• ALD France headquarters building

    ALD France

    Specialized in designing and manufacturing heat treatment furnaces for high tech and nuclear industries.

ALD France


ALD France was recently founded although it does have a long history and great experience in heat treatment vacuum equipment and nuclear applications.

ALD France represents the merging of 2 companies, FNAG and TIV, both from Grenoble, and manufacturers of industrial furnaces.

We benefit from the long term experience of Degussa, one of the first manufacturers of MOX sintering furnaces, and from the leading position of our parent company ALD Vacuum Technologies GmbH in the vacuum heat treatment market.

ALD France is Member of AMG, Advanced Metallurgical Group NV, located in the Netherlands, a public listed company with leading market position and interesting growth potential.


Activity of ALD France

Our Company offers highly engineered products and furnace systems, designed for high tech industries, research institutes as well as the nuclear industry.
Being a market leader in sintering furnaces, we also design and manufacture a wide range of other types of furnaces.Our leadership position is further enhanced through our high product quality and customer service.
We have strong position as a global worldwide supplier.
One of the most important things in our activity are the safety standards. ALD France equipment meets the highest standards in terms of security.

  • Nitriding
    • ALD France has been appointed by AMG-ALD as the group specialist for material nitriding processes and solutions. ALD France offers a wide range of standard gas and plasma vacuum furnaces for the industry , backed by a fine team of high-level specialists as well as a well-equipped metallurgy laboratory.
  • Nuclear
    • ALD France is a worldwide expert for furnaces in nuclear applications. We offer innovative solutions for the waste management and recycling of metal parts coming from dismantling of NPPs. The culture of nuclear safety, implementa­tion design, manufacturing, codes and application of stringent quality standards of our industry are part of the DNA of ALD France.
  • Other heat treatments
    • ALD France offers standard, innovative and customized heat treatment solutions for materials, thermochemical processes, industries and laboratories. Since we have an overall control of our in-house production chain from designing to refurbishing, we have a real ability to transform customized innovations into automated reliable and permanent processes for achieving your optimal owner­ship cost.
  • Services
    • ALD France provides support and services to customers world-wide and is available for the development of nitriding processes, in-depth metallurgical R&D, as well as technical and economical feasibility studies of customer projects for furnaces, for the industry or for nuclear activities. ALD France will also provide servicing and maintenance for the very large base of furnaces installed since 1994.

Key people

Serge Bertrand
Managing Director


Dr. Johannes Fachinger
Director of R&D