Turnover: 1.2 billion EUR (2023)

Country: France

  • ~€1 billion in sales by 2022
  • Testing, inspection and certification company expanding rapidly through external growth
  • j~13,000 employees
  • 130 branches in France
  • 170 training centers in France and abroad
  • 18 industrial test centers
  • Presence in over 50 countries covering Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean and Asia

News

Val-d'Oise: risk management specialist Apave opens an apprentice training center. 02/02/2024

  • The Apave Group has 14,000 employees.
  • Apave Group sales exceeded 1 billion euros in 2022.
  • The group organizes 415,000 training courses every year.
  • Candidates will be hired in one of Apave's 130 French branches.
  • The group plans to recruit 1,700 technicians and engineers in France this year.

Apave acquires Tecnatom France, a non-destructive testing nugget 22/12/2023

  • Tecnatom France, with ten employees and sales of €5 million, has just joined the Apave Group.
  • Tecnatom, the French subsidiary of the Spanish nuclear services company, was taken over by the American group Westinghouse in 2021
  • In Chalon-sur-Saône, Tecnatom France is equipped with an industrial tool that is unique in France in the field of non-destructive testing (NDT): a 15-meter-long "pool" containing the world's largest automatic immersion ultrasonic testing system.
  • A kind of ultrasound scanner for large parts or parts with complex geometries in the aerospace or nuclear industries.
  • These two sectors account for 60% and 30% of Apave's business respectively
  • NDT Metalscan is the new name of the company
  • Apave, a specialist in technical risk management, employs 13,000 people worldwide, has 130 branches in France and is expected to achieve sales of 1.2 billion euros in 2023.
  • Tecnatom France is Apave's sixteenth acquisition since the beginning of 2021

Inspection, certification: Apave changes category 16/03/2023

  • - Apave sales in 2021: 1 billion euros
  • - Sales growth in 2022: 9%
  • - Percentage of business generated outside France: 24
  • - In two years, 12 acquisitions (€150 million in additional sales and 2,000 experts)
  • - 400 million budget for acquisitions between 2021 and 2025
  • - Acquisition of a recognized nuclear energy operator in Slovenia
  • - Acquisition of an inspection and certification specialist based in Scandinavia
  • - Acquisition of a professional training player
  • - Exclusive negotiations with American ABS for its technical inspection activities
  • - Apave workforce in 2022: 13,000 people

Studies mentioning this company

The property diagnostics market - France

Other companies mentioned:

  • Acceo
  • Apave
  • Securitest France (SGS groupe)
  • SGS
  • Bureau Veritas BV
  • Socotec