Cirtes history begins in Nancy, mid-1980s, when Claude Barlier carried out a research and filed out his first patents of two innovating technologies developed by him: the Actarus® Machining Surveillance process and the Stratoconception® Additive Manufacturing (Rapid Prototyping) process.
In November 1991, Claude Barlier created CIRTES in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in order to develop his patented research work. The project is awarded with the label and the support of the European program STRIDE, led by ANVAR.