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Setforge LA CLAYETTE
Located in southern Burgundy, Setforge La Clayette is a versatile specialist in premium hot forging, recognized for manufacturing complex, safety-critical components across multiple sectors and materials. With over a century of metallurgical heritage dating back to 1919, the company excels in working with steel, stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, and high-performance alloys through diverse forging processes. This multi-sector, multi-material, multi-process versatility makes Setforge La Clayette a highly adaptable manufacturing partner capable of addressing diverse technical challenges.
Specializing exclusively in small and medium production series, the company delivers components requiring exceptional quality standards for demanding industries including aerospace, defense, energy, railway, and automotive sectors, among others. From initial co-design through forging, heat treatment, and finishing operations, Setforge La Clayette's fully integrated capabilities ensure complete control over every manufacturing stage. Long-standing partnerships with global industry leaders demonstrate the company's capacity to meet the most stringent technical requirements for mission-critical and safety-critical components.
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EMPLOYEES
Years of existence
Certifications
INNOVATION AND EXCELLENCE
Backed by more than a century of metallurgical expertise, Setforge La Clayette places continuous innovation and digital transformation at the heart of its development. This dynamic is driven by a dedicated team of approximately 80 employees, engineers, technicians, and operators, who manage advanced manufacturing processes and integrate digitalization at every stage: production monitoring, quality control, and process optimization. The company's agile organization enables it to adapt quickly to evolving project requirements, while working closely with customers from initial design through to series production.
This forward-looking approach, grounded in proven expertise, positions Setforge La Clayette as a major player in precision forging for complex markets. This commitment to innovation enables the company to remain a competitive partner in facing tomorrow's most demanding industrial challenges.
Certifications
Certified to ISO 9001 for quality management, EN 9100 for aerospace standards, and ISO 14001 for environmental stewardship, Setforge La Clayette maintains the highest operational standards. The company also holds NADCAP accreditations for Heat Treatment and Non-Destructive Testing, demonstrating recognized excellence in aerospace and defense manufacturing and reflecting unwavering commitment to quality, safety, and continuous improvement.
ISO 9001
IATF 16949
EN 9100
NADCAP HT
NADCAP NDT
ISO 14001
a comprehensive approach
Setforge La Clayette operates diverse forging equipment including counter-blow hammers, screw presses, and hydraulic presses, producing components up to 100 kg in steel and 40 kg in aluminum. The facility's integrated capabilities encompass in-house tooling design and production, machining, and dedicated metallurgical and metrology laboratories, ensuring complete process control and enhanced responsiveness.
LA CLAYETTE CAPABILITIES
Small and medium production volume
Steel, Stainless steel, aluminum, titanium, Ni-based alloys
Parts up to 100 kg for steel and Stainless steel
Parts up to 40 kg for aluminum
Parts up to 30 kg for titanium
Parts up to 25 kg for Ni-based alloys
Know-how: Hot forging, Heat treatment
Support activities: Engineering, Tooling shop
WE PRODUCE PARTS FOR THE
MOST CRITICAL APPLICATIONS
Setforge La Clayette manufactures highly complex, performance-critical components where precision and reliability are paramount. The company's expertise encompasses aerospace structural parts including landing gear elements and electrical brake actuator carriages, energy sector turbine blades and valve bodies engineered for demanding operational environments, and rail industry components such as monorail guides requiring exceptional durability. Each part undergoes rigorous quality control through the integrated metrology and metallurgical laboratories, ensuring full compliance with stringent industry standards for strength, dimensional accuracy, and complete traceability. By combining multi-material mastery, diverse forging processes, and comprehensive in-house capabilities, the company delivers mission-critical components that meet the exacting requirements of safety-vital applications across served industries.
HALF WHEEL
Steel
Aerospace
PISTON HOUSING
Aluminum
Helicopter
PISTON HOUSING
Aluminum
Aerospace
BEAM MIDDLE FRAME
Titanium
Aerospace
Our latest News
Tech days 2
15/12/2025
On December 8th and 9th, Setforge hosted the second edition of Tech Days in Clermont-Ferrand. This event brought together teams from Farinia Group companies, Setforge and FMGC, around a central the...
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SETFORGE LA CLAYETTE
Route des Forges
71800 La Clayette
France
+ 33 (0)3 85 28 40 00