PRESENTATION OF THE MAISONNEUVE GROUP

General information :

Name :	Groupe MAISONNEUVE
Address :	59 Rue de la Gare, 50510 Cérences, France
Tél :	02.33.51.90.27
Chief Executive Officer :	Brieuc Maisonneuve
Number of employees :	170

Quality Insurance :

	Reference :	ISO 9001:2000
	Authority of certification :	LRQA (Lloyd’s Register)
	1st certification :	02/07/1999
	Renewal :	31/07/2011
	Champ de certification :	Maisonneuve SAS Maisonneuve KEG

Maisonneuve group

The company’s story :

Maisonneuve and Company SA was created in March 1939 by Mr Camille MAISONNEUVE. The first activity was the production of milk cans in tin steel.. Yet, some months after, the production had to be stopped because of the beginning of the war, as Mr Camille MAISONNEUVE had been mobilized as a fire-fighter in Paris during the whole war.

In 1944, after the Liberation, the production was launched again but encountered many difficulties in getting steel. For that reason, a change happened in the type of raw material used, as the aluminium was easier to find. During the 50’s, Maisonneuve Company encountered a great development and the firm reached up to 100 employees to produce the milk cans.

In December 1967, after his father’s death, Mr Luc Maisonneuve became the headmaster of the firm. As soon as he arrived, he shook up the production.

Indeed, the use of tankers to collect the milk was more and more recurrent at the expense of the cans. At the beginning, Maisonneuve used to produce little aluminium tankers with a capacity of 1,000 to 1,500 litres, which were flat and put on chassis.

In the early 70’s, Maisonneuve abandoned the aluminium in order to produce tankers of 3,000 litres and 5,000 litres made of stainless steel with a pumping group.

During the year 1975, Maisonneuve made many changes in its equipment offer. The road tankers capacity evolved to 7,000 – 9,000 and 11,000 litres and then Maisonneuve started the production of semi-trailers from 11,000 litres to 14,000 litres.

Besides, Maisonneuve was the first manufacturer to supply self-supporting trailers, which was a real success.

At the same time, Maisonneuve was trying to integrate foreign markets trough its first contacts with countries such as Algeria, Tunisia or Bulgaria…

Then began a great export adventure that would never stop.

Always at the same time, Maisonneuve launched its production of self-supporting semi-trailers, first for the milk collecting and food products, then for the chemical products and dangerous matters, some years later.

The firm which was working with dairy producer was also opening its offers to carriers.

Since that period, Maisonneuve has always tried to develop and diversify its productions.

Here, you will find the big steps of this diversification:

1982 Launching of the production of aluminium kegs 1986 Launching of the production of stainless steel kegs

1989	Creation of different subsidiaries Construction of a plant in La Haye-Pesnel
1990	Construction of a plant in Beaumont-Hague
1992	Acquisition of the firm GUHUR in Portes-les-Valence
1993	Acquisition of the firm SATRI in Grenoble
1994	Construction of a new plant to produce tankers in Etoile sur Rhône

1995 Launching of the production of Waste Water Treatment units

1999	Acquisition of the firm ISOLEST
2002	Passage à l’€uro
2006	Retirement of Luc MAISONNEUVE after 41 years His children, Brieuc MAISONNEUVE and Séverine LE ROUX bought out the firm, this is the beginning of a new direction Cessation of ISOLEST and GUHUR