ALMA

ALMA is the world leader for tractor-towed harvesters and is well placed for its self-propelled multifunction harvesters. In 1922, Louis Arnaud succeeds three generations of blacksmiths and farming toolmakers and specializes in agricultural equipment repairs. ALMA decides to drop its trading activities and concentrate on the sole manufacturing of trailers, manure-spreaders and pickup-crushers. This requires extra land for expansion and in 1972, ALMA builds a new factory on a 2.5 hectares site in the new Industrial Zone of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux.With the development of the tractor-towed grape-harvester starting in 1976-77, this site becomes the new ALMA Head Office.