Renewal of ISO9001 certification
ALD France has again successfully passed its ISO 9001-2015 certification on October 2024.
ALD France ISO9001-2015 certification
ALD France is a supplier and specialist in single chamber nitriding and tempering furnaces, as well as special furnaces for the nuclear industry. We offer innovative standard or customized solutions for all types of heat treatment furnaces, for all industries and the nuclear sector.
Our global control of our supply chain, from the design to the final testing of furnaces, as well as for retrofits of existing installations. This gives us full capacity to transform individual innovations into a reliable automated processes, enabling a competitive equipment and service supply.
ALD France has been appointed by ALD Vacuum Technologies as the group’s specialist for material nitriding processes and solutions. ALD France offers a wide range of standard gas vacuum furnaces for the industry, supported by a team of highly qualified specialists and well-equipped metallurgy laboratory.
ALD France is a worldwide expert for furnaces in nuclear applications. We offer innovative solutions for the waste management and recycling of metal parts coming from dismantling of Nuclear Power Plants. The culture of nuclear safety, implementation design, manufacturing, codes and application of stringent quality standards of our industry are part of the DNA of ALD France.
ALD France offers standard, innovative and customized heat treatment solutions for materials, thermochemical processes, industries and laboratories. Since we have an overall control of our in-house production chain from designing to refurbishing, we have a real ability to transform customized innovations into automated reliable and permanent processes for achieving your optimal ownership cost
ALD France provides support and services to customers world-wide and is available for the development of nitriding processes, in-depth metallurgical R&D, as well as technical and economical feasibility studies of customer projects for furnaces, for the industry or for nuclear activities. ALD France will also provide servicing and maintenance for the very large base of furnaces installed since 1994.
ALD France has again successfully passed its ISO 9001-2015 certification on October 2024.
ALD France ISO9001-2015 certification
ALD FRANCE
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email info@ald-france.eu
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to info@ald-france.eu