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PERROT DUVAL IS FOUNDED IN 1896 AND IS LISTED SINCE 1905.

Perrot Duval is the oldest company in the Swiss motor industry still in business. It is transformed into a holding company in 1934 and withdraws from the motor industry in 1970.

In 1938, Perrot Duval creates Infranor S.A. – which becomes Infranor Inter S.A. in 1987. At the same period as achieving worldwide success in the field of large-scale illumination and lighting, Infranor enters in 1960 in the field of industrial automation. Infranor supplies Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) with own components and sub-systems. These OEMs equip the production machines or installations they manufacture and sell to civilian or military industries. The company comprises 4 factories (servomotors, power amplifiers, numerical controls) and up to 12 sales and application units with their headquarters in the various industrialised countries.

On January 6, 2020, Perrot Duval Holding S.A. concludes the final sale of its – fully owned – shares of Infranor Holding S.A. and Bleu-Indim S.A. to Guangzhou Haozhi Industrial Co. Ltd.

In 1989, Perrot Duval set up Hopare Holding S.A. (Füll Process S.A. since 2008), a group of companies which it controls 100%. These companies are active in the field of process technology used in the chemical industry in general, food, paints and varnishes, printing inks and cosmetics. Füll Process has a solid reputation in the field of liquid and paste dispensing.

The Füll Group will expand on 1 March 2021 with the takeover of the activities and personnel of the Lab Systems-EAS entity of Syntegon Technology GmbH (Germany), formerly Bosch Packaging Technology. The entity created at this time, Füll Lab Automation GmbH, covers the acquired activities of Laboratory and Quality Control for liquid, viscous and powder-based products.

Finally, on 1 October 2021, the Perrot Duval Group creates a new strategic business unit by acquiring the German and French companies Polystone, which are among the European leaders in the decorative cosmetics industry, and more particularly in the field of decorative nail gels.

PERROT DUVAL BEGAN TRADING IN 1896.
HIS NAME HAS BEEN QUOTED SINCE 1905

Perrot Duval is the oldest company in the Swiss motor industry still in business today. It was transformed into a holding company in 1934 and withdrew from the motor industry in 1970.

In 1938, Perrot Duval founded Infranor S.A. – which became Infranor Inter S.A. in 1987 – and continues to control this company. At the same time as achieving worldwide success in lighting in general and lighting for supermarkets in particular, in 1960 Infranor entered the field of industrial automation. Infranor supplies Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) with systems and components. They then fit these components to the production machines or facilities they manufacture and sell to civilian or military industries. The company has 4 factories (servomotors, power amplifiers, numerical controls) and 12 sales and application units with their headquarters in the various industrialised countries.

On January 6, 2020, Perrot Duval Holding S.A. concluded the final sale of its shares – fully owned – Infranor Holding S.A. and Bleu-Indim S.A. to Guangzhou Haozhi Industrial Co. Ltd.

In 1989, Perrot Duval set up Hopare Holding S.A. (Füll Process S.A. since 2008), a group of companies which it controls 100%. These companies’ areas of business are process techniques used in the chemical industry in general, the food industry, paints and varnishes, printing inks and cosmetics. Although still in its early days, Füll Process built up a solid reputation for itself in the dosing of liquids and pastes.