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.
Our history
1891 - 1892: Origins
La Compagnie Lorraine de Charbons pour l’Electricité was set up in the Moselle region of eastern France in 1891. It originally manufactured electric motors, dynamos and street lamps before producing coal for electric lighting purposes. Concomitantly, Le Carbone, which was founded in 1892 in the Paris region, produced brushes for electric motors. In 1893, Charles Street, an engineer at Le Carbone, discovered and patented the carbon graphitation process making it possible to manufacture graphite synthetically. This was the first major innovation in the future Group’s history.
1937: Formation of Carbone Lorraine
Carbone Lorraine SA was formed in 1937 from the merger of both companies. This merger helped both companies not only to continue pursuing their business activities but also injected them with fresh impetus from a scientific and technical standpoint. This move to pool their expertise was to give rise to products with a bright future.
International development
From its creation in 1937 until the eve of the Second World War, the Company enjoyed a remarkable expansion, growing from the size of a SME to an international group. It was very fast off the block in terms of international expansion, demonstrating its pioneering qualities and ambition. Since then, it has stepped up its expansion right around the globe and particularly in Asia over recent years. The Group currently has manufacturing facilities in over 40 countries.
Expansion
The Group has expanded relentlessly through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. Past acquisitions have strengthened its global positions in each of its business segments, enabling it to expand its product portfolio and its geographical coverage considerably. It is now the world leader in graphite anticorrosion equipment, brushes for electric motors and fuses for power semiconductors, and number two worldwide in high-temperature applications of isostatic graphite and industrial fuses.
Strategic repositioning
Throughout its history, the Group has stood out through its ability to invest in up-and-coming markets. Over the past decade, it has resolutely pursued a strategy based on four growth drivers, i.e. sustainable development, Asia, selective acquisitions and innovation. It now aims to gain recognition as a leading industrial player in all its markets (energy, transportation, electronics, chemicals/pharmaceuticals and process industries) and particularly in alternative energies.
May 2010: Carbone Lorraine changes its name to Mersen
The Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders approved the change in the Group’s name to Mersen to embody its new business profile.