Key facts
- Company type
- S.A.
- Industry
- Arms industry
- Founded
- 3 July 1889 ; 136 years ago ( 1889-07-03 )
- Founder
- Henri Pieper
- Headquarters
- Herstal , Wallonia , Belgium
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- John Browning Alexandre Galopin Dieudonné Saive
- Products
- Firearms , ammunition
- Number of employees
- 3,000
- Parent
- FN Browning Group
- Website
- fnherstal .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Fabrique Nationale Herstal
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Herstal
- Headquarters
- Herstal
- Parent organization
- FN Browning Group
- Industry
- automotive industry
- Employees
- 3000
- Official website
- fnherstal.com
- Image
- Herstal - Entrée FN.jpg
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- Commons category
- FN Herstal
- topic's main category
- Category:FN Herstal firearms
- inception
- 1889-07-03
- owner of
- Browning Arms Company
- has works in the collection
- Bundeswehr Museum of German Defense Technology
- product or material produced
- weapon
- location of formation
- Herstal
- trading name
- FN Herstal
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Encyclopedic overview
Fabrique Nationale Herstal (French for 'National Factory Herstal'), trading as FN Herstal and often referred to as Fabrique Nationale, or simply FN, is a firearms manufacturer based in Herstal, Belgium, and former vehicle manufacturer. It was the largest exporter of military small arms in Europe as of 2012.
FN Herstal is owned by FN Browning Group (formerly known as Herstal Group), which is in turn owned by the regional government of Wallonia. The Herstal Group also owns the Browning Arms Company and the U.S. Repeating Arms Company (Winchester).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “FN Herstal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.