The Compagnie française des métaux (CFM) was a French metallurgy company founded in 1892 that acquired the assets of a predecessor that had gone into liquidation.

[3] In 1869 Pierre-Eugène Secrétan (1836–1899) bought a copper and brass mill in the village of Sérifontaine on the Epte river about 85 kilometres (53 mi) northwest of Paris.

[4] In 1873, at the request of the French government, Secrétan overhauled a mill to make brass sheets for cartridges at Castelsarrasin, near Toulouse.

In 1878 Secrétan bought the Givet copper and brass plant beside the Meuse river on the Belgian border, perhaps the largest such factory in France.

He was gambling on being able to corner the copper market, but demand did not rise as fast as he predicted and he did not account for new sources of supply or the potential of existing scrap.

[5] In 1894 Jacques Edouard Melon (1846–1899), was named director-general and consulting engineer of the Compagnie française des métaux.

[17] In 1930 the company charged Edmond Brion and Auguste Cadet with building a two-story branch in Fez, Morocco, with storage facilities, retail stores and offices on the ground floor and three apartments above.

[10] At the end of World War II the company found itself with low stocks, obsolete equipment and intense competition from abroad.

[21] In 1962 the Compagnie française des métaux merged with the Tréfileries et Laminoirs du Havre to form Tréfimétaux.

[23] The factory of the Compagnie française des Métaux at 72 rue de la Gare in Saint Denis has been rehabilitated and converted and still stood as of 2018.

The Société Thuillier, Dague et Cie bought a site along the avenue du Général Leclerc at the western entrance to Bar-sur-Aube in 1902, and created a small stamping workshop.

The Bogny-Braux foundry bought the factory during World War I, and around 1930 it was acquired by the Compagnie Française des métaux.

[25] The factory at Castelsarrasin, Tarn-et-Garonne, was built after the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71), and was privately owned until 1892, when it was acquired by the Paris-based Compagnie Française des Métaux.

During the war it was transformed into an armaments factory, with the buildings extended for more than 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) between the lateral canal of the Garonne and the Bordeaux-Sète railway.

[27] When World War II began the isolated location was again an advantage and the decommissioned workshop was reopened to supply the airforce and navy.

[32] The present Compagnie des Tubes de Normandie began to produce lead linings in 1729.

The plant specialized in making seamless steel tubes to meet the demand of the oil industry for transport of high-pressure fluids.

After a major investment the new 7 hectares (17 acres) factory restarted manufacturing in February 1959 making steel tubes from 33 to 273 millimetres (1.3 to 10.7 in) in diameter.

In 1878 the surviving brother, Edouard Estivant, sold his copper factories to Pierre Eugène Secretan, who combined them with his Société Métallurgique du cuivre.

The French President Raymond Poincaré visited Niederbruck on 12 February 1915 make Joseph Vogt a Knight of the Legion of Honour.

[39] After World War II the company became "Cuivre et Alliages", a subsidiary of the Cie Française des Métaux.

[37] As of 2018 the plant manufactured copper bars, flat surfaces and machined and shaped products, mainly for the electrical industry.

[36] Charles-Marie Prévost d'Arlincourt, general and baron of the empire, built the Saint-Victor factory at Sérifontaine during the July Monarchy.

[40] Eugène Secrétan incorporated the factory into his Société des Métaux and made important improvements.

[40] At the start of World War I it belonged to the new Compagnie Française des Métaux, a major listed company in Paris.