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).
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.
In 1986 the company divested its loss making railway traction activities to
Alstom
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.
The group's telephony business, unsuccessful in comparison to
Matra
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, was sold to
Bosch in 1988.
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''.
References
Engineering companies of France
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