Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Forging companies based in France
RevenueBase identified 112 forging companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 1,583 professional contacts across them, including 277 with verified work emails. Les Hautes-Rivieres is the largest hub.
This list covers forging companies headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest forging companies based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With over 100 years of experience, Setforge, a subsidiary of Farinia Group, is one of the most important world suppliers of forged components.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ascoval is a steelmaking plant that produces continuous cast rounds bars (“CCR”) in various diameters (from Ø180 to Ø325 mm) in carbon and alloy steel (up to 13% Cr).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les ateliers de fonderie d’art et fonderie de précision Solyfonte sont réputés pour leur savoir faire, leur professionnalisme et leur qualité de prestation depuis plus de 20 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Supplier and stockist of flanges since 1971, LOIRE INDUSTRIE succeede d in varying its activity thanks to the boosted dynamic due to the takeover by the AIR Group and ranks now as…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “https://bit.ly/canva-mps-english MANQUILLET PARIZEL (MPS), with 80 employees in France, has a turnover of 17.8 M€ and is producing forged parts, especially dedicated to railway…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis sa création en 1984, Nowak met sa passion de la fonderie à la cire perdue au service de ses clients en France et à travers le monde.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SBS Forge trouve ses racines en 1889 dans le Forez, lorsque les ingénieurs Jean-Marie Moizieux et Louis Gauchon créent et développent l’industrie métallurgique locale pour devenir…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'usine ArcelorMittal de Gandrange est située dans la région Lorraine, dans le nord-est de la France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 175 ans dont près de 80 installés au cœur de Sablé sur Sarthe, des générations de fondeurs fiers, courageux et innovants ont développé un savoir faire unique, unanimement…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “PRECIFORGE is a key producer in precision forgings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Stevenin Nollevaux is a company based in northern France and specialised in the conception and production of forged and machined components from 50 gr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Groupe familial industriel – Expert en frappe à froid depuis 1915 AFF Groupe fabrique en France des éléments de fixation et pièces métalliques pour de nombreux secteurs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Entreprise indépendante et familiale créée il y a plus de 50 ans, le GROUPE CLISSON comprend aujourd'hui 220 salariés et est composé de 4 entreprises dont les activités sont…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “UNT, your partner for the forming and machining of high precision components.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Plus de 50 ans d'expérience dans la production de petites et moyennes séries : visserie matriçée et pièces usinées pour l'aéronautique, l'espace et la défense.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DON FOSTER, située à Seuillet dans le 03 emploi 43 collaborateurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our expertise lies in hot forging and the machining of copper and brass.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “More than a century old and located in the heart of the Ardennes forests, the COLIN MILAS company is known and recognized as a specialist in the manufacture of lifting rings and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FORGEAGE LIBRE Nous forgeons tous types de pièces : De 2 kg à 3,5 tonnes, les Forges d’Albert réalisent des galets pleins et percés, arbres, couronnes, blocs, barres rondes et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NDC FOUNDRY is a foundry company based RUE DU CANAL DES SOEURS, 17300 ROCHEFORT, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sifcor is an automotive company, providing forging parts to the main car manufacturers and major OEMs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La SOCIETE DES FORGES DE FRONCLES est une entreprise créée en 1823 et qui est spécialisée dans la réalisation de pièces par forgeage à froid pour l’automobile, le BTP et…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Implantée à Nantes depuis 1929, la Fonderie DEJOIE perpétue un savoir-faire industriel reconnu depuis près de 100 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Découpe et négoce d'aciers inoxydables et alliages de nickel Depuis plus de 60 ans, Détail Inox est un acteur national de la découpe d’aciers inoxydables, réfractaires, duplex…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: forging companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names forging companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of forging companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name forging companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Forging companies based in France at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 112 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among forging companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “forging companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names forging companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among forging companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 277 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names forging companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many forging companies are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 112 forging companies headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Setforge, headquartered in Lhorme, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most forging companies?
Les Hautes-Rivieres leads with 4 headquartered companies, followed by Bessieres (2) and Cluses (2).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 277 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 112 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.