UGINE INFRA foundation : specialising in industrial furnace manufacturing

First tests for low pressure carburising and gas quenching

Francis PELISSIER obtains controlling interests in ECM and ECM takes over INFRAFOURS.

The vertical ICBP is developed. First industrial order from the PSA Group.

First major order in China: SAC (Shenyang Aircraft)

Order of 5 furnaces for 240 kg photovoltaic silicon ingots for Photowatt

First horizontal ICBP for the PSA Group: a vacuum carburising furnace for gearbox mass production, including a 20 bar gas quenching system.

Foundation of ECM Beijing

The group develops thanks to significant orders from regular clients and to the implementation of a Photovoltaic R&D program in collaboration with CEA INES.

Foundation of ECM Kazakstan and JV Hephaes in China. Nearly 1,000 low pressure carburising cells in production worldwide.

More than 1,000 low pressure carburizing heating cells in worldwide.

Creation of a new induction furnace activity and Plinius order for induction furnace (3,000 ° C, 500kg) for CEA.

SEMCO Technologies joins the ECM Group. Thanks to its ECM Greentech subsidiary, the ECM Group becomes a French leader and worldwide actor in the photovoltaic industry, covering the whole value chain from ingots till high efficiency cells.