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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 (environmental noise, acoustic ergonomics)

 

Compliant with the EN 14501 standard, Mermet® fabrics are suitable for the bio-climatic facades of low-energy or HEQ buildings and meet the requirements of RT 2012 thermal regulations. They make it possible to drastically reduce the energy consumed by buildings (lighting, air conditioning and heat). They play a major role in the ability to obtain credits for eco-efficient or eco-design building certifications such as HEQ, LEED, BREEAM, DGNB, Passiv Haus.


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 and it thus exports to over 60 countries.

 

 







 

 

  

CEO : François Lacquemanne

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

2012 sales : 25-30 M€

Employees : 150 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 :
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.
   
2007 - The Hunter Douglas Group acquired the French company XLScreen, a manufacturer of technical fabrics for solar protection.
   

2009

2011

- The companies Mermet and XLScreen follow their industrial merger with a commercial merger.

- Legal merger of the companies within Mermet SAS, followed by the merging of product ranges, creating a unique collection under a new visual identity and a new logo