Société de Construction des Batignolles
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The Société de Construction des Batignolles was a civil engineering company of France created in 1871 as a public limited company from the 1846 limited partnership of Ernest Gouin et Cie.. Initially founded to construct locomotives, the company produced the first iron bridge in France, and moved away from mechanical to civil engineering projects in France, North Africa, Europe, and in East Asia and South America.
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Industry | Civil engineering |
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Predecessor | Ernest Goüin et Cie. (1846) |
Successor | Spie Batignolles (1968) |
Key people | Ernest Goüin and family |
Products | Railway construction, bridges |
Subsidiaries | Compagnie générale de construction de locomotives (Batignolles-Châtillon) |
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In 1968 the company merged with the electrical engineering company SPIE to form Spie Batignolles. After being briefly owned by the AMEC group (2003) the civil engineering construction activities were split and sold. As of 2011, Spie Batignolles SA is the effective successor of the company.[1]