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Aubert & Duval is a French metallurgical group (owned equally by Airbus, Safran, and Tikehau Capital since the April 2023 acquisition, with a French State golden share) that develops and transforms complex metallic materials — primarily nickel-based superalloys, titanium alloys, cobalt-based alloys, and high-performance special steels — into forgings, bars, billets, and powders for aerospace, defence, energy, and medical markets.
No single controlling parent — equal three-way JV (Airbus/Safran/Tikehau) plus a French State golden share; Airbus/Safran each moving to 50% once the Tikehau-exit deal (signed 2026-06-25) closes.
Named counterparties identified by open-source research and written only where a primary source states the relationship — never inferred from sector or co-mention. 1 customer-side. This is a partial view: it covers the relationships we could evidence, not the company's full supply base.
Announcing the acquisition, Safran CEO Olivier Andries said it would 'secure our critical parts and materials supply chain', and the release calls A&D 'a strategic supplier of critical parts and materials to high-precision customers, notably the aerospace, defence, nuclear and medical industries'. No volume or revenue-share disclosed. Safran is also a 33.3% co-owner of A&D (see ownership above), so this is a related-party trade relationship, not an arm's-length one.
Scope. Absence of a counterparty here is not evidence that none exists — most commercial sourcing is confidential and never becomes public. Rows without a share figure mean no share was disclosed, not that the relationship is small.
Another tracked dossier names this company as a counterparty in its own sourced disclosure — this platform never wrote these rows on this company's own page, they are read here inverted from the dossier that disclosed them. This is a partial view: 997 additional named-counterparty rows across the corpus could not be matched to a tracked dossier by name at all (mostly non-Latin legal names), so the true count is higher than what renders here.
Related-party nickel-superalloy and titanium-alloy forging supplier (turbine discs, structural forgings) — Airbus co-owns the supplier, not an arm's-length relationship. Dossier: docs/intelligence/dossiers/aubert-and-duval.md. [2026-09-20: prior source_url (safran-group.com pressroom) returned 403; replaced with Airbus's own newsroom release of the same event.]
Scope. This section is inverted evidence: each linked dossier wrote the original row about itself, describing its own relationship to this company. It is never a claim this company itself disclosed. Absence here is not evidence of no relationship — most of the corpus has no named-counterparty block at all yet.
Every exposure is read as a buyer dependency; the top 3 are its binding chokepoints.
As a buyer, policy pressure across its consumed materials is flat.
Descriptive trend in official policy actions on this company’s materials — a policy-pressure trend, not a price or trading signal. No forward probability is implied. Direction is measured on actions we have discovered, and discovery lags events: where the recent window is too thin to support a calm reading, the row says coverage-limited instead of easing.
No actions in the register have named or swept this company in the last 24 months.