Founded in 2014 as a merger of Furnaces Nuclear Applications Grenoble SAS (FNAG) and Thermique Industrie Vide SAS (TIV) specialized in furnaces for heat treatment, ALD France is actually a new company with a long history.
The forerunners DEGUSSA and ALD were suppliers of sintering furnaces for nuclear fuel.
Since its origin, ALD France has been delivering furnaces and transferring know-how for the sintering of nuclear fuel pellets since 1971.
- 2014
- Merger of FNAG and TIV into ALD France
- ALD France becomes member of IRT M2P Metz, a research institute in industrial metallurgy
- Acquisition of the ASPN patent from M.Georges by ALD VT
- They haven’t stopped to work on challenging projects ever since then
- 2015 - Moving to brand new building with 1200 m² offices, 2500m² workshop and laboratory
A look back at FNAG
Furnace Nuclear Application Grenoble, FNAG, was founded in 2008 out of the nuclear division of ALD-VT to work on the MOX USA project.
- 1850 - The family company, E. Leybold, is founded in Cologne
- 1851 - The family company, W. C. Heraeus, is formed in Hanau
- 1873 - The company Degussa is founded in Frankfurt
- 1961 - Merger of Leybold and Heraeus > Foundation of Leybold-Heraeus GmbH
- 1971 - First sintering furnaces for MOX and UO2 fuel pellets
- 1991 - Merger of Leybold and Degussa > Foundation of Leybold-Durferrit
- 1994 - Foundation of ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH by Leybold and Degussa
- 2006
- ALD-VT enters the engineering division of AMG
- Foundation of FNAG in Grenoble by ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH
- 2013 - Designing and manufacturing of the biggest vacuum furnace in the world for ITER
A look back at TIV
Thermique Industrie Vide, TIV, was created in 1994 by two technology maniacs, Claude Maiffret and Philippe Segovia, who decided to start a business for custom-designed heat-treatment furnaces.
They haven’t stopped to work on challenging projects ever since.
- 1994 - Foundation of TIV by Claude Maiffret and Philippe Segovia
- 1997
- TIV becomes a world specialist in zirconium annealing process
- Partnership between TIV and ALD on gas nitriding furnaces
- 2005 - First large scale annealing furnace, 28m long, with high vacuum up to 10-5 mbars for inconel 690 tube
- 2013 - Partnership with FNAG, to design and manufacture the biggest vacuum furnace in the world for ITER
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