LA FONTE ARDENNAISE

Listed in a source registry

France INSEE Sirene / INPI RNE state register (annuaire-entreprises.data.gouv.fr)

What is established and what is not

No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 16 official records from 10 official sources are on file. 4 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. The manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.

Facts on file, each with its evidence type

• Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-20. Domain registry record
• First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The company website was already online in 1998. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-20. Internet Archive (Wayback)
• On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1958. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 2026-08-01. INSEE SIRENE (Registre national des entreprises)
• Operating permit for the production site (record type: operating-permit) [official record; status green] Shows an authority issued a permit for an installation at this site for the activity named in the record. A permit is not an inspection report and not an observation that production is running today. effective since 2026-07-23. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• An environmental inspector visited the plant, on the official record (record type: facility-inspected) [official record; status green] Inspected 2025-09-01. An inspector came to the site on that date, so the site existed then and was not only licensed on paper. The visit itself does not show what was being made there. checked 2026-10-13. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-08-16. OpenSanctions
• No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-08-16. OpenSanctions
• The inspection report describes the site: L’unité FA5 implantée à Vivier-au-Court (08440) appartient au groupe familial LA FONTE ARDENNAISE. Ce dernier est spécialisé dans divers secteurs d’activités : fonderie, usinage, traitement de surface, assemblage, injection plastique et outillage. Il possède une dizaine de sites de production, en France et à l'étranger. L’unité FA5 est une fonderie réalisant des pièces de fonte. (record type: facility-activity-described) [official record; status green] The inspection report describes the site: L’unité FA5 implantée à Vivier-au-Court (08440) appartient au groupe familial LA FONTE ARDENNAISE. Ce dernier est spécialisé dans divers secteurs d’activités : fonderie, usinage, traitement de surface, assemblage, injection plastique et outillage. Il possède une dizaine de sites de production, en France et à l'étranger. L’unité FA5 est une fonderie réalisant des pièces de fonte.. A state inspector wrote this after standing on the site, so it describes what the plant actually does, not what its own website claims. checked 2026-10-13. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• inspection-follow-up (record type: inspection-follow-up) [official record; status amber] Inspection 2025-09-01: 3 control points, 2 with follow-up: Confinement des eaux liées à un incendie: proposed Demande d'action corrective (request for corrective action), 1 mois; Bruit: proposed Demande d'action corrective (request for corrective action), 3 mois. The inspector checked each regulatory point and wrote down which ones need a follow-up. A request for documents is an open question, not a proven breach; the report does not say how it was resolved later. checked 2026-10-13. Georisques, French register of classified installations (ICPE)
• registry-activity (record type: registry-activity) [official record; status green] Activity code in the state register: NAF 24.51Z. Shows what the state itself says the company does, which you can compare with what it promises you. checked 2026-09-07. France INSEE Sirene state register (data.gouv.fr bulk file)
• Listed in the national industrial register as an industrial site (record type: industrial-site-registered) [official record; status green] The country's industrial register lists this company as holding a working industrial establishment, with its own registry number and activity code. A trading office does not get one. Open the source for the entry. effective since 2024-12-31. IREP, French register of pollutant releases and waste (declared by the operator)
• Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 6 directors on file. The register names the people who run the company, so there is someone answerable if something goes wrong. checked 2026-07-09. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
• financials-published (record type: financials-published) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2025: revenue €119.7M, profit -€1.7M. Lets you size the supplier against your own volume: the figure comes from accounts filed with the state, not from a claim on a website. effective since 2025-12-31. INPI/BCE published accounts (data.economie.gouv.fr)
• Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. effective since 2026-07-04. Annuaire des Entreprises (INSEE / INPI)
• Street address on file in the state register (record type: registered-address) [official record; status green] The address the company itself gave the register, so post and inspectors reach it there. checked 2026-08-10. INSEE Sirene (annuaire-entreprises)
• Site address listed in a government regulator's register (record type: facility-registered) [official record; status green] Shows the regulator records a site of this company at a named address. A registration is not an observation of current production. checked 2026-09-07. European Industrial Emissions Portal (E-PRTR / IED), European Environment Agency
• Workforce size in the company register (record type: workforce-on-record) [official record; status green] Between 500 and 999 employees on the state record. Tells you whether the supplier can realistically take on your volume. effective since 2026-07-01. INSEE SIRENE (Registre national des entreprises)
• Legally registered and still active (record type: registry-active-global) [official record; status green] Indicates the company is not dissolved or winding down. checked 2026-09-07. France INSEE Sirene state register (data.gouv.fr bulk file)
• EU VAT number valid for cross-border trade (record type: vat-valid) [official record; status green] The number is registered and active: we asked the EU VIES service and it answered yes. An invalid VAT number is the first sign an invoice comes from the wrong company. checked 2026-08-23. VIES (European Commission)
• Registered business units on file (record type: registered-units) [official record; status green] 6 active business units of 8 on the register, 5 with a manufacturing activity code. The register lists how many sites the company runs. effective since 2026-10-01. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)

Registered business units

6 active and 2 closed units in INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement); 5 active units carry a manufacturing activity code (section C of the activity classification). The activity code is what the register records for each site, not a finding that goods are made there.

• 22 RUE JOLIOT CURIE 08440 VIVIER-AU-COURT: SIRET 78582050700016, active, head office, manufacturing activity code 24.51Z (Fonderie de fonte), staff 100-199 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 9 RUE PIERRE VIENOT 08330 VRIGNE AUX BOIS: SIRET 78582050700024, active, manufacturing activity code 25.62B (Mécanique industrielle), staff 100-199 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• RD 8051 08170 HAYBES: SIRET 78582050700040, active, manufacturing activity code 24.51Z (Fonderie de fonte), opened 1984-04-03, staff 50-99 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 11 RUE JOLIOT CURIE 08440 VIVIER-AU-COURT: SIRET 78582050700065, active, manufacturing activity code 24.51Z (Fonderie de fonte), opened 1990-04-01, staff 100-199 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• LIEUDIT LA ROBINE RUE TERRE LA TOUR 08440 VIVIER-AU-COURT: SIRET 78582050700081, active, manufacturing activity code 27.52Z (Fabrication d'appareils ménagers non électriques), opened 1998-06-01, staff 20-49 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 26B RUE JOLIOT CURIE 08440 VIVIER-AU-COURT: SIRET 78582050700099, active, trade activity code 46.18Z (Intermédiaires spécialisés dans le commerce d'autres produits spécifiques), opened 1998-06-01, staff 20-49 (2024). INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 9B RUE PIERRE VIENOT 08330 VRIGNE AUX BOIS: SIRET 78582050700057, closed 1998-12-31, manufacturing activity code 28.5D, opened 1989-09-01. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)
• 19 RUE JOLIOT CURIE 08440 VIVIER-AU-COURT: SIRET 78582050700073, closed 1998-06-01, activity code 74.2C, opened 1991-08-01. INSEE Sirene (StockEtablissement)

Check independently

• Sanctions and watchlists (OpenSanctions)
• VAT number check (EU VIES)