Girodin-Sauer - more than 70 years of competence at your service!
| 1948: | Engineers Marius GIRODIN, former fighter pilot, and Aimé EVRARD create a company specialising in internal combustion engines. |
| 1949: | Application for an original patent for an internal combustion engine known as the "barrel engine". |
| 1953 - 1981: |
The company, named Girodin & Cie, manufactures high-pressure compressors for the French Navy and other foreign navies. |
| 1972: | Design, manufacture and supply of compressors for the US Navy. |
| 1984: | Achievement of RAQ2 or AQAP4 (NATO) classification. Takeover of the company by Henri Heuliez, an automotive entrepreneur. |
| 1989: | The company becomes part of the German Sauer Compressors Group (J.P. Sauer & Sohn Maschinenbau) and from now on operates under the name Girodin-Sauer S.A.S. |
| 1989: | Development of a product range for industrial applications. |
| 1998: | ISO9001 certification of Girodin-Sauer S.A.S.. Opening of the US branch of the Sauer Compressros Group, Sauer Compressors Inc. |
| 2007: | Relocation of the company from Houilles, the historic headquarters, to Cormeilles-en Parisis. Extensive investment in a new production facility and a high-pressure test stand. |
| 2013: | Girodin-Sauer is selected to equip the ITER programme in France with helium compressors. |
| 2015: | Girodin-Sauer is selected to supply air compressor modules for all French nuclear power plants under the DUS post-Fukushima program. |
| 2016: | The manufacturer of oil-free compressors HAUG Sauer Kompressoren AG, St. Gallen, Switzerland, becomes part of the Sauer Compressors Group. |
| 2019: | Girodin-Sauer is selected to equip the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Great Britain with air compressors. |