Jeumont-Schneider

Jeumont-Schneider was a French electric and mechanical engineering group, founded in 1964.

History

Jeumont-Schneider was formed in 1964 through a merger of FACEJ (Forges et Ateliers de Construction Electriques de Jeumont) and Matériel Electrique S-W (Schneider-Westinghouse).[1][2]

The company had activities in electric motors and other power electrical equipment, industrial controls and automation, hydraulic pumps, and included equipment for the nuclear industry.[3]

In 1986, the company divested its loss-making railway traction activities to Alstom.[3] The group's telephony business, unsuccessful in comparison to Matra, was sold to Bosch in 1988.[2]

In 1992, the activities of Jeumont-Schneider Industrie relating to nuclear power were taken over by Framatome. Other activities of the group: Jeumont Schneider Industrie and the division Jeumont-Schneider Automation went into joint management by Framatome and Alstom-Alcatel; the division were renamed Jeumont Industrie and Jeumont Automation.[4][5]

References

  1. History www.jeumontelectric.com^
  2. Schneider Electric - 170 years of history Schneider Electric, March 2005, retrieved 2014-07-12^
  3. Jeumont Industrie Archives nationales du monde du travail, 1998^
  4. Creusot-Loire Schneider Electric, 17 February 1992^
  5. The French SNCF electric locomotive 1.5 KV BB 9291 Capitole from 1964 All PYRENEES · France, Spain, Andorra, 2020-09-22, retrieved 2025-04-18^