Schneider-Creusot

Schneider et Compagnie, also known as Schneider-Creusot for its birthplace in the French town of Le Creusot, was a historic 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, which in 1980 was renamed Schneider SA and in 1999, after much restructuring, Schneider Electric.

In 1836, Adolphe Schneider and his brother Eugène Schneider bought iron-ore mines and forges at Le Creusot (Saône-et-Loire).

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

It was a competition for seaplanes, with a large and prestigious prize.

Building at 42, rue d'Anjou in Paris , built in 1899 on a design by Ernest-Paul Sanson , head office of Schneider et Compagnie from 1900 to the late 1940s; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] now head office of Banque Palatine
Eugène Schneider (1805–1875)
A Schneider-Creusot 030-T steam locomotive
Former manufacturing facility of Le Matériel Electrique Schneider-Westinghouse in Champagne-sur-Seine
Creusot steam hammer
Locomotive Schneider.030T