soft touch, etc.) The workshop located in Vendée is well-known for its age-old know-how in the manufacture of plywood and solid woods, as well as in the making of molded wood, and it supplies the BENETEAU production sites, including the United States. Today it is the biggest cabinetmaking center in Europe.
With the aim of keeping control of its capacity to deliver boats complying with very strict quality standards, BENETEAU obtained ISO 9001 certification, in 2003, and this is reassessed successfully every year by an independent organization. This has meant that the development of new models, purchases, industrial manufacture and respecting deadlines have all been the subject of procedures and methodical inspection. Based on the principles of lean manufacturing, the continuous improvement approach is very pragmatic and involves all the company’s staff.