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OUR COMPANY

Merré the multispecialist of the shipbuilding industry

Merré is a shipyard who builds ships from 12 to 80 meters in steel and/or aluminum material.

Merré is wellknown as the "multispecialist" in the worldwide shipbuilding industry.

Based on both the skills and the knowledge of its teams, as well as a modern organization, Merré keeps under his expertise the entire value chain for the ship construction from architecture to the construction, equipment, sale and after-sale.

Merré is also the only French shipyard specialist of dredging, cutter suction and trailing suction hopper dredging, Genflo dredging process and all dredging equipment.

Two locations : Merré is located in Nort-sur-Erdre (headquarters and production site) and Saint-Nazaire (construction of larger vessels through the facilities of the Port and direct access to the sea).

Company skills

  • Naval architects
  • Engineers
  • Administration staff
  • Braziers
  • Weldres
  • Machining
  • Mecanics
  • Hydraulics
  • Painters
  • Ship fitters

Means of engineering and production

  • Shipyard area = 70000 m²
  • Workshop area = 7200 m²
  • Offices= 300 m²
  • Sandblasting / painting hall = 700 m²
  • Slip way : 160 t
  • Design office : AutoCad, Rhinocéros, MaatHydro, ...
  • Forming hall : presses (7 m), shears, bending machines (large width), oxycutting
  • Machining hall : lathes, milling, slotting, boring
  • Assembly hall : aluminium, steel, stainless steel welding

Several hundred vessels built since the origin of the shipyard in 1921

  • Suction dredgers
  • Trailing suction hopper dredgers
  • Stationary dredgers
  • Pontoons
  • Tugs
  • Barges
  • Pilot boats
  • Road ferries
  • Cargo vessels
  • Passengers vessels
  • Fishing vessels

CONTACT

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SociétÉ des Établissements Merré

Tel. : +33 (0)2 40 29 50 44

Fax : +33 (0)2 40 29 52 56

Email : contact@merre.fr

Address :
Route de Nantes
B.P. 57
44390
Nort sur Erdre
FRANCE

Opening hours :
from Monday to Thursday :
07:30 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00
on Friday :
07:30 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 15:30

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