CMI, citizen Group

• Particularly concerned with the prosperity and well-being of the surrounding communities, CMI intends to be a reference employer offering rewarding careers to those who use their talents to boost the Group’s success.
  

  Thanks to its international branches, the Group offers various missions abroad and an individual career plan to those who wish to gain experience in a multicultural environment. The amount and experience of experts who evolve within the Group is another asset that attracts enthusiastic engineers who wish to compare their work experiences with other specialists.



• The Group also intends to associate its staff with its goals through cross-company consultations at all levels, from the Board of Directors to parity representations at various sites.
  

  The Group would also like its staff to benefit from the company’s success in the framework of the domestic legislation. In Belgium, CMI was the first to set up in 2004 a system of profit sharing called DOMINO. This system was the basis for a new law that was passed in December 2007, which encourages personnel to benefit from company results.




• In November 2007, the CMI Group passed with honours a first « sustainable development » audit conducted by its customer EDF. For the latter, it consisted in setting up a new type of audit, which evaluates the commitment of suppliers in a social approach by taking into account the citizen, environmental and contractual responsibilities of a company. By accepting to play the role of the « guinea pig supplier », CMI helped EDF to fine tune its audit protocol by acting as the forerunner of an environmental and citizen approach.

• CMI is also involved in the economical and cultural development of the regions where it has a presence. At the highest level, CMI representatives take part in economic development bodies and make a constructive contribution whenever possible, whether in political, academic or associative entreaties. In 2007, this local involvement led CMI to celebrate in an original manner the 190th anniversary of the creation of the Cockerill factories, from where CMI emerged. At the request of the University of Liège, CMI put one of its workshops at the disposal of the University to commemorate the speech given by HM Albert I, King of the Belgians in 1927. This speech, considered as a genuine plea for scientific research, created an infatuation, which in turn led to the creation of the institutional funding of scientific research in Belgium (FNRS).

  Some 80 years later, in the presence of HRH Prince Philippe of Belgium, and political, scientific, academic and economic personalities, CMI used this occasion to point out in its typical way, the deep concern of industrialists about the quality of scientific and academic activities, which are an indispensable support for economic development.