Refonte Paris, FR · Rev 2026.06.09

French defense reshoring

Bring it back.
Make it here.

We find the critical imported parts French defense cannot do without, and bring their production home to France.

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The problem

One missing part can stop everything.

A modern weapon system is thousands of components. A few of them are made by a single supplier outside Europe. They are cheap, obscure, and absent from every public report. If that one supplier stops, the system stops, and no qualified French source exists to replace it.

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78%

of EU defense acquisitions were made outside the EU between 2022 and 2023, 63% of them from the United States. Source European Commission, EDIS (2024)

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85%

of the French Ministry of Armed Forces' hardware spend goes to ten suppliers, all of them foreign. Source Assemblée Nationale report n°2617 (April 2026)

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2024

since April 2024, French law can compel manufacturers to hold strategic stocks of critical components. Source Code de la défense, art. L.1339-1

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What we do

We find it. We bring it back. We make it here.

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Find it.

We locate the single-source imported parts that put a system at risk, through field interviews and supply-chain analysis. Knowing which part is the hard part, and that is our method.

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Bring it back.

We own the design, the qualification, and a French source. We carry the slow certification work the manufacturers have no time for.

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Make it here.

We produce asset-light first, then build our own line in a southern-France town that lost its industry.

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Why now

The window is open.

Regulation01

Since 2024, French law requires defense manufacturers to secure strategic stocks of critical supplies. The demand is no longer optional.

Money02

Up to €800 billion is being mobilized for European defense (the EU's ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030 plan, 2025), and France's military budget is set to reach €64 billion a year by 2027. Dedicated non-dilutive funding exists for dual-use industrial SMEs.

Source EU ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030 (2025); France LPM 2024-2030
Sovereignty03

Europe has set targets to bring defense procurement back inside the EU. The political will matches the mission.

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MissionPhase 02 / the commune line
The mission

Sovereignty, and jobs where they left.

We do not only reshore a part. We put skilled industrial work back into a French commune that lost it.

Reshoring is the business. Reindustrializing a town is what we are building toward.

Refonte's founder in the uniform of the French operational reserve.
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The team

Built by people who know this terrain.

A founding team with experience across French defense strategy, the operational reserve, and industry.

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Oscar Bonnefon Cofounder

Defense-sector strategy experience, service in the French intelligence reserve, and a seat on a national defense-and-aerospace committee.

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Matheo Lepine Cofounder
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Get in touch

Let's talk.

We are looking for partners, advisors, and introductions across the French and European defense base.

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