AIAC CELEBRATES THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF NEOTISS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Farnborough, Hampstead, England, UK, and Paris, France — July 22, 2026 — At the 2026 Farnborough International Airshow, American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) proudly congratulates Neotiss, a member of the AIAC family of companies and a world leader in thin welded titanium and specialty metal tubes, on its 50th anniversary.
Founded in 1976, Neotiss has spent half a century perfecting the manufacture of thin welded tubes in titanium, austenitic and ferritic stainless steel, duplex, and specialized high-alloy grades. From its headquarters near Paris, the company operates production facilities across three continents — in France, the United States, China, and India — and supplies customers around the world with tubes engineered to perform in the most demanding conditions, in ultra low to ultra high temperatures, in seawater and brackish water to highly corrosive process streams.
Over five decades, Neotiss has become an indispensable supplier to the aerospace, defense, power generation, desalination, petrochemical, chemical, and automotive industries, with its tubes at work in commercial and defense jet aircraft, conventional and nuclear power plants and desalination facilities across the globe. Innovations such as the NEOTISS™ Helix tube, engineered to maximize heat transfer in steam surface condensers, reflect a culture of continuous research and engineering excellence that has kept the company at the forefront of its field.
For AIAC, the anniversary carries particular meaning. As a member of the AIAC group of companies, Neotiss exemplifies the craftsmanship, precision, and enduring quality that define AIAC’s manufacturing enterprises across 24 countries. Its titanium and specialty-alloy expertise complements AIAC’s broader work in aerospace, nuclear, petrochemical, and marine engineering, serving customers and governmental entities in every major industrial sector.
AIAC Chairman L. M. Levie stated:
“Fifty years is a rare achievement, and rarer still is a company that spends every one of them in pursuit of doing difficult things exceptionally well. Neotiss has done precisely that — mastering the craft of the welded tube, an unassuming object on which power plants, desalination works, and great engines quietly depend.”
“The men and women of Neotiss belong to a tradition AIAC holds dear: that of the skilled hand and the disciplined mind, of materials shaped with patience and precision to serve the needs of industry and society. For half a century they have supplied the tubes that carry heat and energy through the world’s most demanding machinery, and they have done so with a consistency that speaks to genuine mastery.
On behalf of AIAC and its companies around the world, I extend our warmest congratulations to the entire Neotiss team on this golden anniversary, and our confidence in the fifty years of innovation and achievement still to come.”
About Neotiss
Neotiss is a world leader in thin welded tubes, serving the power generation, desalination, process, petrochemical, automotive, and aerospace markets. Founded in 1976 and headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris, France, the company supplies tubes in titanium, austenitic and ferritic stainless steel, duplex, and specialized high-alloy grades, in a wide range of dimensions and designs. Formerly known under the Valinox Welded and Valtimet names, Neotiss today operates manufacturing facilities in France, the United States, China, and India, supported by a worldwide sales network.
Neotiss tubes can be straight or U-bent and smooth or enhanced — corrugated, low-finned, helix, or inner-ribbed — to meet the requirements of each application, including secondary systems in conventional and nuclear power plants, desalination plants, and chemical and industrial processes. The company’s innovations include the NEOTISS™ Helix tube, designed to maximize heat-transfer performance during condensation in steam surface condensers, and a dedicated research program focused on the performance, longevity, and testing of tubes for the harshest environments.
For further information, see: www.neotiss.com
About American Industrial Acquisition Corporation
American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC) is a diversified industrial group with manufacturing, distribution, and administrative sites in 24 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia-New Zealand. AIAC has acquired and grown non-core subsidiaries and divisions of Boeing, Siemens, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Johnson Controls, Merck, Pfizer, Astellas, Visteon, Carlyle, KKR, Ahlstrom, Novellis, Tolko, Groupe Suez, Groupe Rexel, and many other leading multinational corporations.
AIAC companies serve companies and governmental entities worldwide in all major sectors, including aviation, space, defense, automotive, truck, rail, marine, petrochemical, solar, nuclear, civil engineering, logistics, agriculture, infrastructure, commercial construction, mining, dredging, disaster relief, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals. In addition, AIAC companies are exclusive, authorized distributors of leading branded industrial products and serve as critical suppliers for the construction of major airports, schools, hospitals, performing arts and sports centers, offices and hotels throughout Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. AIAC is a major manufacturer of materials for green houses globally, building, street, and highway signage in Europe, and a distributor of electrical products throughout France.
Of note, AIAC purchased Boeing Canada in 2005 and has produced over 10,000 unique components for every Boeing jet plane ever since, reliably serving Boeing from manufacturing facilities in North America. A leader in ultra-high precision jet engine component manufacturing, AIAC companies produce 2,200 fan blades for each jet engine produced by GE, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls Royce, and Honeywell.
AIAC companies actively support exploration into outer space, manufacturing critical components for launching and propelling spacecraft and satellites. AIAC customers in this sector include NASA, SpaceX, the European Space Agency, Blue Origin, and Boeing. AIAC companies also lead in the design and manufacture of undersea umbilical cables for worldwide oceanographic research.
AIAC companies produce the critical automotive wire and cable for Tesla, GM, Ford, Chrysler-Fiat, Toyota, and Nissan and for the New York and Atlanta Subways. In connection with its kraft paper manufacturing interests in Canada and the US, AIAC sustainably manages 22 million acres of Manitoba, Canada forestland, an area equivalent in size to the nation of Hungary. AIAC affiliate, Metallwarenfabrik Gemmingen GmbH, located in Germany, designs, manufactures and distributes high performance, emergency portable power generators utilized in global conflict zones and during major natural disasters.
For further information, see: www.aiac.com
About AIAC Philanthropies
AIAC and the AIAC Foundation support a wide range of nonprofit, nonsectarian, bipartisan organizations which promote international conflict resolution, disaster relief, economic development, environmental sustainability, exploration, and the performing arts. The exploration-focused nonprofit organizations which they actively support include The Explorers Club, the National Geographic Society, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, Mission Blue, the Jane Goodall Institute, the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Space Society, and the United States Space Foundation.
AIAC Chairman L. M. Levie is a Member of the Board of Trustees of The Explorers Club, its Poet Laureate, and a Member of its Annual Dinner Committee. AIAC and its affiliates, Bradford Space, Canadian Kraft Paper Industries, SuperAlloy Manufacturing Solutions, and Champlain Cable are Partners of The Explorers Club and Sponsors of Oceans Week.
For further information, see: www.aiac.com | aiac.com/our-values
About The Explorers Club
The Explorers Club is an American-based, international, multidisciplinary professional society with the mission of promoting and supporting scientific exploration and field study on land, sea, and in outer space. The club was founded in New York City in 1904 and has served as a meeting point for explorers and scientists worldwide. Members of the club have been the first to explore the North Pole, South Pole, Mount Everest, the Mariana Trench, and to walk on the Moon. The club's notable current members or honorees include Buzz Aldrin, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, Grand Duke Guillaume V of Luxembourg, Sir Richard Branson, Ken Griffin, James Cameron, Ray Dalio, and Wendy Schmidt.
In years past, prominent members have included Sir Ernest Shackleton, President Theodore Roosevelt, Sir Edmund Hillary, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong, John Glenn, Jim Lovell, Thor Heyerdahl, Walter Cronkite, Prince Philip — Duke of Edinburgh, and Jane Goodall. The Explorers Club's historic clubhouse, at 46 East 70th Street in New York City, is a museum and monument to the “Famous Firsts,” the greatest explorers and expeditions of all time.
For further information, see: www.explorers.org
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