Our story
Mecalectro timeline
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1902
Mr Maurice Mosnier, a young engineer with an applied arts and crafts degree, creates an eponymous company in Montrouge. Driven by a creative spirit and blessed with a daring nature, Maurice Mosnier was determined to develop a new generation of electromagnets.
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1945
Mr Dupont, a former production manager, is running the recently acquired company. He continues the business for two years before deciding to sell the company in 1948.
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1948
Four partners, Messrs Melut, Langrand, Malabry and Mazard purchase the company and name it Mecalectro.
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1950
Paris Fair.
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1968
Construction of a tailor-made factory in Massy to meet the challenges of the company’s development and innovation. Mecalectro leaves Montrouge.
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1970
The partners split up after the company is purchased by BANEXI, a subsidiary of the BNP. Mecalectro then becomes a simplified joint-stock company.
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1983
Mecalectro is sold to the company CROUZET, a French constructor specializing in automation components.
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1990
Mecalectro is purchased following an employee buyout by Messrs Roger CHAMPT, Deputy CEO of SEXTANT AVIONIQUE and Jean Claude CHABIN, then the Industrial Director at CROUZET.
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1998
Mecalectro reaches 50.
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2018
Mecalectro celebrates its 70th anniversary.
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2019
Taken over by its managing executives, financially backed by the PENINSULAR Capital investment fund.
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2020
Mecalectro is highly active during the Covid-19 crisis, manufacturing actuators that are a component of the ventilators made by Air Liquide Medical Systems.
Winner of the 91 d’Or in the company restart category.
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2021
A Mecalectro agency is opened in Saarbrucken, Germany.
Renewal of all our EN 9100 and ISO 9001 certifications.
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2022
Mecalectro exhibits at four international trade shows:
- Global Industrie, industrial market- Eurosatory, defense and security sector
- Innotrans, railway sector
- Compamed, medical sector
