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July 1914
Lucien Magotteaux, an engineer, buys a small iron foundry located in Vaux-sous-Chèvremont
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March 1920
The Magotteaux Foundries are born. One single small plant produces diecastwhite iron balls
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1922
The first Magotteaux alloy, called NEO, wins an award at the International Engineering Exhibition
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1929
Georges Halbart joins Magotteaux. He will be the father of the first Magotteaux balls. He will also initiate the process which lead employees to become the shareholders of their own company
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1946
Magotteaux's Superalloy allows for balls of all diameters to be cast in series
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1954
Magotteaux’s Hypersteel-B, first 12% Cr ball, designed for ball mills in the cement industry. Production of lining plates starts with same types of alloys
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1956
First hardened, cast lining plates composed of a quenched 12% chromium steel to protect the shell of grinding mills
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1963
A new plant is set up next to the original one and seven times as big. First sheltered warehouses; First equipments fully adapted for the production of special alloys (fusion, heat treatment, quenching ...). Production capacity : 12.000 tons a year
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1967
The R&D department applies for a patent for the new Maxicrom® grinding ball (first 17% chromium ball) 1968 – Founding and first production of Magoteaux- Luzuriaga in Urdiain, Spain. Beginning of research around bi metal alloys
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1970
The Duromax®, high chromium alloy designed for the mining industry
