AREVA T&D, located in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, will be one of the co-hosts for the 2008 Factory Day. The company will share the limelight of Factory Day tours with Mitsubishi Electric Power Products, Inc. located in Warrendale, Pennsylvania.

AREVA T&D successfully hosted Factory Day tours for the Finepoint Conferences in 1997, 2001 and 2006. It has invited conference participants to see its production facilities once again in 2008.

The company was originally formed in 1878 as the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (SACM) in France. Several mergers and acquisitions followed, leading to AREVA's T&D:

1918: Creation of English Electric Company Ltd. (later known as GEC) in the UK.

1928: SACM merges with Thomson-Houston, forming ALSTHOM SA.

1983: ALSTHOM SA acquires Compagnie Electro-Mécanique (CEM).

1986: Acquisition of Sprecher and Schuh's high- and medium-voltage activities.

1988: Acquisition of the Relays and Instrument Transformers divisions of Schlumberger Industrie. Merger with General Electric Company (GEC) to create GEC-ALSTHOM, later known as ALSTOM.

1996: Acquisition of Allgemeine Electricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG).

1998: Acquisition of CEGELEC T&D.

2003: Four Joint Ventures in China.

2004:ALSTOM T&D joins the AREVA group, to form AREVA T&D.

2006: Acquisition of the High-Voltage activity of the RITZ Group.

2007: Acquisition of Passoni & Villa, manufacturer of high-voltage bushings.

2008: Acquisition of the Finnish company Nokian Capacitors Ltd, manfacturers of power system components, such as Capacitors.