Origin
A table, drawn up in
1811 by the prefecture of the Department of Jemmapes, announces the existence of two blast furnaces in the area of
Charleroi. They are high with Hourpes and
Gougnies.
Chronology
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1832 Providence
- 1966 Cockerill-Ougrée providence
- 1970 Cockerill-Ougrée Providence and Espérance Longdoz
- 1979 Cockerill
- 1981 Cockerill-Sambre (fusion of the two iron and steel basins)
- 1987 Groups Cockerill-sambre
- 1999 Cockerill-Sambre Groupe Usinor (Usinor repurchases the group Cockerill-Sambre with the Walloon region)
- 2001 Carsid group Duferco