John Cockerill Group

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John Cockerill Group
legal form Société Anonyme
founding 1982
Seat Seraing , BelgiumBelgiumBelgium 
management Jean-Luc Maurange ( CEO )
Number of employees 6117
sales EUR 1.3 billion
Branch Mechanical and plant engineering
Website www.johncockerill.com
Status: 2018

The John Cockerill group of companies (formerly CMI Groupe or Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie , before that Cockerill Mechanical Industries ) is a Belgian mechanical and plant engineering group with its headquarters in Seraing , a suburb of Liège .

history

The company CMI was founded in 1982 from the mechanical and plant engineering division of the Belgian Cockerill-Sambre group . The origin of the group was the coal and steel company founded by John Cockerill and his brother James Cockerill in 1816. In addition to the production of iron and steel, it was also involved in the manufacture of industrial plants, steam locomotives, steam boilers and machines.

In 2002 the subsidiary CMI was spun off from the Cockerill-Sambre group and sold to private investors. Since the former mother Cockerill-Sambre has now been completely absorbed by the steel group ArcelorMittal , Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie was the company that kept up the tradition of the Cockerill name . In 2019, CMI renamed John Cockerill again .

Structure and products

NMBS / SNCB class 51 , example of a modern CMI locomotive

Today the company is divided into the following areas: Energy technology

Defense technology

  • Weapon systems (especially cannons with a caliber of 90-105 mm)
  • Armored vehicles, e.g. B. SIBMAS

Industrial technology

  • various machines and devices for production, chemistry, mining, ...
  • Locomotives

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Cockerill Group: Entrepreneurial Group , accessed March 29, 2020
  2. ^ John Cockerill Group: Financial Performance , accessed March 29, 2020