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For 60 years, Mermet has been designing and manufacturing hi-tech fabrics for building finishings. Bolstered by this experience...
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Mermet, technical textile manufacturer


For 60 years, Mermet has been designing and manufacturing hi-tech fabrics for building finishings. Bolstered by this experience, the company has managed to develop and ensure its long-term future through tried and tested know-how based mainly on the use of fibreglass. Mermet now operates on 4 markets:

 

  • Solar protection (external blinds, internal blinds)
  • Tensile structures (textiles architecture, space fittings)
  • Signage (graphical communication and signage)
  • Acoustics (fitting out interiors)

 

 

Since it was founded, the company has shown remarkable dynamism which now enables it to be one of the French SMEs that achieves over 70 % of their turnover internationally. It thus exports to over 60 countries, with subsidiaries in the USA, Australia and in Spain.

 

 







 

 

  

CEO : François Lacquemanne

Head office address : 58 chemin du Mont Maurin 38630 VEYRINS (ISERE) FRANCE
1 hour from Lyons, 2 hours from Geneva

2010 sales : 30-35 M€

Employees : 223 employees in France

Activity : Designs and manufactures hi-tech fibreglass-based fabrics for building finishing work for the solar protection, tensile structures, signage, and acoustics markets

Production plants :
Les Avenières (Isère, France)
Veyrins (Isère, France)
Cowpens (South Carolina, USA)





 

From its origins to its development


1951 - Henri Mermet founds the company which will bear his name.
   

1971

1973

 - His three sons, Gérard, Guy and Georges, join the company.
   
1974 - The company establishes its presence on the wall coverings market.
   
1976 - The company becomes interested in the solar protection market with fabrics for vertical blinds. At the same time, the glass fabric finishing activity began.
   
1981 - Mermet purchases the Sunscreen® brand.
   
 

From commercial globalisation...
   
1982 - The Export growth in Europe and in the United States.
   
1986 - Mermet takes over TPS (Textiles et Plastiques Soudés), a company making up panels for blinds.
   

1986

1997

 - Subsidiaries are created in the USA and Australia, and offices are established in Spain and China.
   
1993 - Mermet obtains ISO 9001 certification for its quality management.
   

1996

1997

 - Mermet acquires a license which will enable to incorporate yarn coating in its production process.
   
1998 - Mermet Industries is listed on the Second Market at the Paris Stock Exchange and adopts a new visual identity (logo).
   
1999 - The company purchases the decoration branch of the Dickson Group with its major brand Saint Frères® which will become the Mermet Decoration Department.
   
 

... to industrial globalisation
   

2000

 - The Mermet Weaving production site is established in the USA.
   
2002 - Mermet creates a warping subsidiary called Warptek LLC in the United States.
   
2004 - The Lesura® brand is sold off.
   
2005

- The Hunter Douglas Group acquires the Mermet Group.

- Saint Gobain Renforcements concludes a commercial agreement through its subsidiary Euromur with Hunter Douglas Group for the wall coverings line of business.
   
2006

- Opening of Mermet India office (within ERAI structure)

Mermet sets up 2 coating lines in Veyrins for a totally integrated production.