Our Group provides cutting tools for various industries including aircraft manufacturing. It was founded in 1946 and has expanded over time to include design, manufacturing, regrinding, and tool management services across multiple sites in France. The company produces both standard cutting tools cataloged in their Desgranges and NeXam catalogs, as well as special custom tools designed for clients' unique needs. Regrinding services are also offered to extend the life of tools.

2. Content
Our Group.
Our Industrial Devices.
Our products.

3. Our
Group

4. History
Creation of the PIERRE DESGRANGES ANDREZIEUX COMPANY by
1946 Pierre DESGRANGES with his 2 sons in law.
Acquirement of the PIERRE DESGRANGES ANDREZIEUX COMPANY by
1995 the DESGRANGES HOLDING created by Eric MONNIOT and Hubert
FESSY.
Acquirement of the AFFUT’ RAPID COMPANY.
1998
2003 Creation of the DESGRANGES AERO COMPANY.
Registration of the brand NEXAM AIRCRAFT CUTTING TOOLS.
2005
DESGRANGES CUTTING TOOLS AIRBUS STRATEGIC SUPPLIER
2008
DESGRANGES CUTTING TOOLS 1st AIRBUS STRATEGIC SUPPLIER in
2011 France
RTM – Tool Management – Creation of SINERTOOL Company
Moving of Affut’Rapid at Desgranges Aero Facility

5. Structure
Desgranges Holding
Public Limited Company
Share Capital : 43.200 €
Shareholders : Hubert Fessy: 49,9%
Eric Monniot: 49,9%
Others: 0,2%
Limited Company Public Limited Company. Limited Company
Share Capital : 150.000 € Share Capital : 500.000 € Share Capital : 69.300 €
Shareholders : Shareholders : Shareholders :
Desgranges Holding: 100% Desgranges Holding: 99.9% Desgranges Holding: 100%
Others : 0.1%

6. Establishments
Andrézieux-Bouthéon
(42) – Rhône-Alpes.
Bonneuil Sur Marne
(94) – Ile de France.
Grisolles
(82) – Midi-Pyrénées.

7. Specialization
Design and Manufacturing of standard and special cutting tools.
Regrinding of standard and special cutting tools.
Regrinding and Modification of aircraft cutting tools.
Tool Management. SINERTOOL

8. Manpower 2010
52 employees
6 employees
73employees
15 employees
Production
70%
Commercial
11%
Quality Design office Management
3% 8% 8%

9. Turnover 2011
9.3 million €
72%
12%
16%

10. Industries
Aircraft
50.5%
Automotive
18.9%
Energy
10.1%
Distribution 14.2%
Machining
6.3%

11. Zoom on aeronautics
Aircraft manufacturers :
Sub-contractors & equipment manufacturers :
MRO Companies :

12. Our Industrial
Devices
Design
&
Manufacturing

13. Design
A design office of 5 employees organised in 2 sectors :
- machining.
- assembling.
DAO Autodesk AutoCAD.
CAO-FAO MISSLER TopSolid.
Tool simulator ANCA CIMulator 3D.
Cutting parameters software TOOL LIGHT.
Data base of all our designs and realizations.
AutoCAD

14. Manufacturing
Workshops with a total of more than 130 machines.
Buildings with a total of more than 3.500 m².
7 sectors : Raw material cutting
Turning
Milling
Grinding
Cutting - Regrinding
Marking

15. Manufacturing
Raw material cutting
1 metal cutting band saw CNC MISSLER DEB 340 CE.
2 automatic hack saws.
Turning
1 turning center 2 spindles CNC MAZAK.
1 lathe CNC SOMAB.
10 lathes.
5 relieving lathes.
Milling
1 machining center DMG DMU60T.
1 CNC 3 spindles milling machine FLUTEMASTER.
14 milling machines.

16. Manufacturing
Grinding
5 grinding machines CNC JUNKER et STUDER.
10 grinding machines.

17. Manufacturing
Cutting – Regrinding
16 regrinding machines CNC.
42 regrinding machines.
Marking
2 laser marking machines.
Marking devices.

18. Quality
1 CNC WALTER Helicheck.
1 CNC WALTER Toolcheck.
5 profile projectors.
3 control beds REIME.
1 surface roughness control machine MAHR SP6.
Control devices.
2nd French cutting tools manufacturer to be ISO 9000 certified.
ISO 9001 version 2000 certified.

19. Our
products

20. Our products
Standard products
Desgranges’s catalogue
Nexam’s catalogue
Special products
Special products design and manufacturing.
Regrinding.

21. Standard products - Desgranges’s catalogue
This range aim at all the companies wich realized machining.
The catalogue is organized in 3 parts:
Solid Carbide.
-End-mills for HSM (High Speed Machining).
-End-mills for general purpose.
-Saws.
-Reamers.
PCD & CBN.
-End-mills in PCD.
-End-mills in CBN.
High Speed Steels.
-End-mills for the roughing and the finishing cylindrical & Morse taper shank.
-Slot drills cylindrical & Morse taper shank .
-End-mills for the roughing and the finishing relieved bore.
-Side & Face milling cutters.
-Others milling cutters.
-Reamers and core drills.

22. Standard products - Desgranges’s catalogue
170
pages
3.350
items
Nowadays, this catalog is only available in French and in €.

23. Standard products - NeXam’s catalogue
This range aim at Aircraft Manufacturers and the MRO companies (Maintenance, Repair and
Overhaul). The catalogue is organized in 2 parts:
Machining.
-Sheet machining.
-Kevlar machining.
-Honeycomb machining.
Assembling.
-Drills.
-Drill countersink combinations.
-Deburing tools.
-Reamers.
-Piloted reamers.
-Reamer Countersink combinations.
-Counterbores & Back spotfacers.
-Countersinks.
-Hole saws.
-Rivet shaver cutters.
-Pilots.
-Adaptors.

24. Standard products – NeXam’s catalogue
A leaflet in English.
An electronic catalogue on CD-ROM (PDF).
Several languages expected.
Updates sent by mail.
The last version downloadable on the web.
www.nexam.aero
Nowadays, this catalog is only avialable in French and in English.

25. Special Products
Design and Manufacturing of special cutting tools.
90%
of the DESGRANGES OUTILS COUPANTS’s turnover
Mainly for the milling, drilling and the reaming.
Cutting tools in high speed steels (M2, M35, M42).
Cutting tools in high speed steels by powder metallurgy (ASP30, ASP60).
Cutting tools in solid carbide.
Cutting tools in carbide tipped.
Cutting tools in PCD and CBN tipped.
Cutting tools in Diamond bonded.

26. Special Products
A complete design
Only with the drawing of the piece to realize and its raw material, our design office can :
- create the optimal manufacturing range.
- design the most efficient cutting tools.
- recommend the minimum specifics of the machine to use.
Our design office can draw up a report containing the drawings, the cutting parameters, the machining
cost and as the case may be, the service life including the number of regrindings.
Our engineers can accompany the starting of the machining with our designed cutting tools.

27. Special Products
A comforting organization:
For all of our productions, we realize with Autocad the cutting tool drawings.
Upon request, we provide these drawings with your name (.dxf / .dwg / .pdf)
We assure a complete traceability.
Every step of the design and the manufacturing are written on a document wich is archived
thereafter.
Only with the manufacturing number marked on each cutting tool, we can give you all the
information about the manufacturing. (raw material certification, date of manufacturing, machine used,
name of the employee, process, …)
Our products can be delivered with a certificate of conformity signed by the controller.
Upon request, we can deliver too a certificate for each cutting tool delivered.

28. Regrinding
Affût’Rapid and Desgranges Aéro can offer you :
For the Desgranges cutting tools, to assure the same performance for a regrind cutting
tool than a new one thanks to the knowledge of all the manufacturing parameters.
Thus our group can offer you a global solution from the design and the manufacturing to the regrinding.
For all the other cutting tools, an applied regrinding with short delivery delays.
The cutting tools modification with very short delivery delays.
The manufacturing of special cutting tools in high speed steels and solid carbide,
for any quantities.
Like this, our Group can offer you 2 delivery delays:
-The « manufacturing delivery delay » for medium and large quantites.
-The « regrinding delivery delay » ( 1 day to a week).