Cini

What Cini does

Cini (legally SAS CINI, trading as Ateliers CINI) is a French design and manufacturing firm headquartered in Tomblaine, in the Nancy agglomeration, specializing in industrial tooling for quality control and production. The company's core offering spans three product lines: checking fixtures (moyens de contrôle, available as manual, automated, contact and non-contact gauges), test benches (moyens d'essai, for impact, slamming, sunshine and tightness validation), and production tooling (outillage de production, including stamping, cutting, bonding, drilling, forming, stretching, drilling templates and painting covers). Around these core products, Cini operates engineering services covering the full lifecycle: CATIA-based design on ten workstations, high-speed CNC machining in steel, aluminium, carbon, resin and polystyrene, industrial 3D printing in PA 11, PA 12, PA 11 GF, PAQc and TPU materials, dimensional metrology with manual/automated/portable equipment up to 6000x3000x1500mm, on-site intervention, and 3D multilingual operating instructions.

The firm is a private SAS, founded in 1961 by Jean CINI as a wood modeling workshop and active for over 60 years. It holds ISO 9001:2015 certification continuously since 1998, has earned an EcoVadis Silver Medal, and is pursuing ISO 9100 for aerospace qualification. Named customers include Renault, Forvia Faurecia, Airbus, Plastic Omnium, Daher and Dassault Aviation, serving automotive, aeronautics, defense ("armement"), medical and energy sectors.

Revenue mechanics are project-based: each engagement is a custom design-and-manufacture contract, with multi-year supply relationships typical of qualified tooling programs. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and quotes are obtained through a direct B2B sales motion (phone, email, web form), with a multilingual website (FR/EN/DE) and a sales organization segmented by industry. The company sold a strategic partnership to Urbanloop in April 2023 and was acquired in 2024 by Predrag KALUSEVIC, head of the TIFACO group, ending 63 years of Cini family ownership.

Name

Cini

Legal name

SAS CINI

Website

https://cini.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1961

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Cini is a French industrial tooling manufacturer in Tomblaine (Nancy) designing custom checking fixtures, test benches, and production tooling for automotive, aeronautics, defense, medical, and energy OEMs, including Renault, Airbus, and Dassault Aviation, with complementary additive manufacturing and metrology services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Tooling Manufacturing

NAICS

Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (334513), All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing (333248)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), General Industrial Machinery & Equipment, Nec (3569)

akta.pro primary industry

Testing, Inspection, Certification & Commissioning (TICx) Technical Services (BPAHAIAL)

Keywords

• Industrial tooling manufacturing
• Checking fixtures design
• Custom test benches
• Production tooling services
• Dimensional metrology services

Headquarters

HQ city

Tomblaine

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Tooling Manufacturing: Design, manufacture, and commissioning of custom industrial toolings including checking fixtures, test benches, and production toolings. One-time project-based revenue from custom manufacturing contracts with enterprise clients in automotive, aeronautics, defense, medical, and energy sectors.
2. Metrology and Quality Control Services: Dimensional checking and quality validation services including on-site interventions with portable measuring equipment, measurement reports, and parts validation in climate-controlled metrology rooms.
3. Additive Manufacturing Services: 3D printing services for prototypes and functional serial parts using various materials (PA, PAQc, TPU). Includes finishing, painting, and assembly services.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Cini designs, manufactures, and commissions custom industrial toolings, including checking fixtures (moyens de contrôle), test benches (moyens d'essai), and production toolings (outillage de production) for industrial manufacturers. The company also provides complementary engineering services such as CATIA-based design, high-speed machining, industrial 3D printing (additive manufacturing), and dimensional metrology with on-site intervention capabilities.

Product overview

Cini is an industrial tooling company offering a unified portfolio centered on checking fixtures (moyens de contrôle), test benches (moyens d'essai), and production tooling (outillage de production). These core products are complemented by additive manufacturing (3D printing) services and a suite of engineering services including design (CATIA-based), high-speed machining, metrology/quality control, on-site intervention, and operating instructions. The products work together to support the complete product lifecycle—from design validation through production and quality assurance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Checking Fixtures (Moyens de contrôle) Industrial checking fixtures (gauges) designed to validate parts and manufacturing methods, ensuring product quality and dimensional conformance. Available in manual, automated, contact, and non-contact measurement configurations, used by industrial manufacturers in automotive, aeronautics, defense, medical, and energy sectors.
• Test Benches (Moyens d'essai) Industrial test benches designed and manufactured to validate technical specifications or product features under configurable conditions mimicking real operating conditions. Types include impact, slamming, sunshine, and tightness testing, used by industrial manufacturers to validate product performance.
• Production Tooling (Outillage de production) Production toolings integrated into manufacturing processes to ensure quality and repeatability. Includes stamping, cutting, bonding, drilling, forming, stretching tooling, drilling templates, and painting covers, used by industrial manufacturers in production environments.
• Industrial 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing Service Additive manufacturing service for prototypes and small serial production using materials including PA 11, PA 12, PA 11 GF, PAQc (grey and black high-performance composite), and TPU. Includes finishing, painting, and assembly services, enabling functional parts without production tooling investment.
• Design and Engineering Services (CATIA-based) Design and project management services using CATIA software deployed across 10 workstations to formalize customer needs and develop technical specifications for tooling projects. Sold as a standalone engineering service to industrial manufacturers.
• High Speed Machining Service Subtractive manufacturing service for high-precision parts in steel, aluminium, carbon, resin, and polystyrene across a wide range of dimensions, using milling centers. Sold as a standalone production service to industrial manufacturers.
• Dimensional Metrology and Parts Measuring Service Dimensional measurement and quality control service using manual, automated, and portable measuring equipment, with maximum measuring capacity of 6000x3000x1500mm. Includes measurement reports, repeatability and reproducibility testing, and on-site intervention services for parts and tooling validation.

Quantifiable outcome

• Maximum measuring dimensions: 6000x3000x1500mm
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• UrbanloopminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 April 2023Partnership with Urbanloop, a French startup pioneering ecological individual mobility capsules. Urbanloop installed its assembly unit within Cini's workshops in Tomblaine. This partnership enables Cini to support the industrialization of ecological mobility capsules while providing physical space and manufacturing support to the startup.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• KUKA Systems: German-headquartered industrial automation and production systems provider serving automotive and aerospace with automated tooling, assembly and checking solutions. Overlaps with Cini's automated checking fixture and production tooling business at much larger scale.
• Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence: Division of Sweden's Hexagon AB providing industrial metrology, inspection and quality control solutions to manufacturers. Comparable technology/customer overlap with Cini's metrology service line, but operating as a global incumbent rather than a custom-tooling SME.
• Renishaw: UK-based global metrology and industrial measurement company. Overlaps with Cini's dimensional metrology, on-site measurement and quality control services, but at much larger scale and with proprietary measurement hardware/software.
• Bertrandt: Large German engineering services provider serving automotive and aerospace OEMs with design, prototyping and development services. Broader incumbent operating at significantly greater scale than Cini but addressing the same customer tooling/design needs.

Direct peers

• EDAG: German engineering services provider for automotive and aerospace OEMs, offering design, prototyping, tooling and production support. Comparable to Cini in target customers (OEMs/Tier-1s) and the design-to-tooling workflow, though at a much larger scale.
• Coskunoz: Turkish industrial group active in automotive tooling, checking fixtures and production equipment for OEMs including global automotive manufacturers. Directly comparable custom industrial tooling product line and customer base to Cini.
• Marposs: Italian-headquartered industrial measurement and inspection specialist providing gauges, checking fixtures and quality control solutions to automotive and aerospace manufacturers. Closest direct overlap with Cini's checking fixtures and dimensional metrology offerings.
• FFT Group: German automotive and aerospace tooling/equipment specialist supplying OEMs with body-in-white systems, checking fixtures and production tooling. Closest direct analogue to Cini in terms of custom industrial tooling for automotive and aerospace customers.

Others

• Sandvik Manufacturing Solutions: Sweden-based supplier of metal-cutting tooling and manufacturing solutions. Tangentially related as a tooling provider to industrial manufacturers but not a direct competitor in custom checking fixtures and test benches.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cini-sa
• Xx.com/AteliersCini

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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