Mersen is a global expert in materials and equipment for extreme environments and for the safety and reliability of electrical equipement.
Mersen, Expertise, our source of energy
Mersen's expertise is geared to serving expanding markets like energy (including renewable energies), transportation, chemical-pharmaceuticals or electronics, but also its traditional markets like process industries, helping them to achieve greater energy efficiency.
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Mersen's expertise is geared to serving expanding markets like energy (including renewable energies), transportation, chemical-pharmaceuticals or electronics, but also its traditional markets like process industries, helping them to achieve greater energy efficiency.
- Anticorrosion and process equipment
- Electrical Solutions For Motors And Generators
- Advanced materials and solutions for high temperature
- Safety & Reliability for electrical power
Mersen’s business is organized today around 2 poles of expertise on which the Group holds leadership or co-leadership positions. Graphite systems and high-tech materials for highly demanding industrial environments: high temperature applications, anti-corrosive equipments; Components and innovative solutions underpinning the performance and safety of electrical installations: carbon brushes and brush holders, signal transfer systems for wind turbines, industrial fuses, cooling for power electronics…
With over 60 industrial sites and local representative offices around the world, Mersen’s network guarantees our customers a high-quality response right around the planet together with an unmatched delivery lead times.
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Mersen’s corporate project is first and foremost based on men and women of the Group.They are the one that have the expertise and develop innovative solutions. Their knowledge and know-how are Mersen’s primary asset, its human capital.
By signing up to the French Diversity Charter, Mersen has undertaken to promote a pluralistic approach and to combat all forms of discrimination.
initiative is part of a whole series of measures that the Group has implemented over the past few years to promote diversity. As a priority avenue of im...
Mersen makes this space available for its shareholders. You will find essential information about he Group with regulated information, presentations, letters to shareholders as well as other documents allowing you to better understand Mersen and its strategy.
Mersen makes this space available for its shareholders. You will find essential information about he Group with regulated information, presentations, letters to shareholders as well as other documents allowing you to better understand Mersen and its strategy.
Organizational structure
The Company is administered by a Management Board comprised of five individual natural persons who perform their duties subject to the control exercised by the Supervisory Board. An Executive Committee assures the Group's operational management in support of the Management Board.
Management Board
Chairman of the Management Board:
Luc Themelin (1)
Members of the Management Board:
Thomas Baumgartner: Chief Financial Officer (2)
Christophe Bommier: Group Vice President, High Temperatures (3)
Didier Muller: Group Vice President, Electrical Applications (4)
Marc Vinet: Group Vice President, Electrical Protection (5)
Executive Committee
Thomas Farkas: Group Vice President, Strategy and Development (6)
Estelle Legrand: Group Vice President, Human Resources (7)
Marc Poullin: Group Vice President, Chemical Equipment (8)
Jérôme Sarragozi: Group Vice President, Legal (9)
Charles-Henri Vollet: Group Vice President, Purchasing and Information Systems (10)
Supervisory Board
Hervé Couffin: Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Henri-Dominique Petit: Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Jocelyne Canetti
Yann Chareton
Bertrand Finet
Dominique Gaillard
Jean-Paul Jacamon
Jean-Claude Karpeles
Agnès Lemarchand
Walter Pizzaferri
Philippe Rollier
Marc Speeckaert
The members of the Supervisory Board are appointed by the Annual General Meeting of the shareholders on the recommendation of the Supervisory Board. It exercises permanent control over the Company’s management by the Management Board. To this end, it conducts the checks and controls that it deems appropriate. It oversees the specialized committees.
Audit and Accounts Committee
This Committee, which comprises five Supervisory Board members, four of whom are independant, meets at least three times per year. Its role is to examine any issue related to the preparation, control and publication of the Company’s financial statements, oversee the Company’s internal and external control, familiarize itself with the work performed by the Group Risk Committee and evaluate each year with this Committee whether the risks facing the Company have been properly identified and addressed and to report about this issue to the Supervisory Board.
Appointments and Remuneration Committee
This Committee, which comprises five Supervisory Board members, four of whom are independent, meets at least twice each year to discuss issues related to organization of the Group’s management and systems for motivating and rewarding the managing team according to the Group’s strategy and the latest regulatory developments.
Strategy Committee
This Committee, which comprises seven directors, six of whom are independent, meets at least twice per year, to review Group’s strategy, acquisition projects and major Group’s investments.