METLEN: new contract with Naval Group for additional torpedo tubes – production stays in Greece

France’s Naval Group is giving METLEN yet another order. The Greek company announced on November 9 that its subsidiary M Technologies has signed a new contract for the manufacture and supply of additional torpedo tubes, components that Naval Group uses in the programmes it carries out for customers around the world.

As the company clarifies, production will take place in Greece, at M Technologies’ plants, which specialise in complex metal structures, certified welding and high-precision manufacturing for critical ship systems.

From the March memorandum to orders

The new assignment builds on the Memorandum of Cooperation between the two sides, signed on March 19, 2026 at M Technologies’ plant in Volos. That document opened the way to cooperation on both surface ships and submarines intended for international markets. With the torpedo tubes, the framework now acquires a concrete production subject.

The company speaks of a cooperation that now has a permanent character and brings ever more work to its defence hub in Volos (Defence Hub). As it adds, the fact that the French group chooses it again and again shows in practice that METLEN is regarded as a reliable industrial partner internationally.

The two groups already cooperate on the FDI frigate programme. In February 2026 METLEN announced that it had successfully delivered two complex platform systems intended for an FDI frigate of the French Navy, while at EURONAVAL Naval Group included it among its ten contracts with Greek companies, for the production of torpedo tubes in Volos. For the Greek part of the programme, the details are in our full analysis of the FDI HN frigates.

Jobs and exports

METLEN stresses that the contract increases the added value that stays in the country and strengthens the export character of the Greek defence industry. According to the company, it helps preserve highly specialised jobs, develop know-how and bring Greek production capabilities into international supply chains.

The contract was signed by Vasilis Tsiamis, Chief Executive Director of M Technologies, and Amandine Viala, Chief Procurement Officer of Naval Group. METLEN estimates the new assignment paves the way for the two companies to cooperate on other naval programmes in the future, which would mean an even greater workload for the Volos plants.