PYROTECHNIC SYSTEMS AND SERVICES

Etienne Lacroix combines activities in developing pyrotechnics for defense and law enforcement applications and for manufacturers at the following companies :

-Etienne Lacroix Tous Artifices located in Mazères in Southwestern France

-SAE Alsetex located in Précigné in Western France.

  • Provide services spanning from product design to meet customer specifications to product dismantling
Etienne Lacroix offers a complete range of services for each stage of pyrotechnic products :
 
  • INNOVATION, DOABILITY ANALYSIS, PROTOTYPING, & EXPERIMENTING to create exceptional value through using the most advanced pyrotechnologies ;

  • CONCEPTION, DEVELOPMENT, MANUFACTURING & QUALIFICATION in conformance with the highest standards of the field, with national and international regulations (FRANCE/MINDEF/DGA/NATO, EC, ..), and with ecodesign standards through a lean development process ;

  • STORAGE, REPACKAGING, AUTHORIZATION, RE-MARKING & DELIVERY of any quantity, anywhere, to provide a tailored solution for external logistics of pyrotechnic products ;

  • INSTALLATION, MAINTENANCE, REFURBISHING, TRAINING & EXPERTISE concerning pyrotechnic products in use ;

  • REMOVAL, DISMANTLING & DEMILITARISATION of all of Lacroix Defense and Security’s products as well as of all types of pyrotechnics, munitions and components, explosives, pyrotechnic compositions or propellants, and including, cartridges, grenades, signals, mortars, missiles, rockets, mines and bombs.
 
Etienne Lacroix is backed by over a hundred engineers and technicians as well as a large network of partners, scientists and technicians. Our significant storage capacity and transport means ensure a full service solution to external pyrotechnic logistics.
  • Components, pyrotechnics, munitions and pyrotechnical systems

Lacroix Defense and Security provides hundreds of products to meet customers’s special requirements in the following fields :

  • SELF-PROTECTION : launcher/munitions systems and pyrotechnics for the protection of fixed platforms (strategic locations) and mobile platforms (land vehicules, aircraft, ships) against human or guided threats.

  • PYROTECHNICS : a wide range of grenades providing all types of effects (bursts, shock, blast, blinding, deafening, smoke, multiple), signalling (illuminating, sound, smoke, multiple) illuminating (visible, infrared, fixed position, launched, etc..). 

  • TRAINING systems : among command and control systems with a wide range of targets (fixed, mobile, infrared, etc..) and non toxic and realistic pyrotechnic simulations (shots, crackling or whistling salvos, smoke, NRBC, etc..)

  • PYROTECHNIC COMPONENTS : highly dependable and durable initiators, delay devices, actuators (valves, cutters, pushers, retractors, actuator, release mechanisms, etc..), sequencers (rockets, etc..) and gas generators able to withstand harsh environments………

  • LAW ENFORCEMENT/PEACEKEEPING : a full range of launchers, munitions, grenades and sprays of varied calibers with non-lethal effects (tear gas, pepper, blast, kinetic, stun, etc..) to be used by individuals transported on operational, fixed or remote controlled vehicles for the protection of permanent or temporary, land or maritime ….… in carrying out services/operations of private security or to maintain or re-establish public order..

  • CIVIL SAFETY AND PROTECTION : varied product ranges to prevent natural disasters (hail, avalanche, bird, phytosanitary, etc..) to protect individuals and property, for transport saftey (air, sea, land) and for oil exploration.

Etienne Lacroix provides a broad range of components, pyrotechnics, munitions and pyrotechnic systems.


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Facilities

  • Seveso 2 high threshold
  • 240 hectares
  • 1100 hectare protective perimeter (a Technological Risk Prevention Plan is in effect)
  • 28 workshops (pyrotechnic, assembly, mechanical machining and testing equipment)
  • 1 tunnel and 1 High Speed track to carry out measurements
  • 29 depots and shops
  • 300 ton storage capacity of pyrotechnic compounds
  • 1 firing range


Facilities

  • Seveso 2 high threshold
  • 300 hectares
  • 1100 hectare protective perimeter
  • 37 workshops (pyrotechnic, assembly, mechanical machining and testing equipment)
  • 36 depots and shops
  • 250 ton storage capacity of pyrotechnic compounds (higher capacity permitted)
  • 3 firing ranges

 


 

C
OMPANY HISTORY

1848

Lacroix was founded by Etienne Lacroix as a fireworks manufacturer in Toulouse located in Sang de Serp street. This family-owned company had over thirty employees.

1871

The company manufactured metallic signal flares for the war effort.

1889

Etienne Lacroix, in conjunction with Jean-Marie Rixems, register a patent for an explosive charge that left a colour-coordinated mark on the ground for the French Railway.
18 February 1888 : Patent registered for hail prevention flares.

1940-46 Factory is closed during WWII.

1945

Roger Barès, a young officer who had just married Monique Lacroix, joins the company and later becomes Manager. He divzersifies the company’s activities to serve National Security.

1953

A research department was established to develop its own proprietary products, and in particular, pyrotechnic decoys to protect ships and aircraft. Etienne lacroix equipped over 40 army forces.

1959

The Toulouse manufacturing facility was transferred to the Joffrey industrial park in Muret, spreading over 33 hectares.

1993
Pyrotechnologies, a new commercial activity, was set up to develop and commercialize to manufacturers pyrotechnic applications for distress signals, railway signals, hail prevention devices, obscurants, antil-intrusion systems, and avalanche initiation systems.

1997
Roger Barès passed away and Ruggieri is bought out. Lacroix-Ruggieri becomes the leader in the French market (or the leading European creator of pyrotechnic shows – better for the English version).

1999
Acquisition of the countermeasures division of the “Société Nationale des Poudres et Explosifs” (a French public-sector company specialised in the manufacture of powders and explosives for civil and military applications).

2004 The defence and manufacturing activities are transferred from Muret to Mazères.
31 December 1999 : Lacroix-Ruggieri is the only fireworks specialist able to display “2000” in the sky.
1 June 2006 : The Lacroix Group expanded its product range with the acquisition of ALSETEX in Northwestern France, which is specialised in products for law enforcement/peacekeeping as well as products specific to the petroleum, chemistry and industrial sectors.


31/12/1999 Lacroix-Ruggieri is the only fireworks specialist able to display “2000” in the sky.

01/06/2006
The Lacroix Group expanded its product range with the acquisition of ALSETEX in Northwestern France, which is specialised in products for law enforcement/peacekeeping as well as products specific to the petroleum, chemistry and industrial sectors.

Legal information :
Photo credits : DGA, A.PARINGAUX, LACROIX

Head office  :
ETIENNE LACROIX TOUS ARTIFICES SA

A Public Limited Company with a capital of 2.475.000 €

Located at 6, boulevard de Joffrery – BP 30213 – 31605 Muret
Tel : +33 561 566 500
Fax : +33 561 514 277
N° SIRET : 775 580 434 00 162- RCS Foix
N° SIREN : 775 580 434
Intra-community VAT : FR 83 775 580 434 - APE code  : 2051 Z

Offices/facilities :
ETIENNE LACROIX
,
Route de Gaudies – 09270 Mazères
Tel : +33 561 677 900 - Fax : +33 561 677 985
Head office :
Société d’Armement et d’Etudes ALSETEX (SAE ALSETEX
)
A Public Limited Company with a capital of 3.050.000 €

Located at Usine de Malpaire  - 72300 Précigné
Tel : +33 243 928 100
Fax : +33 243 954 113
N° SIRET : 777 335 522 000 36
N° SIREN : 777 335 522
Intra-community VAT : FR 90 777 335 522 - APE code : 2540Z

Offices/facilities :
ETIENNE LACROIX,
Usine de Malpaire  -72300 Précigné


 

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