Founded in 1932 and headquartered at Montluel, Desautel is a French fire-protection group of more than 1,400 people with twenty-seven regional agencies and eight industrial sites, covering detection, emergency lighting, compartmentation, smoke control, automatic suppression and fire appliances. Its désenfumage activity is certified APSAD I17 and F17 by CNPP Cert. under certificate 028.05/I17.F17 with maintenance to NF S 61-933, and its fire detection under 038/95/I7.F7, alongside sprinkler certification 136/24/01 and the NF Service and APSAD extinguisher mark. Emergency-lighting maintenance is performed to NF C 71-830.