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Since 2003, Diadeis (known at the time as AIS) has been an independent company. From 1676 to 2002, the history of Diadeis is intertwined with that of Group Berger-Levrault, of which it was the subsidiary for pre-press and documentary engineering. |
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1676 Frédéric Guillaume Schmuck, founder of the Berger-Levrault company, opens a bookshop - printing house in Strasbourg.. 1805 Nicolas Levrault, official printer of [Napoleon's] Great Army at Austerlitz. 1871 Move to Nancy following the annexation of Alsace [by Germany]. 1933 Publication of Charles de Gaulle's first books. 1952 Publication of the Official Journal of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC). 1957 Introduction of Photo-composition – Production of 'The Marriage of Figaro' on Lumitype. Up to that date, page-setting was traditionally done using lead. Berger-Levrault's pre-press business was one of the first in the world to take the plunge and use this new industrial method. This technological revolution marks the birth of Diadeis as a separate business from printing and with long-term reliance on technological innovation. 1988 Introduction of the SGML standard (precursor of the XML standard) in the publishing world and development of the documentary engineering business by François Chahuneau. 1993 Creation of AIS (documentary engineering) and GTI (pre-press and digitization) by making subsidiaries out of existing businesses within the Group. 1996 Creationof production sites in Madagascar and Mauritius |
1997 SGML structuring of the dictionary "the Treasure of the French Language" in Madagascar for the French National Library [BNF] and the French National Centre for Scientific Research [CNRS]. 2000 Merging of AIS and GTI to create a single engineering and documentary processing company under the AIS brand. 2003 Group Berger-Levrault leaves the company and AIS becomes independent. 2003 Digitization of Napoléon Bonaparte's letters, making possible a new publication of the full text by the Napoléon Foundation and Fayard publishers. 2004 Production by AIS of the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe in 21 languages to be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. 2005 Digital assembling of the French cadastral map, for the Institut Géographique National [National Geographic Institute]. 2006 Creation of a new production site in Romania. 2006 Creation of a Packaging Artwork business in Mauritius. 2006 AIS changes its name and becomes DIADEIS.. 2009 Companies Graphotec, Noelink and Infotechnique become part of the Diadeis Group. 2010 Diadeis joins the AACC (French Association of Communication Agencies) 2011 Creation of Diadeis Iberia in Barcelona. The digitization activities become part of the Numen group. |
Diadeis has inherited a long legacy which can be traced back through history and technological progress. Born out of the graphic arts world, the company has overseen changes to the organisation and tools of its original business. It then progressively widened its range of services towards the sectors of document engineering, electronic management of documents, forms, geographical information and packaging. Bringing these businesses together around the same concern for keeping to lead times and quality, Diadeis continues innovating in order to offer the best technological solutions to its clients (workflow, editorials systems, databases of historical data, cross media publication, 3D images).