Schneider-Creusot
FRENCH STEEL-MAKING, ARMAMENTS AND LOCOMOTIVE MANUFACTURER
Schneider & Co.; Schneider & Cie; Schneider et Cie; Schneider and Co.; Schneider et Cie.; Ateliers de Creusot
Schneider et Cie, also known as Schneider-Creusot for its birthplace in the French town of Le Creusot, was a historic French 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.