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Hainaut-Sambre
Hainaut-Sambre was a Belgian group of steel companies based in the Charleroi region, it was founded in 1955 by the merger of Usine Métallurgiques du Hainaut (based in Couillet, Charleroi), and the metal making division of "Sambre et Moselle" (based in Montignies-sur-Sambre, Charleroi).
The company absorbed another Charleroi based steel group "Thy-Marcinelle et Providence" in 1980 before being merged with the Liege based steel group Cockerill in 1981 to form Cockerill-Sambre.
Cockerill-Sambre
Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing (province of Liège), on the Meuse River, and in Charleroi, on the shore of the Sambre River.
The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups; Cockerill based in Seraing (Liege province), and Hainaut-Sambre based in Charleroi in the province of Hainaut; both being the result of post second world war consolidations of the Belgian steel industry.
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