page_title: Fernand de Saintignon
section_title: Corporate positions
hierarchical_section_title: Fernand de Saintignon / Life / Corporate positions
caption_attribution_description: Carte publicitaire ancienne Société des Aciéries de Longwy - Dépôt de Paris - Rue St-Gobain - Aubervilliers
context_page_description: Count Fernand de Saintignon was a French steel maker. He was descended from an old aristocratic family, and became owner of a steel company with operations in Luxembourg and Lorraine by marriage. He was also interested in scientific subjects, and published several papers. He developed a spa around a source of pure, hot water discovered accidentally while exploring for coal deposits.
context_section_description: The Société des Aciéries de Longwy was founded on 1 June 1880 by a merger of the Usine du Prieuré and the Usine Port-Sec in Mont-Saint-Martin.
  Baron Renaud Oscar d'Adelswärd (1811–98) was president and Jean-Joseph Labbé was vice-president.
  Members of the Aciéries de Longwy board were Baron Gustave Oscar d'Adelswärd (1843–95), Count Fernand de Saintignon, Gustave Raty, Jean-Alfred Labbé, Baron Hippolyte d'Huart, Baron Fernand d'Huart and Robert de Wendel.
  Fernand de Saintignon was on the management committee of the Comité des forges, the French steelmakers' association, from 1881.
  He was President of the Comité des Forges et Mines de Fer de Meurthe-et-Moselle, President of the Comptoir Métallurgique de Longwy, co-manager of the Société des Hauts-Fourneaux de Saulnes, Chairman of the Mines de Valleroy, Administrator of the Bank of France and Administrator  of the Chemins de fer de l'Est.
  In 1910 Fernand de Saintignon became chairman of the Aciéries de Longwy.
caption: Aciéries de Longwy in Aubervilliers
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