Cetal
Cetal is a French industrial manufacturer, founded in 1967, that designs and produces electric heating solutions — tubular, immersion, cartridge, duct, and circulation heaters — for more than ten verticals including aerospace, petrochemical, pharma, marine, and power generation, distributed worldwide via direct sales and regional partners.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1967
- HeadquartersHaguenau, France
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What Cetal does
CETAL S.A.S., trading as Cetal, is a French industrial manufacturer founded in 1967 and headquartered in Haguenau, France. Operating as a Société par Actions Simplifiée (privately held, no public ticker), the company designs and manufactures electric heating solutions for industrial customers, producing 100% of its products in-house in France and offering turnkey engineering alongside its standard catalog.
Its product portfolio spans tubular heaters, immersion heaters, cartridge heaters, duct heaters, fan heaters, convectors, circulation heaters, and power control panels. Underlying technologies include magnesia insulation, proprietary boron-nitride composite heaters delivering high flux densities of 18–150 W/cm², induction, ceramic, and infrared heating. Cetal holds an unusually broad certification stack — ISO 9001/14001 (since 1994), ATEX/IECEx (LCIE 0081), PED, CE, CSA US, EAC/CU TR, NEC, NORSOK, BV Marine, and QMOS — which qualifies its products for hazardous-area, marine, and other regulated environments.
Cetal serves more than ten industrial verticals, including aerospace, chemical/pharmaceutical, food processing, machine equipment, life sciences, petrochemical/oil & gas, plastics/packaging, marine, and power generation. Its distribution model combines direct sales from the French headquarters, four regional French partners, a premium partner (HEATSOL SYSTEMS PTE LTD) covering Southeast Asia, and additional partners in Belgium, Germany, Norway, and Japan. Revenue, pricing, and headcount figures are not publicly disclosed; the company has launched a 2025 plan aligned with the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and operates a lean manufacturing and continuous-improvement program introduced in 2015.
Cetal firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- Cetal
- Legal name
- CETAL S.A.S.
- Website
- https://cetal.fr
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1967
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- Cetal is a French industrial manufacturer, founded in 1967, that designs and produces electric heating solutions — tubular, immersion, cartridge, duct, and circulation heaters — for more than ten verticals including aerospace, petrochemical, pharma, marine, and power generation, distributed worldwide via direct sales and regional partners.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
Cetal industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Industrial Electric Heating Equipment
- NAICS
- Power Boiler and Heat Exchanger Manufacturing (332410), Air-Conditioning and Warm Air Heating Equipment and Commercial and Industrial Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing (333415), Electrical Equipment Manufacturing (33531)
- SIC
- Air-Cond & Warm Air Heatg Equip & Comm & Indl Refrig Equip (3585)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Heat Exchangers & Thermal Transfer Equipment (IMAHAKAC)
- akta.pro secondary industry
- Aerospace Thermal Management, Insulation & Fire Protection Materials (IMABANAE)
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Where Cetal is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Haguenau
- HQ country
- France
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
Cetal business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales
Revenue model
- Standard Electric Heating Products: Catalog products including tubular heaters, cartridge heaters, immersion heaters, duct heaters, fan heaters, and convectors sold as one-time equipment purchases with competitive pricing and quick delivery
- Customized Heating Solutions: Tailored heating elements and systems designed to customer specifications for specialized industrial applications, offering higher margins through value-added engineering
- Turnkey Heating Systems and Engineering: Complete project engineering services including heating systems design, project management, and delivery of turnkey solutions for complex industrial heating requirements
- Power Control Panels: Turn-key power control panels for controlling and regulating heating equipment
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels5 records
Marketing channels4 records
Cetal product offering
Product offeringCore offering
Cetal designs and manufactures electric heating solutions for industrial applications, offering a complete range of standard and customized heating elements, immersion heaters, cartridge heaters, circulation heaters, duct heaters, fan heaters, convectors, and turnkey power control panels. All products are manufactured 100% in-house at the company's facility in Haguenau, France, using European-sourced premium components, and are certified to international standards (ATEX/IECEx, PED, CSA US, EAC/CU TR, NORSOK, BV Marine) for deployment in hazardous areas, pressure equipment, marine, and petroleum environments.
Product overview
Cetal is a French industrial company specializing in the design and manufacture of electric heating solutions for industry since 1967. The product portfolio is organized into four main categories: Standard Products (catalogue offerings with competitive pricing and quick delivery including flexible tubular heaters, immersion heaters, cartridge heaters, duct heaters, fan heaters, industrial convectors, and power control panels); Customized Products (tailored heating solutions including straight and bended heaters, cast-in heaters, anti-condensation elements, movable immersion heaters, and customized duct heaters); High Flux Products (advanced boron nitride technology heaters including bolt heaters and high-flux flange immersion heaters for demanding applications); and Heating Systems (complete solutions including cast-in and in-line circulation heaters, power control panels, and split-oven systems for tubular reactors). The company also offers accessories like thermocouples, sensors, coil heaters, and specialized nozzle heaters. All products are manufactured 100% in France at the Haguenau facility, with many products available in ATEX/IECEx versions for hazardous environments.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Products and services
- Hotflex Flexible Tubular Heaters Flexible tubular heating elements that can be shaped to fit complex geometries; used in industrial heating applications requiring customized form factors.
- Ribbed Heating Elements Ribbed-profile electric heating elements designed for industrial air and surface heating applications.
- Cartridge Heaters Compact high-density cylindrical heating elements for integration into molds, platens, dies, and OEM machinery.
- Screw Plug Immersion Heaters Immersion heaters installed via threaded screw plug into tanks and vessels for liquid heating in industrial processes.
- Flange Immersion Heaters Flanged immersion heaters for direct installation on tanks, pressure vessels, and process equipment for liquid heating.
- Titanium Screw Plug Immersion Heaters Titanium-construction screw plug immersion heaters for corrosive fluids and chemically aggressive process environments.
- Movable Immersion Heaters Portable or repositionable immersion heaters designed for flexible deployment in industrial liquid heating applications.
- Anti-condensation Self-regulated Immersion Heaters Self-regulating immersion heaters that prevent condensation formation in enclosures and electrical cabinets.
- Drum Heaters Heaters designed to wrap around industrial drums to maintain or elevate the temperature of viscous fluids and contents.
- Wine Heaters Specialized heaters for wine-making and beverage industry use, providing controlled heating of wine and related fluids.
- In-line Heaters In-line electric heaters installed in piping systems to heat fluids as they flow through the process.
- Industrial Convectors Industrial-grade convection heaters for space heating in industrial environments, workshops, and process areas.
- ATEX Industrial Convectors ATEX-certified industrial convection heaters for use in hazardous and explosive atmospheres.
- Duct Heaters Electric heaters installed in air ducts and ventilation systems for HVAC and industrial air heating applications.
- Fan Heaters Electric fan-forced heaters for industrial space heating and forced-air process heating.
- Coil Heaters Coiled heating elements for specialized hot-runner and injection molding applications.
- Nozzle Heater Type "Hotslot" Specialized nozzle heaters for hot-runner injection molding systems providing concentrated heat at plastic injection points.
- Die-Casting Nozzle Heaters Heaters designed for die-casting nozzles, providing high-temperature heat at the metal injection point in die-casting equipment.
- High-Flux Bolt Heaters High heat density (18-150 W/cm²) bolt heaters using boron nitride compaction for high-performance industrial heating.
- High-Flux Flange Immersion Heaters High heat density flange immersion heaters using boron nitride compaction for demanding industrial process applications.
- Cast-in Circulation Heaters Cast-in circulation heaters for high-pressure and high-temperature industrial fluid heating in hazardous environments.
- In-line Circulation Heaters In-line circulation heaters for continuous heating of fluids in industrial processes, including hazardous-area applications.
- Power Control Panels Turnkey power control panels for managing and controlling electric heating systems in industrial installations.
- Split-oven Heating Systems for Tubular Reactors Split-oven heating systems designed for tubular reactors in chemical and industrial process applications.
- Customized Thermocouples and Sensors Customized thermocouples and temperature sensors for use with Cetal heating systems and industrial process control.
- Customized Heating Solutions Engineered custom heating solutions including straight heaters, bended heaters, anti-condensation heating elements, cast-in heaters, customized duct heaters, and customized cartridge heaters for unique industrial applications.
- Defrosting Solutions Defrosting heating solutions for industrial refrigeration, cold storage, and equipment frost prevention applications.
Companies that use Cetal
Customer profileNamed customers3 records
Segments10 records
Ideal customer profiles5 records
Cetal technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Feature5 records
Cetal partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Ten partnerships are on record, tiered regional, premium and core.
- BONDUELLEregionalRegional sales partner located in Montrelais, France (Beaubuisson, 44370 MONTRELAIS). Provides local sales and technical support for CETAL products in the western France region.
- DIFATECregionalRegional sales partner in Cergy, France (Bâtiment 9, Bureau 117, 18 Boulevard de la paix, 95800 CERGY). Provides sales and technical support for Paris region customers.
- DIMECAregionalRegional sales partner in Irigny, France (4, rue Fondation Dorothée PETIT, 69540 IRIGNY). Provides sales support for the Lyon/southeastern France region.
- DIREPregionalRegional sales partner in Saverne, France (15, rue de la Côte, BP 60003, 67701 SAVERNE). Provides sales coverage for Alsace region.
- HEATSOL SYSTEMS PTE LTDpremiumPremium partner covering Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam markets. Website: www.heatsol.com.sg. Provides sales, technical support, and after-sales service for Southeast Asian customers.
- OHMEWATTregionalBelgian sales partner representing CETAL products in Belgium. Website: www.ohmewatt.be
- HEWID HEIZELEMENTE GMBHregionalGerman sales partner representing CETAL products in Germany. Website: www.hewid.de
- RANDABERG TECHNOLOGY ASregionalNorwegian sales partner representing CETAL products in Norway and the North Sea region. Website: www.rgroup.no/technology
- JAPAN MACHINERY COregionalJapanese sales partner representing CETAL products in Japan. Website: www.japanmachinery.com
- LCIE (Bureau Veritas)coreNotified body (accredited under number 0081) that conducts ATEX and IECEx certification testing for CETAL products. LCIE issues type examination certificates confirming compliance with European and international standards for explosive atmospheres.
Scale indicators4 records
Recent moves5 records
Expansion highlights4 records
Cetal competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Tutco Heating Solutions Group: Tutco designs and manufactures electric heating elements and assemblies for industrial, aerospace, and commercial applications. Its open coil, tubular, and duct heater product lines overlap directly with Cetal's offerings, and it serves similar process heating use cases.
- Watlow Electric Manufacturing: Watlow is a leading global manufacturer of electric heating elements, temperature sensors, and integrated thermal solutions serving aerospace, medical, food, and industrial process markets. It is the most direct large-scale peer to Cetal, with overlapping product categories (tubular, cartridge, immersion, duct heaters) and similar custom-engineering capabilities.
- Türk + Hillinger GmbH: Türk + Hillinger manufactures tubular heaters, cartridge heaters, and heating elements for industrial and household appliance applications. The German mid-market peer directly overlaps with Cetal's catalog and serves comparable plastics processing and industrial OEM customers.
- Vulcan Electric: Vulcan Electric manufactures electric heating elements including band, strip, cartridge, and tubular heaters for industrial, semiconductor, and aerospace applications. It is a US peer with comparable specialty heating focus and custom-engineering capabilities.
- Friedr. Freek GmbH: Friedr. Freek is a German manufacturer of electric heating elements including tubular heaters, immersion heaters, and high-temperature heating systems for industrial and household appliance markets. It is a comparable European mid-market specialist with similar certification-driven focus.
- Backer Hotwatt: Backer Hotwatt manufactures cartridge heaters, band heaters, immersion heaters, and flexible heating elements for industrial applications including medical, aerospace, and process industries. It is a closely comparable US-based specialist with a similar catalog and custom-engineering approach to Cetal.
- Tempco Electric Heater Corporation: Tempco manufactures electric heating elements including band, cartridge, strip, immersion, and tubular heaters for plastics processing, packaging, medical, and industrial OEM applications. It is a US peer with overlapping product breadth and customization capabilities comparable to Cetal.
- Chromalox (Spirax Group): Chromalox designs and manufactures industrial electric heating solutions including immersion heaters, circulation heaters, duct heaters, and process heating systems for hazardous and non-hazardous environments. Now part of Spirax-Sarco, it competes directly with Cetal in process heating for petrochemical, chemical, and power generation verticals.
- Hotset Heizpatronen und Heizelemente: Hotset is a German manufacturer of high-performance cartridge heaters, tubular heaters, and hot runner systems for plastic injection molding and industrial process heating. It is a closely comparable European specialist competing with Cetal in plastics, packaging, and OEM heating applications.
Emerging players
- Wattco: Wattco is a Canadian manufacturer and distributor of industrial electric immersion heaters, circulation heaters, and process heating solutions serving chemical, oil & gas, and food industries. It is a smaller, primarily catalog-focused peer with comparable product types but less customization depth than Cetal.
Market position
Strengths4 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat5 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
Cetal social profiles
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Trust signalCompliance12 records
Cetal financial estimates
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Cetal funding detail
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Investors
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Frequently asked questions about Cetal
What does Cetal do?
Cetal designs and manufactures electric heating solutions for industrial applications, offering a complete range of standard and customized heating elements, immersion heaters, cartridge heaters, circulation heaters, duct heaters, fan heaters, convectors, and turnkey power control panels. All products are manufactured 100% in-house at the company's facility in Haguenau, France, using European-sourced premium components, and are certified to international standards (ATEX/IECEx, PED, CSA US, EAC/CU TR, NORSOK, BV Marine) for deployment in hazardous areas, pressure equipment, marine, and petroleum environments.
Is Cetal a public or private company?
Cetal is a private company. It is classified as unknown and is currently operating.
When was Cetal founded?
Cetal was founded in 1967. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is Cetal based?
Cetal is headquartered in Haguenau, France, in the Europe region.
How does Cetal make money?
Four revenue lines are on record. Standard Electric Heating Products are the primary driver. The others are customized Heating Solutions, turnkey Heating Systems and Engineering and power Control Panels.
Who are Cetal's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Tutco Heating Solutions Group, Watlow Electric Manufacturing, Türk + Hillinger GmbH, Vulcan Electric, Friedr. Freek GmbH, Backer Hotwatt, Tempco Electric Heater Corporation, Chromalox (Spirax Group) and Hotset Heizpatronen und Heizelemente. Wattco is listed as an emerging player.
Does Cetal have an API?
No public API is recorded for Cetal.
What industry is Cetal in?
Cetal's product category is Industrial Electric Heating Equipment. Its primary akta.pro industry code is IMAHAKAC, Heat Exchangers & Thermal Transfer Equipment, with a secondary code of IMABANAE, Aerospace Thermal Management, Insulation & Fire Protection Materials. Its NAICS code is 332410 and its SIC code is 3585.