Schneider et Cie, also known as Schneider-Creusot for its birthplace in the French town of Le Creusot, was a historic French iron and steel-mill company which became a major arms manufacturer. In the 1960s, it was taken over by the Belgian Empain group and merged with it in 1969 to form

Empain-Schneider Empain-Schneider was a Franco-Belgian industrial group formed in the 1960s from the merger of Belgium's Empain group and France's Schneider & Cie. In 1980 it was renamed Schneider SA. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the group was comprehensively res ...

, which in 1980 was renamed Schneider SA and in 1999, after much restructuring, Schneider Electric.

Origins

In 1836, Adolphe Schneider and his brother Eugène Schneider bought iron-ore mines and forges around Le Creusot (

Saône-et-Loire Saône-et-Loire (; Arpitan: ''Sona-et-Lêre'') is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in France. It is named after the rivers Saône and Loire, between which it lies, in the country's central-eastern part. Saône-et-Loire is Bo ...

). They developed a business dealing in steel, railways, armaments, and shipbuilding. The

Creusot steam hammer The Creusot steam hammer is a giant steam hammer built in 1877 by Schneider and Co. in the French industrial town of Le Creusot. With the ability to deliver a blow of up to 100 tons, the Creusot hammer was the most powerful in the world until 18 ...

was built in 1877. Somua, a subsidiary located near Paris, made machinery and vehicles, including the SOMUA S35 tank.

Armaments

Vehicles

Schneider CA1 The Schneider CA 1 (originally named the Schneider CA) was the first French tank, developed during the First World War. The Schneider was inspired by the need to overcome the stalemate of trench warfare which on the Western Front prevailed durin ...

, the first French tank *''Ferré'', a 46-meter long submarine *Schneider-Creusot 030-T steam locomotive * Schneider Coast Defense Train

Mountain guns

75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 The 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 ( el, πυροβόλο Σνάιντερ-Δαγκλή) was a Greek-designed and French-manufactured mountain gun. The invention of a mountain gun that could easily be broken down to pieces for transport, and ...

(named after Panagiotis Danglis) * Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1919 Schneider * Canon de 75 M(montagne) modele 1928 * 76 mm mountain gun modèle 1909

Other artillery

* Canet guns * Canon de 75 modèle 1897 * Canon de 75 modèle 1912 Schneider *

Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider The Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider was a light field gun used by the French Army of World War I. It was created by modifying an export-model field gun built by Schneider et Cie at Le Creusot to fire shells from the family of 75mm artillery am ...

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* Canon de 85 modèle 1927 Schneider * Canon de 105 modèle 1930 Schneider * 107 mm gun modèle 1910 *

120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun 120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun was a heavy artillery piece manufactured by the French company Schneider-Creusot. It was a slow firing gun without a recoil mechanism but with significant range and weight of the shell. Serbia ordered 17 ...

* 122 mm howitzer modèle 1910 * 152 mm howitzer modèle 1909 * 152 mm howitzer modèle 1910 * 152 mm siege gun modèle 1910 *

155 mm Creusot Long Tom The 155 mm Creusot ''Long Tom'' was a French siege gun (artillery piece) manufactured by Schneider et Cie in Le Creusot, France and used by the Boers in the Second Boer War as field guns. Four guns, along with 4,000 common shells, 4,000 shra ...

* Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider * Canon de 194 mle GPF * Canon de 220 L mle 1917 * Mortier de 220 modèle 1915/1916 Schneider * Mortier de 280 modèle 1914 Schneider

Schneider Trophy

Starting in 1911, Jacques Schneider offered the Schneider Trophy. It was a competition for seaplanes, with a large and prestigious prize.

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Lokomotive Schneider Creusot 1870
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