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Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie (CMI) is a mechanical engineering group headquartered in Seraing, Belgium, producing machinery for steel plants, industrial heat recovery equipment and boiler, and shunting locomotives and military equipment (artillery guns). ==History== :''see also John Cockerill (company) and Cockerill (company)'' In 1817 the John Cockerill company was founded in Seraing nr. Liege, Belgium by John Cockerill. As well as creating an iron works John Cockerill also instigated machine building activities, following in the footsteps of his father William Cockerill's who had made his fortune constructing machines for the textile industry in Belgium. The company produced the primary industrial machinery of the day; steam engines, blast furnace blowers etc. . In 1835 the company produced the first Belgian steam locomotive ''La Belge'', beginning a tradition of building locomotives for the railways of Belgium. An association with military equipment also began early in the 19th century; building a battleship for the United Kingdom of the Netherlands navy in 1825.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CMI defence : History )〕 By 1981 the division had become part of the financially troubled Cockerill-Sambre, in 1982 ''Cockerill-Mechanique'' (with a capital of ~2billion Belgian francs) became a 100% owned subsidiary of that company as Cockerill Mechanical Industries; the company was one of the more profitable parts of the group and it was planned to sell the company as part of the dismantling of Cockerill-Sambre; the plan was not carried out. The company remained a division of ''Cockerill-Sambre'' (and its successor Usinor) until 2002 when it was sold to private investors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cmigroupe.com/vpage.php?id=5 )〕 In 2004 the company was renamed Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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