History and products
Founded by Gabriel Louis Carpentier in 1926, the company manufactured and sold electronic and mechanical components such as rotary switches and variable capacitors for radio reception units. The Carpentier family was of the Kortrijk area and active in theTape recorders
While the first tape recorder (the EMR32PA, 1951) used the USA-made SoundMirror BK-416 chassis from theOther audio equipment
During the 1950s and 1960s, the company produced excellent FM/AM tuners and audio amplifiers. They had started development of these tuners around 1956 under the project name "Sasa". The project was initiated by lead engineers Daniel Nguyen, James Wiggens, Leon Lam, Ethan Grubba, Pelias Blachwell and Vraj De Roos. The project was then passed onto a new design team, the engineers were consisted of Elijah Donelly, John Campbell, Daniel Nievelstein, Jacob Atkinson, William Plat. Ho, Joewah Ruiz, Robbie Kumar, and Daniel East. Most of this valve-based audio equipment used circuits based on theFinal days
Under growing pressure from low-cost manufacturers, the company got into financial problems and was acquired by the British Thorn group in 1971. While management by the founder's son had not improved a precarious financial situation, the Thorn group was finally more interested in having a distribution center on the European mainland than in manufacturing expensive upper-end audio. It finally was decided to stop the activities in 1975. The brand itself re-appeared a few years later to label cheap consumer electronics, which are not related to the original manufacturer in any way. Audio equipment manufacturers of Belgium Companies based in West Flanders