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It has been speculated that the beginnings of industrialised iron working around
Charleroi may date at least to 1000AD, with water powered forge, and furnace fed by charcoal. The first official record of an iron industry dates to ~1600 By the 19th century the metallurgical inventions of the
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of the 1970s the company had been in a poor financial state; in 1980 the company had total debts of 1,115million EUR and no capital, Cockerill was in a similar position. On 16 January 1981 Hainaut-Sambre and
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224:. The company had, in addition to blast and reverbatory furnaces and coke ovens, licenses for the extraction of coal and iron ore. In 1835 the company became the
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In 1906 the metal working and mining divisions separated; with the colliery at
Marcinelle becoming a separate company, the metal division of the company became
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Further expansion and development took place, with a mill for iron bar installed, then railways in the 1840s aiding the transportation of ore, the
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which were used on industrial railways, and exported around the world. The locomotive builder was commonly known as
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would be instrumental in the development of the steel industry as his contemporary, the naturalised
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In 1978 the company had a steel production capacity of ~2million tonnes pa. In 1980 it merged with
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Société Anonyme des Hauts
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announced that they were to merge the two groups. The company
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In 1955 the company merged with the metallurgical division of
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was in the nearby Liège area. In the 1820s he introduced
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The locomotives were exported and a few now operated on
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318:Société anonyme Usines Métallurgiques du Hainaut
275:In 1967 the group acquired 51% of the shares of
123:region, it was founded in 1955 by the merger of
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442:Derek Howard Aldcroft; Simon P. Ville (1994).
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470:"Société Métallurgique de Sambre et Moselle"
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816:Defunct locomotive manufacturers of Belgium
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324:, built steam locomotives at a plant in
241:, and in 1894 a mill for rolling metal.
748:(in French). Presses univ. de Louvain.
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727:"Notice historique sur Couillet"
609:"Usine Métallurgique du Hainaut"
251:Société Métallurgique du Hainaut
209:then coke fired blast furnaces.
177:Usines Métallurgiques du Hainaut
126:Usine Métallurgiques du Hainaut
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220:of Paul Huart-Chapel to form
173:SA Marchinelle & Couillet
18:Couillet (locomotive builder)
396:List of Couillet locomotives
322:SA Marcinelle & Couillet
289:Thy-Marcinelle et Providence
153:Thy-Marcinelle et Providence
792:20th Century Press Archives
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239:Gilchrist–Thomas converter
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597:(in French). C: Couillet.
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235:Siemens–Martin process
171:A predecessor company
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645:"Locomotive Fleet"
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37:S.A. (corporation)
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143:(based in
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302:Cockerill
283:in 1977.
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135:Charleroi
121:Charleroi
102:Charleroi
83:Successor
341:Couillet
326:Couillet
263:to form
181:Couillet
131:Couillet
98:Couillet
43:Industry
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187:History
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67:Defunct
59:Founded
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