Login | Sign up Company Products Industries Served Contact Us Literature Links General Information The Organisation R & D History Company Video Jobs 1948 Bekaert, a steel wire drawing company, acquires the technology for looped screen manufacturing. Heavy screens for the coal mines are sold through local agents. 1972 Drop in sales due to mine closing. Welded screen and slot tube manufacturing technology is developed. Sales are integrated in Bekaert worldwide organization. 1975 Trislot trade mark is introduced. Welded products and very fine looped screens are sold to the food industry and to filter manufacturers in general. Turnover is around 1,000,000 USD. 1983 Turnover has grown to 3,000,000 USD and Bekaert decides to use the Trislot operation as a platform for diversification. 1985 The Trislot plant in Brussels is closed and manufacturing is relocated in a modern building in Waregem. The heavy looped screen manufacturing is stopped. 1987 Bekaert decides to change its diversification strategy. The Trislot operation is no longer considered as a platform for growth. June 1987 Through a management buy out Trislot Systems nv acquires the Trislot production line from Bekaert. 1987-1994 Trislot Systems invests 2,000,000 USD in new manufacturing equipment for welded products. The manufacturing plant is expanded and reorganized. A new quality assurance system is operational based on ISO 9000. Turnover has reached more than 8,000,000 USD in 1994. Trislot has become an important player on the reactor internals market (Shell, UOP, IFP). 1995 The company is acquired by CAE, Inc. a Canadian group having complementary product lines (screen plates). 2001 The company changed ownership. Due to a restructuring and focusing on the core business of the Canadian based CAE group (flight simulators), the company is sold to a private Belgian investor. The market for the decorative applications of the grilles, before only served through some large customer, is from now on considered as a target market for potential growth. Trislot NV - Roterijstraat 134 - 8790 Waregem - Belgium - +32 (0)56.627222 - Copyright Trislot © 2015 - Sitemap - Created by Media Flux

Login | Sign up Company Products Industries Served Contact Us Literature Links Login E-mail: Password: Lost your password? Remember me Sign Up Don't have an account yet? Sign Up! Creating an account is easy and takes less than a minute. It gives you access to: all private sections online quote calculator quote request form Trislot NV - Roterijstraat 134 - 8790 Waregem - Belgium - +32 (0)56.627222 - Copyright Trislot © 2015 - Sitemap - Created by Media Flux