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16-559: The group was formed in 1970 as a result of Compagnie des ateliers et forges de la Loire (owned by Marine-Firminy) and Société des Forges et Ateliers du Creusot  [ fr ] (owned by Schneider ) merger. The Société des Forges et Ateliers du Creusot had absorbed the Société métallurgique d'Imphy in 1968. The enterprise developed what has become known as the Creusot-Loire Uddeholm (CLU) converter process, which

32-709: A NATO 7.62mm round at a distance of 10m. By February 2018, the organization had been rebaptized Industeel France and was then owned by ArcelorMittal . The French arm had been augmented by Industeel Belgium , which operated with 1200 employees in Charleroi . In November 2020, ArcelorMittal had decided to sell the unit. This French corporation or company article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Compagnie des forges et aci%C3%A9ries de la marine et d%27Hom%C3%A9court The Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la marine et d'Homécourt ('Company of Marine Forges and Steelworks and of Homécourt'; FAMH)

48-563: A steel crisis , and in 1974 French government nationalized the steel industry. Marine-Wendel was created by acquiring most of the industrial and commercial interests of the Lorraine company. Citations Sources Clavi%C3%A8res Clavières ( French pronunciation: [klavjɛʁ] ; Occitan : Clavèiras ) is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France . This Cantal geographical article

64-625: A great steam hammer with a 100-ton ram. He developed arms manufacture at Saint-Chamond, and also delivered large quantities of rails to major French railroad companies. In 1881 he founded the Forges du Boucau near Bayonne . The factory at Boucau in the Hautes-Pyrénées was created when the Midi rail network decided to replace its iron rails with steel. Between 1887 and 1890 he built huge workshops which, among other products, made most of

80-495: A holding company, to form the Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la Marine, Firminy et Saint Etienne. This became Marine-Firminy in 1968. That year SNCF Class A1AA1A 68000 production was over, and that signified the end of locomotive production of the company. In March 1970 the latter company merged with Société des forges et ateliers du Creusot  [ fr ] to form Creusot-Loire holding. 1973 oil embargo caused

96-477: The Compagnie des Forges et Aciéries de la Marine et Saint-Étienne . In 1954 the company became a holding company, combining its industrial operations with the Établissements Jacob Holtzer and Usine de la Loire des Aciéries et Forges de Firminy to create the Compagnie des Ateliers et Forges de la Loire (CAFL). The company went through further transformations in 1961 by merging with Firminy, which had also become

112-483: The Invar trademark. At some point, the organization may have been part of Usinor , which became in the 2001/2 restructuring the company known as Arcelor . Before September 2003, the organisation had been renamed Industeel and absorbed by Arcelor . In September 2015, Industeel was touting its homogeneous armour products and its ballistic protection steel plates. It boasted that 5mm of its MARS 600 product could stop

128-633: The first steam hammers at their works. Later they introduced innovations such as a mobile crane for moving large pieces around the works, and a hydraulic press. Starting in 1771 the Neyrand brothers became owners of several coal mines and ironworks in the valley of the Gier river . The company of Neyrand frères et Thiollière was formed in January 1845 to exploit an enlarged and modernized factory at Lorette . The partnership of Parent, Schaken, Goldsmid et Cie

144-547: The land turrets that armed the eastern fortresses of France, and provided turrets to various foreign powers, particularly Romania. The forges also produced train shields and marine turrets. In 1903 the company moved into the east and north when it acquired the assets of the Vezin-Aulnoye company, which included factories at Homécourt in Meurthe-et-Moselle and iron mines at Hautmont in the north. The name

160-406: The rest of his life. When he took office in 1874 the annual sales turnover was 20 million francs, and at the end of his tenure in 1908 it had risen to 80 million francs. He paid particular attention to the works at Saint-Chamond and Assailly, where he developed the special fabrications that brought fame to the factories. At Saint-Chamond he built a forge that could make 80-ton ingots, and he installed

176-495: The unfinished Normandie -class battleships. In 1932 the company purchased the Neyrand et Cie company with a plant at Onzion , Loire. The company went through major changes after World War II (1939-1945). In 1950 the properties in the east and north were transferred to the Lorraine company SIDELOR, and the company returned to its focus in the Loire region. In 1952 it merged with the Compagnie des Aciéries de Saint-Étienne to form

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192-722: Was a French industrial enterprise that made iron and steel products for the French navy, army, and railroads. It is often known as Saint-Chamond from its main location in Saint-Chamond, Loire . In 1815 James Jackson , a manufacturer from Birmingham , England, set a steelworks near Saint-Étienne at Trablaine. Jackson returned to England around 1823. His sons, naturalized Frenchmen, established an important steelworks at Assailly in 1830. In 1837 H. Pétin and J. M. Gaudet, mechanics and forgers, set up shops at Saint-Chamond and Rive-de-Gier . In 1841 Pétin et Gaudet introduced one of

208-493: Was changed to Compagnie des forges et aciéries de la Marine et d'Homécourt . During World War I (1914-1918) the company built several different types of weapons, notably the Saint Chamond-Mondragón 75 mm gun which had been designed mostly by colonel Rimailho, the Saint-Chamond tank and the deficient Chauchat machine rifle. They also produced naval guns, such as the quadruple gun turret design for

224-488: Was developed to minimize the need of argon, and which was first erected on an industrial scale in the 1970s at Degerfors . The group was affected by the 1970s steel crisis , and was not able to pay a dividend after 1977. In 1984 the organisation became bankrupt with debts of $ 633 million; the company's owner Empain-Schneider rejected state aid as the conditions included giving away control of another subsidiary Jeumont Industrie . At some point near 2000, Imphy SA owned

240-625: Was formed on 28 February 1854 to acquire and exploit the forges of the Vierzon company located at Vierzon , Clavières , Reblay, Bonneau and Courbançon. These four companies became one on 14 November 1854 when Jackson Frères and Pétin et Gaudet merged and combined with Neyrand-Thiollière, Bergeron et Cie of Lorette, and Parent, Schaken, Goldsmid et Cie of Paris . The new company was called the Compagnie des Hauts-fourneaux, forges et aciéries de la Marine et des chemins de fer . The company, which engaged in extracting, processing and selling iron and coal

256-629: Was initially based in Rive-de-Gier. On 9 November 1871 it moved its headquarters to Saint-Chamond and became a limited company. The factories were mainly concentrated in the Loire basin, in Saint-Chamond and Assailly. In 1874 the Company was struggling in a difficult economy. Pierre de Montgolfier-Verpilleux was named general director. Montgolfier remained head of the company for most of

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