Our history is above all an inheritance, which guides us and pushes us forward whilst regenerating our spirits. Knowing where we came from lets us build our own path into the future, ensuring that we carefully adhere to our sincere values. This is our day-to-day creed.
Throughout its 70 years of experience, REEL has always tried to be a pioneer… It remains an enterprise belonging to the men and women who created it, make it what it is today and will shape its future.
Company Ferrand & Frantz
The company had written its history with the company Ferrand & Frantz which was built with Charles Frantz, founder of REEL and Pierre Ferrand.
Our first modern overhead crane
The first seeds of innovation were sown by the completion of the first modern overhead crane to be commercialized under the REEL brand. “Rationnel Economique Esthétique Léger” (Rational, Economic, Elegant, Light)
Nuclear reactor core loading gantry, Marcoule COGEMA
As this new source of energy becomes ‘REAL’ a new industry is born, the nuclear age opens new horizons for REEL in the future, with the completion of a loading gantry for an experimental reactor in Marcoule
Destined for a promising future activity
With the expansion of equipment for the nuclear industry, the creation of a maintenance activity becomes top priority, an activity which will, one day, become one of the company’s key selling points.
REEL takes to the air
With the appearance of wide-bodied airplanes, REEL starts providing state- of-the-art maintenance equipment, suspended work platforms, mobile docks, etc. Making time savings of nearly 40% on aircraft maintenance operations.
First refueling machine
With the completion of its first refueling machine, REEL can truly be said to have entered the nuclear age.
Spreading across the world
The globalization of the REEL Nuclear Division, with the supply of mast cranes for a Storage Center in Sweden
Diversification of know hows
The market share held by standard equipment drops to a minimum, in comparison with the market for made-to-measure, automated, specialized equipment. The various know hows across the company undergo evolution.
50th anniversary of REEL
REEL’s 50th birthday witnesses the globalization of REEL, with an initial acquisition of COH, followed by NNSC. REEL multiplies its sites across the world, whilst remaining attached to its origins
Finishing and tests workstations for the A380, the giant of the skies
REEL confirms its position to aeronautics constructors companies by completing three finishing & tests workstations for the A380
Offshore oil & gaz
REEL makes its mark on a new market through the integration of Imeca, a notable supplier in the pipeline laying market.
TOGETHER TOWARDS PERFORMANCE
ALESA completes our expertise in the aluminum sector, along with NKM NOELL Special Cranes
We are ready !
Perseverance, passion, commitment, a thirst for knowledge, listening... The human values that have forged the identity of our group and constitute our strength enable us to work hand-in-hand with industrial companies across the world
REEL COH supplied to SNC-LAVALIN the powerhouse crane and the tailrace gantry crane
NKM Noell Special Cranes took part in numerous projects in Germany between 1978 and 2000, delivering about 150 waste and
This film made on REEL's 70th Anniversary traces with humility, frankness our history
REEL strengthens its commitment to its customer by expanding its global footprint
