Alsatian Company of Mechanical engineering

The Alsatian Société of mechanical engineering whose head office is with Mulhouse produced Locomotive S. But in the past, the SACM manufactured textile machinery, boilers, diesel engines, but also of the jacks, material of mines, textile material, cables, Téléscripteur S, and Arme S.

History

Andre Koechlin, after having produced textile machinery since 1826, opens an engineering department of engine with Mulhouse in 1839. The businesses will develop quickly and Koechlin amalgamates with the Workshops of Graffenstaden to create the Elsaessische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden (EMBG) . The annexation of the Alsace-Lorraine by Germany, in 1871, involves the fold of part of the production with Belfort and the creation of SACM in the years 1878 - 1879. In 1893, the railway electric traction starts to take a certain rise, the American General Electric joins the French Company Thomson-Houston. Passed the First World War, the electrifications become extensive. In 1928, Thomson-Houston amalgamates with part of the SACM to form a new company. It will be Alsthom (then called Alstom) corresponding to the contraction of Alsatian-THOMson.

The factory of Mulhouse knew strikes in 1936. Old the Fonderie closed its doors at the end of the Sixties; its waste lands rehabilitated in an extension of the Université of High-Alsace.

Alcatel: Alsatian from atomic constructions, telecommunications and electronics results indeed from the fusion of CIT (industrial Compagnie of telephone), subsidiary of CGE (general Compagnie of electricity) and of the department GRAFT (Nuclear energy telecommunications and electronics) of the SACM. This fusion gave rise to the CIT-Alcatel company. It is only then that the parent company, CGE, took the name of its subsidiary companies: Alcatel - Alsthom, before separating from Alsthom and becoming Alcatel.

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  • History of the EMBG (Elsaessische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden)

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