cockerill maintenance & ing nierie industry engineering headquarters seraing belgium website www.cmigroupe.com cockerill maintenance & ing nierie cmi is a mechanical engineering group headquartered in seraing belgium producing machinery for steel plants industrial heat recovery equipment and boiler and shunting locomotives and military equipment . contents 1 history 2 activities and products 3 references 4 external links history edit see also john cockerill company and cockerill company in 1817 the john cockerill company was founded in seraing nr . liege belgium by john cockerill . as well as creating an iron works john cockerill also instigated machine building activities following in the footsteps of his father william cockerill s who had made his fortune constructing machines for the textile industry in belgium . the company produced the primary industrial machinery of the day ; steam engines blast furnace blowers etc. . in 1835 the company produced the first belgian steam locomotive la belge beginning a tradition of building locomotives for the railways of belgium . an association with military equipment also began early in the 19th century ; building a battleship for the united kingdom of the netherlands navy in 1825 . 1 by 1981 the division had become part of the financially troubled cockerill sambre in 1982 cockerill mechanique with a capital of 2 billion belgian francs became a 100 % owned subsidiary of that company as cockerill mechanical industries ; the company was one of the more profitable parts of the group and it was planned to sell the company as part of the dismantling of cockerill sambre ; the plan was not carried out . 2 the company remained a division of cockerill sambre and its successor usinor until 2002 when it was sold to private investors . 3 in 2004 the company was renamed cockerill maintenance & ing nierie . 3 activities and products edit the company s primary business is in metal mechanical engineering with emphasis on machinery related to or using in steelworks ; maintenance refurbishment and repair of equipment is also part of the companies business . the industry sub division manufactures equipment for steel coil treatment including pickling annealing hot dip and electro galvanising lines rolling mills and reheating furnaces for the steel industry . 4 as well as shunting locomotives . 5 the energy sub division products include heat recovery steam generator and boilers . 6 in the late 2000s the company developed high temperature solar receivers for solar power station with the first installation in 2014 as part of the khi solar one power station at upington south africa . 7 the defence sub division s primary products are 90mm guns and turrets for light armourmed vehicles . 8 9 10 references edit cmi defence history . www.cmigroupe.com . yves m ny ; vincent wright 1987 . the politics of steel western europe and the steel industry in the crisis years 1974 1984 . walter de gruyter . pp. 726 748 . a b history from john cockerill to cmi . www.cmigroupe.com . cmi industry equipment . www.cmigroupe.com . cmi industry locomotives . www.cmigroupe.com . cmi energy horizontal and vertical hrsgs pdf . www.cmigroupe.com . archived from the original pdf on 8 july 2011 . the first cmi energy thermal solar boiler will power the upington south africa plant www.cmigroupe.com press release 22 may 2012 cmi defence sector profile . www.cmigroupe.com . cmi defence cse90 weapon system turret 90mm cmi defence ct cv weapon system 105 mm turret gun 105 120 mm external links edit cmi defence . www.sovereign publications.com . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cockerill maintenance % 26 ing nierie & oldid 736005326 categories manufacturing companies of belgiumengineering companies of belgiumrail vehicle manufacturers of belgiumlocomotive manufacturers of belgiumbelgian brandscockerill company belgium seraing navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 24 august 2016 at 14 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view