History

Batignolles Nantes Atelier G

1918 The Nantes factory is built by a private company named “Locomotives Batignolles-Chatillon” (L.B.C.).

1950 The factory produced its first heat exchangers for the petrochemical industries and oil refineries.

1958 The 1st process air-cooled heat exchanger is manufactured in the factory.

1985 GEA takes over Batignolles factory located in Nantes FRANCE and creates Batignolles Technologies Thermiques SA. The company became within 5 years a major player on the global market for API 661 Air-cooled Heat Exchangers.

1980s – 1990s GEA Batignolles Technologies Thermiques became the main partner of Japanese, European and American EPC contractors for the new markets of emerging countries in Middle East and South Eastern Asia. GEA Batignolles Technologies Thermiques developed Air-cooled Vacuum Steam Condensers for oil and gas applications.

2006 GEA Batignolles Technologies Thermiques opens, in addition to its French site, two subsidiaries in Qatar and China, becoming a worldwide leader for process air-cooled heat exchangers market. It also develops the field services, through the creation of GEA Airflow Services, a subsidiary dedicated to performance and reliability improvements.

2007 The Fintubes and Headers manufacturing improves its capabilities with the latest welding and machining technologies, NDT testing, bar coding systems. The company is running under SAP.

2010 GEA Batignolles Technologies Thermiques opens a new workshop and inaugurates its new headquarters

2011 GEA Batignolles Technologies Thermiques is a global leader in the field of air cooled heat exchangers for oil & gas, petrochemical, power & energy applications, supplying major industrial customers throughout the world.

It delivers more than 2500 bundles of process air-coolers from its 3 factories: Nantes in France, Changshu in China and Doha in Qatar. GEA Batignolles Technologies Thermiques is the lead unit of the AFC single tube and ACC business units of GEA Heat Exchangers segment.

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