What Meurices Workshops does

Ateliers Meurice is a privately held mechanical engineering workshop headquartered in Montignies-sur-Sambre, in the Hainaut region of Wallonia, Belgium. Founded in the mid-1960s (firmographic records cite 1955), the company operates under the legal name Ateliers Emile Meurice and is run with a staff of approximately 15 people. Its core activity is the manufacture, maintenance, reconditioning, and redesign of gearboxes — including reducers and multipliers — alongside broader custom mechanical engineering services such as machining, gear cutting, welding, and in-house heat treatment using four furnaces.

The firm serves heavy-industry clients across six verticals: steel, quarries, cable, glass, agri-food, and chemicals. Its technical offering combines traditional workshop capabilities with an in-house engineering/R&D bureau that designs and specifies replacement parts for client installations. The company also operates an emergency repair service, positioning it as a rapid-response partner for industrial operators facing unplanned downtime.

Commercially, Ateliers Meurice sells exclusively through a direct, quote-based model with no online sales channel. Pricing is bespoke and project-specific, reflecting the custom nature of gearbox reconditioning and mechanical engineering work. With six decades of accumulated know-how and a vertically integrated capability stack (heat treatment, machining, gear cutting, welding, design) on a single site, the firm positions itself as a localized, full-service industrial mechanical workshop rather than a scaled manufacturer or distributor.

Name

Meurices Workshops

Legal name

Ateliers Emile Meurice

Website

https://ateliers-meurice.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

1965

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ateliers Meurice is a 15-person Belgian mechanical workshop in Montignies-sur-Sambre that manufactures, reconditions, and repairs industrial gearboxes and reducers, serving steel, quarry, cable, glass, agri-food, and chemical clients across Wallonia via direct quote-based sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Montignies-sur-sambre

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Industrial Repair and Maintenance Services: One-time repair and maintenance services for gearboxes, speed multipliers, rotating machinery and mechanical parts. Services include disassembly, cleaning, expert assessment, and complete reconditioning.
2. Custom Manufacturing: Custom manufacturing of new gearboxes for specific applications or replacement. Design and production of equivalent or improved gearboxes through their own engineering bureau.
3. Machining Services: Precision machining services including turning, milling, broaching, gear cutting, and heat treatment on a per-project basis.

Pricing tiers

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Core offering

Meurices Workshops (Ateliers Emile Meurice) is a mechanical engineering workshop that designs, produces, maintains, and reconditions industrial gearboxes, speed reducers, speed multipliers, and rotating machinery. The offering is delivered through five integrated in-house capabilities — precision machining (turning, milling, broaching), gear cutting, heat treatment, TIG welding, and an engineering/R&D bureau — sold as customized, quote-based services and bespoke-manufactured units to industrial customers in Belgium.

Product overview

Meurices Workshops (Ateliers Meurice) is a precision mechanical engineering workshop offering a comprehensive portfolio of industrial services unified around the maintenance, repair, refurbishment, and manufacturing of mechanical power transmission equipment. The core offering centers on speed reducers and multipliers, supported by five specialized workshop capabilities: precision machining (turning, milling, mortising), gear cutting, heat treatment, and welding. These services are underpinned by an in-house engineering and R&D bureau that enables custom reducer design and legacy equipment reproduction. The company serves heavy industries including steel, quarries, cable, glass, food, and chemical sectors, with a team of 15 people and over 60 years of experience.

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Products and services

• Réducteurs et Multiplicateurs de Vitesse (Speed Reducers and Multipliers) Maintenance, repair, refurbishment, and new manufacturing of industrial speed reducers and speed multipliers, provided to heavy-industry operators across Belgium.
• Usinage — Tournage, Fraisage, Mortaisage (Precision Machining) Precision machining services including horizontal turning (up to 1100mm diameter, 4000mm length), vertical turning (up to 2000mm diameter), milling (table 4000mm x 1100mm, 1700mm height), and broaching (up to 600mm height), sold to industrial customers as project work.
• Taillage d'Engrenages (Gear Cutting) Gear cutting services including straight and helical teeth up to Module 20 and 1200mm diameter, splines, trapezoidal threaded screws up to 5000mm length, worm wheels, bevel gears, and spiro-conical couples, for industrial gearbox and rotating machinery customers.
• Traitement Thermique (Heat Treatment) Heat treatment services including cementation, quenching, nitriding, and hardness testing for metal parts up to 80kg, performed on-site using four furnaces, provided to industrial customers.
• Soudage (Welding) Welding services including TIG welding (stainless steel, Inconel, Hastelloy), semi-automatic welding, part recharging, welded assemblies, and manufacturing of new housings/carters, for industrial customers.
• Maintenance et Réparation de Machines Tournantes (Rotating Machinery Maintenance & Repair) Repair, adaptation, and modification of mechanical equipment and rotating machines including gantries, spindles, rocker arms, saw arms, and casings, with bearing seat repairs by rebedding or recharging, sold to industrial facilities.
• Bureau d'Etudes et R&D (Engineering Bureau) Engineering and R&D services for reducer applications, including new machine design, reproduction of legacy reducers, performance and lifespan improvement of existing equipment, and technical drawing services, sold to industrial customers.

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Technology focussed No

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Broad incumbents

• SEW-Eurodrive: Global leader in drive technology and industrial gear reducers; operates in the same speed-reducer/speed-multiplier product space as Ateliers Meurice but at vastly greater scale with a worldwide OEM service network.
• Hansen Industrial Transmissions: Manufacturer of industrial gear units and power transmission solutions for heavy industry; comparable product focus on reducers and multipliers, with substantially broader geographic reach than Ateliers Meurice.
• Bonfiglioli: Italian-based manufacturer of gear motors, drive systems, and industrial gearboxes; overlaps in industrial reducer and multiplier product category, though at a much larger company scale than Ateliers Meurice.
• Nord Drivesystems: Global manufacturer of industrial gear reducers, motors, and drive electronics; directly competes with Ateliers Meurice's reducer/multiplier product line but serves a much broader geography and customer base.
• David Brown Santasalo: Engineered industrial gear and gearbox manufacturer serving heavy industry globally; directly competes with Ateliers Meurice in industrial gear production and also offers aftermarket service support.
• Regal Rexnord: Diversified industrial manufacturer with significant power-transmission and gear product lines; broadly overlaps with Ateliers Meurice in gearbox manufacturing and industrial motion solutions.
• Sumitomo Drive Technologies: Japanese manufacturer of industrial gear reducers, gear motors, and drive solutions with global footprint; competes in the same speed-multiplier/reducer product space, particularly in heavy-industry applications.
• Flender (Siemens): Siemens-owned manufacturer of mechanical gear units for industrial applications; comparable in gearbox product offering but at significantly larger scale with global OEM service reach.

Direct peers

• Bison Gear & Engineering: Manufacturer of precision gear motors, gear reducers, and integrated drive solutions; closer in scale and product specialization to Ateliers Meurice than the largest gearbox incumbents.
• Apex Dynamics: Specialist in precision helical gear reducers and servo gearboxes; a more focused manufacturer closer in scale and product specialization to Ateliers Meurice than the largest global incumbents.

Market position

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Funding overview

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Investors

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Investments

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