Faymonville Group

Faymonville Group is a trailer and heavy transport equipment manufacturer operating worldwide. Started back in the 1960s in Rocherath, Belgium as a blacksmith shop later started to manufacture and sell agriculture machines and tractor cabins in 1962 opened a new production unit to fulfill the demand of forestry vehicles. In the late 1960s, the company manufactured its first semi-trailer. Today it manufactures every type of trailer for different transportation needs, ranging from flatbeds to SPMTs. With 5 production facilities spread around the world in Luxembourg, Belgium, Poland, Italy and Russia while having its headquarters in Luxembourg.[1]

Faymonville Group
IndustryLogistics
Founded1960 Rocherath, Belgium.
Headquarters
Luxembourg
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Alain Faymonville (CEO)
ProductsTrailer
Hydraulic modular trailer
SPMT
BrandsMAX Trailer
Faymonville
Cometto
Number of employees
1000+
Websitehttps://www.faymonville.com/company/
Faymonville manufacturing unit in Rocherath, Belgium. In the 1960s

With time, the group has acquired and created brands to cater different transport requirements. Faymonville group developed Max trailer brand in 2012 to cater basic transportation needs.[2] In 2017 Faymonville group acquired Cometto which is a leading player in SPMT and industry transporter manufacturing.[3] With Faymonville as primary brand.

History

The brand started as a blacksmith shop in a village, Rocherath, Belgium. Later developed a manufacturing unit for sale and production of agriculture equipments and tractor cabins. In late 1960 the company manufactured its first semi-trailer, having the large number of glass manufacturers motivated the growth of the brand and their first low bed trailer in 1973 for transporting glass. Looking for a solution to transport glass panes vertically, they developed a special inloader trailer in 1977. In 1980 the first extendable trailer with hydraulic steering was manufactured by the company.

With ever so growing demand, the old manufacturing unit could not compensate. For the same reason, in 1988 a new unit was built in Büllingen, Belgium. Which could handle higher demand and production. Since then, the product line was expanding to meet new needs of customers. New production units were added in 2003 in Luxembourg, 2006 in Poland and a CKD assembly unit in Moscow.[4]

Location Use Area Brand
Poland Trailer production 50,000 m2 MAX Trailer
Luxembourg Research &

Development

 36,250 m2 Multiple
Belgium automation, robotics and

mechanical processing

 30,000 m2 Multiple
Italy SPMT production N/A Cometto
Russia Knock-down kit N/A Multiple

Brands
Faymonville trailers at IAA Commercial Vehicles show 2014 in Hannover, Germany.
  • MAX trailer
  • Faymonville
  • Cometto

MAX trailers

MAX Trailer brand is developed by the Faymonville Group in 2012 for basic transport need and transporting payload of 15 to 60 tons, having 2 to 6 axles. The range includes normal trailers, semi-trailer, lowbed trailers and flatbed trailers.

Products
  • MAX100
  • MAX200
  • MAX300
  • MAX410
  • MAX510
  • MAX600[5]

Faymonville
Scania tractor with Faymonville FlexMAX trailer hauling wooden logs.

Faymonville brand is specialized in manufacturing and selling specialized and unconventional trailers for oversize load transportation, which can handle 60 to 500 ton of payload. The brand is well around the world for its extendable trailers and hydraulic modular trailersProducts

Global
  • MegaMAX
  • GigaMAX
  • VarioMAX
  • VarioMAX Plus
  • MultiMAX
  • MultiMAX Plus
  • ModulMAX
  • CombiMAX
  • TeleMAX
  • CargoMAX
  • TimberMAX
  • FlexMAX
  • FloatMAX
  • PrefaMAX[6]

North America
  • MegaMAX-US
  • TeleMAX-US
  • MultiMAX-US
  • HighwayMAX
  • DualMAX[7]

Cometto
A Space shuttle being hauled on a special designed transporter by cometto at Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 6.

Started in 1954 as workshop for vehicles, bridge cranes and systems in the name of Officine Cometto at Cuneo, Italy. With constant growth, the company became a major manufacturer of industry transporter. Some remarkable transporters build by Cometto include 1100 ton capacity SPMT for Hyundai Heavy Industries and 3000 ton capacity SPMT for Nippon Express, which is till date its largest transporter ever built.[8]

Products
  • MSPE
  • ECO1000/1500
  • ModulMAX SP-E
  • BladeMAX
  • SYT
  • ETH/ETL
  • MTH[9]

See also

References
  1. Faymonville. "A look back at the past - Faymonville - Leading manufacturer of semi-trailers". Faymonville. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  2. "Get the perfect price-performance ratio with MAX Trailer". www.maxtrailer.eu. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  3. HeavyLiftPFI2017-03-08T00:00:00+00:00. "Faymonville acquires Cometto". Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  4. Faymonville. "A look back at the past - Faymonville - Leading manufacturer of semi-trailers". Faymonville. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  5. "Our products | Faymonville". www.maxtrailer.eu. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  6. Faymonville. "Products - Semi-Trailers for heavy haulage & special transport". Faymonville. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  7. Faymonville. "Discover our product range for North America - Faymonville Trailers". Faymonville. Retrieved 2022-03-21.
  8. Cometto. "A look back at the past - Cometto S.p.a." Cometto. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  9. Cometto. "Discover the leading technology for self-propelled trailers". Cometto. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
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