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1835
The first steam locomotive rolled out of the Cockerill workshops. It was dubbed “Le Belge”. At the same time, John Cockerill invested in the steel industry. 1910
The Cockerill workshops signed their first contract with Rudolf Diesel for the construction of the combustion engine that Diesel had finished designing. 1975
For the first time, Cockerill’s Mechanical Construction Division supplied the mechanical section of a continuous organic coating line. 1980
CMI added a gear and gearboxe speciality to its mechanical activity and supplied its first turnkey galvanising line. CMI developed a shunting locomotive with a hydrostatic transmission. 1990
CMI developed its activities in Maintenance and the revamping of equipment. It put the final touches to a hot-rolling mill furnace with excellent thermal and ecological performance, and signed its first contract for outsourced traction. 2003
The CMI Group developed its Industrial Maintenance structure in the major industrial basins. 2004
CMI extended its portfolio of surface treatment products for the steel industry and completed its range of shunting locomotives. CMI received a maintenance contract for the Vega do Sul steel industrial complex in Brazil. 2005
CMI acquired UVK, EFCO, Kappa Thermline and Stalproekt. The Group also strengthened its position on the Chinese market for galvanising lines and entered the Russian market of reheating furnaces. CMI rolled out its new four axle locomotive. |
