Foundry since 1965
Fonderie de Bretagne (FDB), based in Caudan near Lorient, is an industrial company producing rough and machined cast iron parts in medium and large production runs.
The company, which employs some 270 people, was taken over on May 1, 2025 by the French group, Europlasma, with financial backing from private and public players.
Since the end of 2022, the company has been engaged in an ambitious turnaround program based on diversifying and increasing production, and massively reducing variable costs. FDB's turnaround is accompanied by a highly ambitious investment plan that will modernize the industrial facilities with a new core-making workshop, a new melting shop, and a transformation of the end-of-line and finishing processes. The facilities will also be adapted to new business sectors, in particular the defense industry.
