Committee of the forging mills

The Comité of the forging mills was created in 1864 by the main of the forging mills like organization of study and defense of the professional interests of the large industrialists of the Sidérurgie. This Committee was reorganized in 1887 - 1888 and played a paramount role in the collective organization of the French iron and steel industry, in particular by the fixing of quotas of the production and the sharing of markets.

The Committee was dissolves by the Vichy government in 1940 and replaced by the Steering Committee of the iron and steel industry. The Employers' federation of the French iron and steel industry succeeded to him in 1945.

The Committee of the forging mills, gathering powerful men having important means, had a great influence on the public life.

Iconography

the French federation of steel preserves a table of Adolphe Déchenaud gone back to 1914, representing the Comité of the forging mills . It was lent to the exposure the house of Wendel, three centuries of industry in Lorraine organized with the museum of Orsay in 2004-2005, then presented to Hayange, this work representing a score of ironmasters was reproduced in the newspaper Le Monde of October 10th, 2007, article of Claire Guélaud the heart of steel of employers , (origin of photography: the agency Roger-Purple).

Presidents

François of Wendel: 1918-1940

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