founded 1962 founder jacques marais headquarters durtal france area served worldwide key people etienne dugas ceo products trencher machine subsidiaries marais contracting services marais trenching marais lucas technologies marais tunisia marais algeria website samarais.com marais or groupe marais founded in 1962 in france is a manufacturer of trenchers . the head office and workshop buildings have been located in durtal since 2001 . marais society via its founder jacques marais is in 1962 behind the trenching wheel and the mechanized laying of cables or flexible pipes process . at present marais line includes mainly wheel trenchers chain trenchers and micro trenchers . contents 1 history 2 marais group 3 miscellaneous 4 references 5 external links history edit mechanical laying with a marais wheel trencher created in 1962 mr. marais a contractor located in the sarthe french department obtained a patent for a cutting wheel designed for drainage system agriculture that is the beginning of the wheel trencher . 1974 the administration of postes et t l communications chose to bury 40 000 km of networks . the company invented the lateral translation of the wheel and the laying box to facilitate work on the verge of the road . between 1974 and 1993 several trenchers were built and leased to civil engineering companies to bury cables and telecommunications networks electricity gas and water . 1995 the company investigated new markets abroad morocco algeria senegal colombia mexico united states canada which will soon represent 30 % of its turnover . 2000 marais developed a patented micro trencher named cleanfast for optical fiber cable laying in urban areas . 1 2 2001 by building the 12 000 km ldcom network now 9 telecom the company acquired the skill and experience of a turnkey network solutions manufacturer . 2005 marais company established its first subsidiary in morocco marais morocco . 3 2006 it is the european leader of mechanized laying in the field of power networks telecommunications and water and gas supply burying . 4 2008 the policy of the company is to develop new machines in the field of micro trenching with the side cut 5 6 for the fttx market . 7 2009 creation of a joint venture marais lucas technologies in sydney australia . 2009 acquisition of the marais company by qualium inverstissement caisse des d p ts et consignations and ouest croissance groupe banque populaire and etienne dugas 8 9 succeeds to daniel rivard as the presidency of the marais group . marais group edit marais or groupe marais manufactures trenchers for both rural and urban areas . the marais group is constituted of 5 entities marais contracting services france ; 10 11 marais trenching south africa ; 12 13 marais lucas technologie australia ; 14 15 16 marais tunisie tunisie ; 17 marais alg rie algeria ; miscellaneous edit 2011 member of the ftth council europe ; 18 2010 gold member of the ftth council asia pacific ; 19 2006 french inpi innovation award . 4 references edit haber yayin tarihi 11 october 2009 . mobese sisteminin alt yap al malar ba lad . sondakika.com in turkish . turkey . retrieved 30 july 2009 . greg keane april 2009 . cleanfast for tassie nbn . contractor . australia . j.b 11 may 2009 . marais groupe porte le capital de sa filiale finetis maroc 20 mdh . la vie eco in french . france . a b dossier de presse de l inpi 16 november 2006 . troph e inpi de l innovation 2006 pdf . la vie des r seaux in french . france . j.b april 2009 . sidecut trencher from marais developed with increased capacity . intermat daily news . frank prades 26 june 2009 . pour un d ploiement rapide et discret . france btp in french . france . frank prades 26 january 2009 . la location tire l activit de marais . france btp in french . france . frank prades march 2010 . l expertise marais se vend de mieux en mieux l tranger . france btp in french . france . la r daction march 2010 . etienne dugas pr sident de marais . france btp in french . france . dominique gruson 13 september 2010 . construction des r seaux de demain . anjou eco number 16 page 20 in french . france . frank prades 20 march 2010 . l expertise marais un vecteur d exportation . r seau vrd number 170 in french . france . martin zhuwakinyu july 2007 . automated trenching innovation seen as aligned to big fibre push . engineering news . south africa . david poggioloni september 2007 . faster trenching know how tested . the civil engineering contractor . south africa . telecom crown fibre med team on lower hutt fibre trial . the national business review . new zealand . 7 june 2011 . deployment standards initiative dsi fibre deployment trial . ministry of economic development of new zealand . new zealand . 14 march 2011 . simon edwardsi 1 february 2011 . kelson chosen for ultra fast broadband trenching trial . the hutt news . new zealand . le tunisien gtn construit pour orange son r seau fibres optiques en utilisant des techniques innovantes . tunisia it in french . tunisia . 13 september 2009 . groupe marais membre du ftth council europe . la vie des r seaux in french . france . 8 march 2011 . membership companies . ftth asia pacific website . may 2011 . external links edit marais retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title marais company & oldid 718097049 categories companies established in 1962companies of francehidden categories cs1 turkish language sources tr cs1 french language sources fr 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 espa olfran aispolski edit links this page was last modified on 1 may 2016 at 14 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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