Faymonville Group is a trailer and heavy

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equipment manufacturer operating worldwide. Started back in the 1960s in Rocherath,

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as a

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shop later started to manufacture and sell agriculture machines and

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cabins in 1962 opened a new production unit to fulfill the demand of

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vehicles. In the late 1960s, the company manufactured its first

semi-trailer A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. In the United States, the term is also used to refer to the combination of a truck and a semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer. A large proportion of a semi-trailer's weight is supported by a trac ...

. 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

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and

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while having its headquarters in Luxembourg. 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. In 2017 Faymonville group acquired Cometto which is a leading player in SPMT and industry transporter manufacturing. With Faymonville as primary brand.

History

The brand started as a blacksmith shop in a village, Rocherath,

. 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

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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

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, 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.

Brands

* 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

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s, having 2 to 6 axles. The range includes normal

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, lowbed trailers and

flatbed trailer A semi-trailer is a trailer without a front axle. In the United States, the term is also used to refer to the combination of a truck and a semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer. A large proportion of a semi-trailer's weight is supported by a tracto ...

Products

* MAX100 * MAX200 * MAX300 * MAX410 * MAX510 * MAX600

Faymonville

Faymonville brand is specialized in manufacturing and selling specialized and unconventional trailers for

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transportation, which can handle 60 to 500 ton of payload. The brand is well around the world for its extendable trailers and

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sProducts

Global

* MegaMAX * GigaMAX * VarioMAX * VarioMAX Plus * MultiMAX * MultiMAX Plus * ModulMAX * CombiMAX * TeleMAX * CargoMAX * TimberMAX * FlexMAX * FloatMAX * PrefaMAX

North America

* MegaMAX-US * TeleMAX-US * MultiMAX-US * HighwayMAX * DualMAX

Cometto

Enterprise at Vandenberg AFB SLC-6 - DF-ST-86-09417

Started in 1954 as workshop for vehicles,

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and systems in the name of Officine Cometto at

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. 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.

Products

* MSPE * ECO1000/1500 * ModulMAX SP-E * BladeMAX * SYT * ETH/ETL * MTH

References

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History

Brands

MAX trailers

Products

Faymonville

Global

North America

Cometto

Products

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