AHG (Ateliers de la Haute-Garonne)

AHG, whose legal name is Ateliers de la Haute-Garonne, manufactures aerospace fasteners at Flourens, near Toulouse in France. Its website describes AHG as a global supplier of solid rivets, a growing partner in steel and titanium structural fasteners, and a technical partner with an R&D department working on new structural blind fasteners and temporary rivets. The company is a family business founded by Marcellin Auriol and says it has a century of expertise.

Products

• Rivets family: 2,692 references, including stop, Fybrfast, shoulder and pierced (hollow-end) rivets
• Screws and bolts family: 1,243 references, including shoulder bolts, sealing screws, brittle drive screws, captive screws and windshield screws
• Lockbolts family: 40 references, including collars, lockbolt and Sertibolt
• Custom fasteners, designed by its design office and R&D team, with patent protected developments
• A stock list of standard references to MS, NAS, EN and DIN standards, with quotations by email

Manufacturing

AHG integrates as many manufacturing processes as possible in house: wire drawing, hot and cold stamping, heat treatment, cold working, rolling and roller burnishing, drilling, grinding, automated surface treatment lines, laser marking and a logistics center. Screws are sent to its Moroccan workshops for burnishing, drilling and rolling. Boeing reference parts are supplied only to distributors holding D1-4426 certification.

Quality

• Checks after each manufacturing stage (drawing, coining, heat treatment, rolling, burnishing and surface treatment) and a final inspection before delivery
• Traceability from raw materials supplied to installation at the customer, through a computer system and digital twin
• Lean practices such as 5S, SMED, VSM and QRQC
• Photovoltaic panels supplying the equivalent of 85% of the electricity used at the Flourens site

Group entities

• AHG: manufacture of solid rivets, aeronautical screws and lockbolts
• MECAUR and ATCH: remote workshops in Morocco
• AURCAD: surface treatment plant offering subcontract services
• F2C2: cassette feeding systems, also based in Flourens

History and customers

The company's timeline records its first rivets for Dassault, titanium rivets for Concorde, and first contacts with Aerospatiale, Airbus and Boeing. Customer logos on the site include Airbus Helicopters, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Pratt and Whitney and SKF.

Company facts

• Key figures published by the company: 1,250 employees, 1.5 billion parts per year and more than 600 business partners worldwide
• Sales contacts for Europe, USA and Canada, Israel, Greece, Korea and India are listed on its contact page