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The French Metal Company is a French metallurgy industrial company which produced copper and then aluminum before blending in 1961 in Tréfimetals and then in 1967 in Péchiney.

The company comes from the Laveissière company, specializing in the foundries and copper rollers, which started in 1859 with establishments in Grenelle and Saint-Denis. At the same time, Belgian industrialists embarked on copper metallurgy with creation, in 1878 in Fromelennes-les-Givet [ first ] , of an “industrial metal society”, which in 1892 became a public limited company, merging with the company LAVISSIÈRE to transform into Industrial and commercial metals company , under the direction of Jules Measurement.

Entering the company the previous year in 1891, Georges Vésier became its president in 1895 [ 2 ] . It diversifies society towards other metals than copper, in particular aluminum, to learn from the corner’s failure on the copper of 1887 organized by the Rivale, the Société des Métaux, and launches the procedure consisting of Move provisions on the value of copper stocks. He is also a director of the Alais and Camargue chemicals company, who also develops aluminum production and will become Péchiney [ 3 ] .

The Industrial and commercial metals company is refounded in 1901 with a capital of 1 million francs, half of which belongs to the German MetallgeSellschaft. She was then renamed “French Metal Company”. She then employed 500 people [ 4 ] out of 30,000 m 2 in its factory in Saint-Denis.

The company increases its capital to 2.5 million francs then 4 million francs in 1913. On the Paris Stock Exchange, its action went from 737 to 848 francs between 1906 and 1913 [ 5 ] .

In addition to the historic sites of Givet (Ardennes) and Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), the company operates factories, Castelsarrazin (Tarn-et-Garonne), Déville-lès-Rouen (Seine-Maritime), serifontaine ( Oise), Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) and La Madeleine-les-Lille (North). After Georges Vésier, his boss was Georges Desbrières from 1938. Under the Occupation, the French Metal Company reached a market capitalization of 1.3 billion francs on the Paris Stock Exchange, because it is “prized by the Germans” [ 6 ] : its aluminum factories that have not been destroyed by war, they can produce military equipment.

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At the Liberation, she studied without pressing the operating projects of the iron deposit of Conakry, in Guinea, and becomes one of the shareholders of the CMC (Compagnie des Métaux de Conakry), up to 5% against 25% in the future BRGM [ 7 ] , after taking an option in the fall of 1946, for an exploitation that only started in 1953 [ 8 ] .

In 1961, the merger with the Société des Tréfileries et Laminoirs du Havre gave birth to Tréfimetals, which in 1967 went under the control of Péchiney which sold the company to the Italian group SMI Spa in 1987.

  1. ↑ Belgium between France and Germany, 1905-1914 – PLEAG 235, Dary Mar Marie Commune of Bitch – 1999 [first]
  2. ↑ [2]
  3. ↑ Historical dictionary of French bosses , by Hervé Joly, Danièle Fraboulet, Patrick Fridénson and Alain Chatriot [3]
  4. ↑ Fireplaces in the plain: a hundred years of industry in Saint-Denis around Christofle (1830-1930) , page 26, 1998 [4]
  5. ↑ Cordial distrust. Franco-Spanish relations at the end of XIX It is century at the First World War (Volume 3): Economic relations , Harmattan editions, 2011, page 252 [5]
  6. ↑ At the boot: the scholarship under the occupation , Page 60, a pair of Pauline destrible and dominique destroyed [6]
  7. ↑ Policy and finance across Europe XX It is century , page 283, by Robert Jablon, Laure Quennouëlle-Corre and Andre Straus [7]
  8. ↑ “Future of the mining industry in Guinea” [8]

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