Naissance de PSP OUTILLAGE

En 2009, la division outillage du groupe PSP se rapproche des deux interventants majeurs du marché français du matériel électrique et semi-stationnaire, Mejix-Rexon et Delta France. Elle devient ainsi l'entité PSP OUTILLAGE dont le siège est situé à Dampierre. Elle compte les marques PEUGEOT, MULLER, METLAND, MEJIX et FOX.

METLAND company comes aboard

In January 2008, the PSP group welcomed on board the Metland company that specialises in hand-held electrical tools. The group can now offer a full product range under the Peugeot, Muller and Metland brands

New product launches

Peugeot Muller is true to its word, launching many new products with redesigned performance features and designs – Wood chisels - Wooden-handled hammers - Adjustable spanners - Bolt cutters

Gold medal in the Design Trophies

The Peugeot wood chisel came away from BATIMAT 2007 with a Gold Medal in the Batimat Design Trophies competition.

New visual identity

Peugeot Muller is updating its visual identity to enhance its products and bolster its ambitions for the hand-tools sector.

A major player in the market

The Peugeot and Muller brands are pooling their experience and know-how to become major players in the hand-tools market. The new entity is firmly oriented towards innovation and product quality. A Research & Development Department has been created and the Manufacturing, Quality & Marketing and Communication departments have been strengthened to meet its aims.

Muller Outils comes aboard

Late in 2005, the PSP Peugeot Group, the world's leading table mills sold under Peugeot licence (over 2 million mills per annum), continued its diversification foray into hand-tools by integrating the Muller Outils company, which specialises in tools for the construction and industry trades.

Retour de l'outillage à main

After 15 years away from the hand tool market, Peugeot has made a comeback. Two years of research and development has gone into producing a new generation of saws: wood saws, specialised saws and trade-specific saws. The new range brings major innovations such as EnergyCut progressive teeth (a patented innovation) or titanium coating for teeth,

Entry into the PATRICIO ECHEVERRIA Group

As it pursued its strategy to concentrate its activities in the pipe tools field, the ROTHENBERGER Group decided to find a new partner for Muller Outils. In May 1999, Muller Outils entered Spain's PATRICIO ECHEVERRIA Group

Fin de l'outillage à main...

After over 170 years experience in the production of saws and other tools, Peugeot bowed out of the hand tool market.

Entry into the ROTHENBERGER Group

MULLER OUTILS found its way into the ROTHENBERGER Group through UNICUM S.A., the holding company under French law.

Progression

The steel and hand tool activity of Peugeot and subsidiaries continues to progress: Motor vehicle equipment: 60 millionTools: 524 millionRolled steel: 548 millionExport sales increase by 35%. Cycle accessories and general mechanical engineering: 351 million.

The expansion

The company purchased the former MAFAP works at Mutzig to cope with its expansion drive. The sales department, warehouse and shipping department were relocated there, and in doing so vacated the premises at Molsheim providing enough room to accommodate the extended manufacturing workshops

Growth

MULLER Outils was expanding full steam. In 1972, the company itself produced dressers, stone chisels, steel chisels, wrecking bars, cutters for flagstones, roof tiles, tiles and plasterboard, wood chisels, tools for sculptors, wood turners, modellers, etc. The company's sales figures had risen by 150% in just 5 years, and this was not only because of the quality of its products some of which were protected by patents, but also because of the company's sustained sales drive both in France and abroad. MULLER sold its products into over 60 countries, primarily Canada and the USA. Muller decided to invest in a new forge to meet growing demand.

Across the generations

Jacques Muller retired and handed over the management to his two sons. Jean-Paul Muller was appointed Chief Executive Officer to direct the sales and administrative department while Alfred Muller was appointed Managing Director to direct the technical department.

The MULLER logo

The MULLER logo made its debut in the late 60s. From then on all the tools were sold under the MULLER brand.

Acier et outillage Peugeot

"PEUGEOT and Co." became "Peugeot steel and tools". It had eight subsidiaries: SEDIS, Maillard Salins, Goldenberg, Lurem, C.IM., Forges de Lavieu, M.I.R / International, Forges de Montecheroux. The "Peugeot Brothers saw and hand tool" catalogue now contained a very wide selection of tools: Handsaws, wood saws, log saws, band saws, trade-specific saws, circular saws, blades and saws...Wrenches: adjustable wrenches, tube wrenches, socket wrenches...Hammers, screwdrivers, trowels and filesWood cutting tools: chisels, mortise chisels, gouges, plane ironsBit holders, hand braces and sets of tools: tool boxes, tool bags...Cultivation tools, digging forks, manure forks, rakes and garden tools in stainless steel.

J.MULLER S.A.

The cottage industry was turned into a limited company - J.MULLER S.A. Jacques Muller headed up the company. Company development made a spurt and the range of forged tools expanded. At the time the tools were sold under the ALCHROM brand.

Investment

Jacques Muller succeeded his father-in-law, Mr Scharwaechter at the helm of the business. He invested in a first building at Molsheim and equipped it with forge hammers, grinders, a quenching bath and polishing machines.

The beginning of hand tools

The firm specialised in forged tools and wood chisels, also went in for the manufacture of hand tools for construction work.

Gold medal and Bronze Palm award

Alfred Scharwaechter entered the national contest "Best craftsman of France" and won the Gold Medal and Bronze Palm award

Gamme d'outils mécaniques

PEUGEOT and Co. marketed a range of mechanical tools, electrical tools and flexible shaft tools. For metal: filing, grinding, deburring, polishing machines.For wood: sawing machines, routers, planers, sanders.For stone: cutters, polishers, moulding tools, bevelling tools

Premiers outillages électriques.

First electrical tools launched.Mechanical tools and PEUGINOX steel made their appearance. The lion logo was changed to meet advertising trends, in particular for trade fairs. This took place in the Valentigney plant's advertising department.

The Muller enterprise is born

Alfred Scharwaechter became self-employed after working for many years for Couleaux, the tool manufacturer. The first sculptor's tools were produced at Molsheim under the SCHARWAECHTER brand, signed with an oak leaf.

Début du siècle

The Valentigney plant produced 1,000,000 saw blades and 1,200 tonnes of various grades of steel per year (chains and steel tubing for bicycles, motor bikes... plus a complete range of different types of springs, gramophones...)The Beaulieu plant produced 20,000 bicycles per year.The Terre Blanche plant produced: 350,000 coffee grinders, 800 000 garden forks, 1,000,000 chisels, mortise chisels, pliers, shears, various forged tools and 1,300,000 plane irons every year.Woodworking was also extremely important. Bases for coffee grinders, frames for saws and plane irons, handles for numerous tools, cabinets and boxes for sets of tools, and the famous Peugeot hand carts were also made.

1890 - 1896

1890: The first Peugeot-brand gasoline-driven quadricycle with a Daimler engine was made in Valentigney. 1896: Armand Peugeot who believed in the future of the bicycle and then the automobile, founded Peugeot Automobiles for the manufacture of lorries and private cars

Usine de Valentigney

The Valentigney plant then employed more than 700 workers, producing:- 25,000 to 30,000 large saws- 400,000 small saws- 100,000 frame saws

La marque du Lion déposée

Added to Peugeot saw blades from 1850 onwards, the Peugeot lion was officially registered as a trade mark on 20th November 1858 with the Imperial Science and Technology Department. The lion was originally designed for saw blades only, but its use spread to all the other tools produced by Peugeot Bros.

Naissance du Lion

The history of the lion began in 1847, when Jules and Emile Peugeot commissioned Justin Blazer, a Montbéliard goldsmith and engraver, to design a "logo" to be used as a trademark on the tools they produced, beginning with their saws. The two brothers had very firm ideas on the subject. They asked Justin Blazer to design a lion (already present on the county coat of arms) to symbolise the three main qualities of Peugeot blades: the strength of the teeth, like the lion's, the suppleness of the blade, like the lion's back, and the speed with which they cut: with the rapidity of a lion as it springs into action, Justin Blazer submitted many designs and they chose the profile of a lion walking along an arrow.

Outillage à main et moulins à café

Médaille d'or

The Sous-Roches plant was awarded the gold medal at the Paris Exhibition, for their straight and circular saws. This meant that the Peugeot Terre-Blanche establishment did not win a medal that year

Peugeot Frères Ainés

In 1832, the company changed it name to become "Peugeot Frères Ainés". Jean-Pierre Peugeot's sons developed the family firm and began construction of the Terre Blanche plant, installing forges, tilt-hammers, and all the other equipment required for making forged tools for joiners, carpenters, woodturners...

Fusion

The Sous-Cratet plant merged with the Valentigney plant. The Valentigney plant, on the banks of the river Doubs, was to be devoted to hot rolling. Its main production would be large saws.

Les débuts de l'exportation

Appreciated for their quality, Peugeot products were then exported to Switzerland, Italy, Turkey ...

Médaille d'argent

At the Central Exhibition at the Louvre, "Peugeot Frères & Co." were awarded a silver medal for their saw blades and other laminated iron and steel articles.

Nouveauté : Les cylindres de laminage

Fritz, Frederic's eldest son, began a new way of manufacturing saw blades, replacing the peening process with rolling. A patent was filed for the manufacture of hot-rolled and cold-rolled saws plus the saw blade straightening, flattening and annealing machine. A new age dawned for the manufacture of Peugeot tools.

Médaille d'or de première classe

The National Industry Encouragement Society awarded Peugeot saws a first class gold medal for their quality and low prices.

Peugeot Frères Ainés et Jacques Maillard-Salins

In 1810, two brothers, Jean-Pierre and Jean-Frederic Peugeot, with Jacques Maillard-Salins, created a steel foundry and saw blade factory. The new company's name was "Peugeot Frères Ainés & Jacques Maillard-Salins". The family firm thus created was in the Sous-Cratet mill in Hérimoncourt, near Montbéliard.