AF Compressors
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| Ateliers Francois SA | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1870 |
| Headquarters | Liège, Belgium |
| Website | www.afcompressors.com |
Ateliers Francoise SA is a worldwide operating company that manufactures high pressure oil free compressors with headquarters in Alleur (Liege), Belgium.
Ateliers Francois has production sites in Belgium, China and India. The company‘s research and development department is located at the university of Louvain La Neuve in Belgium.
AF has a constant partnership with the scientific associations Université de Liege and Université Catholique de Louvain.
Subsidiaries offer commercial and technical support at local distribution centers world wide with local technicians and service engineers.
Ateliers Francoise SA‘s customers are most renown blow moulder manufacturers, engineering offices, the mineral, spring and drinking water providers as well as the major soft drinks producers for juices, breweries, edible oil, milk, and all other existing PET applications, FOOD or Non Food industries.
Products / Technology
- high pressure compressors
- low pressure compressors
History
- 1870 – founded in Liège, Belgium for production of pneumatic hammers for tunneling in the local mining industry
- 1900 – manufacturing reciprocating compressors for the coal and steel industry
- 1960 – a range of oil free reciprocating compressors with PTFE piston rings developed for the brewing, chemical and food industries
- 1980 – with the emergence of the PET bottling industry, AF Compressors commits 100% of its resources to the PET industry
