Société Anonyme des Ateliers de Sécheron

The Société Anonyme des Ateliers de Sécheron ( SAAS ) was a manufacturer of electrical engineering in Geneva, he rose to 1988 in FIG. The name refers to the location, a city district in Geneva.

The company introduced oxygen welding equipment, electrodes and mercury vapor rectifier ago. In addition, it supplied the electrical equipment of hydroelectric power plants, built locomotives as well as devices for regulating the speed of trains, subways, trams and trolleybuses.

The SAAS was in 1918 from the merger of A. & de Meuron Cuénod SA ( founded in 1882 ), the Cuénod, Sautter & Cie. (founded 1887) and the jr. de l'industrie électrique (founded in 1891) shows. Purpose of the company was to work on the electrification of the railway network.

In 1919 was Brown Boveri & Cie ( BBC ), the main shareholder of SAAS. Five years later, the SAAS was independent and remained so until 1970, when the BBC was again the sole shareholder. The name was changed in 1982 but only BBC Sécheron AG. Finally merged in 1988 the BBC with the Swedish company ASEA to form ABB Group. However, the new entity separated from the production sector, which is related to the traction. This decision was the creation of a new independent company result, which began in this area again, the Sécheron AG. The ABB Sécheron AG in turn followed the transformer manufacturing. In 1992, ABB Sécheron moved and let the Sécheron AG original location, occupy alone.

There is no known reference to body work de Sécheron, a 1936-1967 active manufacturer of constructions for cars and commercial vehicles.