Fives Solios has been a driver of sustainable industrial progress for more than 150 years when “Compagnie de Fives Lille » was created in 1861
2003: Creation of the Aluminium Business Unit, namely “Solios”, within “Compagnie de Fives Lille” which gathered FCB Aluminium, Procedair SA, Procedair Industries and Stein Atkinson Stordy (SAS)
2003: Creation of a subsidiary in Bahrain
2004: Creation of a subsidiary in China
2007: Compagnie de Fives Lille became Fives.
Fives Solios changed its visual identity and brand name to become Fives Solios within Fives Group.
SOLIOS CARBONE
1861: Creation of “Compagnie de Fives Lille” located in Fives district in Lille city (France), which was specialized in the construction of equipment for rail road’s and metallic bridges. Creation of special manufacturing workshops in Givors.
1918: Almost 8,000 workers in Givors’ workshops
1958: Fusion with the French company “Société Française de Constructions Mécaniques” (previously called Cail Company) to deal with foreign competition. The new company name was Fives Lille Cail.
1973: Fusion with Babcok Atlantique Company which will become FCB (Fives Cail Babcock).
1990: After having transferred Babcock subsidiary, the industrial group became FCB within the mother company “Compagnie de Fives Lille”.
1996: FCB is organized into 3 departments:
- FCB-DMC (Minerals & Carbon Products) located in Givors,
- FCB-DSU (Sugar), located in Lille,
- FCB-DCI (Cement) located in Lille.
2000: FCB-DMC became FCB Aluminium
2002: Creation of a services subsidiary in South Africa
Participation to the construction of the Lafayette Bridge in Paris in 1890
SOLIOS ENVIRONNEMENT
1906: Creation of a Company of stove setting in Versailles (France).
1919: After a couple of fusions, the company became “Etablissements Tunzini Latte & Simon” and then Pratt Daniel. It was specialized in industrial dust collection.
1958: The company name changed to Tunzini.
1973: The group was officially named Air Industries after fusion with Prat Daniel & Tunzini Ameliorair.
1982: Creation of Procedair Industries in Montreal
1987: Fusion with Syprim to become Syprim Air Industries Environnement.
1991: SAIE changed name to Procedair SA.
SOLIOS THERMAL
1908: Creation of the French Company Charles Marie Stein & Cie, specialized in industrial heating.
1916: Fusion between Charles Marie Stein and James Atkinson, a furnace-specialized Engineer. A couple of years later, the company changed name to Stein Atkinson.
1961: Fusion with Jack Stordy, a combustion specialist. The company became Stein Atkinson Stordy (S.A.S.).
1987: Acquisition by Compagnie de Fives Lille.