Montbard

Framatome Montbard plant has produced more than 500 steam generator tube bundles for 130 nuclear power plants worldwide since 1974. Thanks to this experience, the factory can meet the most demanding specifications and provide solution for any type of design.

The facility is also manufacturing tubes for different types of heat exchangers of active or passive safety systems of nuclear power plants and working on solutions for Gen IV nuclear power plants as well as for Small Modular Reactor (SMR) programs.

Its 95,000 m² workshops area is located in Montbard, in the Burgundy region in France, a region that concentrates a strong expertise in mechanical industry for nuclear, including several factories of Framatome.

The plant processes hot extrusion tubes, that it is supplied with. The processing operations implemented on site include: cold rolling, degreasing, heat treatment, dressing, non-destructive testing, bending, finishing and testing.

Most of its production is intended for final customers outside Framatome.

The first production unit performs the first cold rolling, heat treatment and degreasing operations.

The second production unit performs a second cold rolling and heat treatment operation. Finishing and control operations (dressing, CND controls, vacuum heat treatment, bending, internal control through probes) are also carried out here as well as final products packing and shipping.