TIME LINE 1870 - 1890 : coal industry : pneumatic hammers and High speed steam engines... 1 > 1870 : Experience’s heritage in compressed air since 1870. AF, a privately owned company was formed in Liège in 1870, to produce pneumatic hammers used for tunnelling in the local mining industry.

1890 - 1950 : Steel industry : reciprocating air compressors, rising from the rubble of WWII

2 > 1900 : AF was manufacturing reciprocating compressors for the coal industry. During the decades that followed, our company continued to develop its heavy duty compressors especially for the steel industry.

1944 : Through Changing Markets, Wars, &  Technologies

1950 -1980 : Steel , chemicals, glass, breweries, OIL FREE air compressors. 1960 : After 1950 when Ateliers François SA was formed, a range of oil free reciprocating compressors with PTFE piston rings was developed and successfully used in the brewing, chemical and food industries.

1980 to PRESENT:

EMERGENCE OF THE PET BOTTLING INDUSTRY AF COMPRESSORS COMMITS 100% OF ITS RESOURCES TO THE 40 BAR, OIL FREE, PET INDUSTRY

STABILITY

With the emergence of the PET industry in the early 1980’s
along with a constant Research & Development philosophy, and
thanks to our numerous subsidiaries, our customers are today
benefiting of all this experience in 135 different countries
throughout the world.

Our customers and references are most renown blow moulder manufacturers, Engineering offices, the mineral, spring and drinking water providers as well as the major soft drinks producers…
Juices, breweries, edible oil,  milk , and all other existing PET applications, FOOD or Non Food industries. Growth by the numbers for the 40 bar  PET Applications

Companies

1870 – 1980 = 1, 1981 – 1995 = 3, 1996 – 2008 = 12

Compressor Sales

1995 = 60, 2005 = 180, 2006 = 274, 2007 = 330,

Installed PET  compressors

 1995 = 650, 2005 = 2000, 2003 = 2,200, 2007 = 2700, 2008 = 3000, 2010 = 3500

People of AF Group :

1995 =49 ,2008 =155
Conversant in more than 25 languages…

WORLDWIDE ORGANISATION

AF is Offering the Best 40 bar oil Free PET Service with its Worldwide organisation.

AF Main factory is located in Liege Belgium.
AF ‘ Sister’s company for the After Sales Head Office and Major Spares Shop separate from the factory is 100% dedicated to the after sales activity. 
CSP S.A. in Alleur / Liege Belgium
Every subsidiary worldwide, from Shanghai to Mexico offers a local Spares Shop and local Service Engineers…