History

Constant Tordeux founds a file factory and employs 30 workers.

Maguin takes an interest in the booming sugar factories and the diffusion process — a revolution.
Knives, knife holders, and root cutters are needed. He builds a knife manufacturing plant and several workshops.

It is the greatest breakthrough in beet slicing. It allows for the production of higher-quality cossettes. Throughput: 600 tons/day.

1907 – The factory is destroyed by a fire. It is rebuilt and expanded to cover 15 hectares, connected to the railway, and employs 500 workers.

Alongside the specialties that have earned it worldwide recognition — diffusion knives, beet washers, hydro-stoners-spreaders, beet elevators, and rotary drum root cutters — whose performance it continually improves, the Société Nouvelle des Établissements Maguin regularly manufactures all the equipment needed for sugar factories, refineries, distilleries, and processing plants.

Maguin’s activity experiences several developments. It is during this period that Maguin’s sugar industry operations expand further, and the company also begins to specialize in equipment for the chemical industry — including all types of rotary drums (dryers, granulators, etc.) and a range of three-cylinder fertilizer crushers.

Maguin is acquired by Moret Industries, allowing the group to diversify its activities, which had until then focused on the design and manufacture of industrial pumps and sugar factory handling systems.