A world of piezoelectric actuators Long caption: Cedrat Technologies is a high technology French SME company and specialists in innovative solutions for micro positioning and vibration damping with piezoelectric actuators. The company commenced operating in this field back in 1989 by carrying out research and development into piezo electric actuators. In 1995, Cedrat Technologis began the development of piezo active actuators for the French Space Agency (CNES) for vibration damping of optics in satellites. For ESA, the company produced the XYZ piezo scanning mechanism for Rosette MIDAS instrument.