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History

HISTORY

Diadeis is the latest chapter in a long story traversing technological eras and evolutions. Issuing from the graphic arts world, the company has kept pace with all the changes that have occurred in the organisation and tools of its original business. Through this, it has been able to progressively broaden its range of services to encompass the sectors of documentary engineering, electronic management of documents, form processing, geographical information, and now packaging. Diadeis has assembled these businesses around a common concern of meeting lead time and quality constraints and today announces itself as a data operator for all organisations wishing to distribute and enhance the value of their information.

Since 2003, Diadeis (under the AIS name) has operated as an independent company. From 1676 to 2002, the history of Diadeis is intermingled with that of the Berger-Levrault group, of which it became the pre-press and documentary engineering subsidiary.

1676	Frédéric Guillaume Schmuck, founder of Berger-Levrault, opens a bookshop and printing works in Strasbourg.
1805	Nicolas Levrault is official printer to Napoleon's Great Army at the battle of Austerlitz.
1871	The company moves to Nancy after the annexation of Alsace.
1933	Publication of the first works written by Charles de Gaulle.
1952	Publication of the Official Journal of the European Coal and Steel Community.
1957	Introduction of Photocomposition: preparation of the Marriage of Figaro on a Lumitype machine for the Bordas publishing house when typesetting in lead has always been the traditional method. The Berger-Levrault pre-press business is one of the first in the world to take the plunge and use the new industrial process. This technological revolution marks the birth of Diadeis as a fully fledged business, separate from the printing activity and durably founded on technological innovation.
1988	Introduction of the SGML standard (predecessor to XML) in the editorial world; development of the documentary engineering business by François Chahuneau.
1993	Creation of the AIS (documentary engineering) and GTI (prepress and digital conversion) subsidiaries to handle their respective areas of the Group's business.
1996	Production sites set up in Madagascar and Mauritius.
1997	SGML structuring of the «Trésor de la Langue Française» dictionary in Madagascar for the French National Library and the CNRS.
2000	AIS and GTI merge under the AIS banner to become a single document processing and engineering company .
2003	Spin-off of AIS from the Berger-Levrault group and full independence.
2003	Scanning and conversion of Napoleon Bonaparte's correspondence, enabling a new edition of the full text by the Napoleon Foundation and Editions Fayard publishers.
2004	AIS produces 21 different language versions of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2005	Digital assembly of the nationwide French cadastral maps on behalf of the National Geographical Institute.
2006	New production site set up in Romania.
2006	Establishment of a packaging execution business in Mauritius.
2006	AIS changes its name to DIADEIS.

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