Paul-François Huart-Chapel (1770–1850), was a Belgian industrialist, and politician. He was born in

Charleroi Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.

. He married Mary Chapel, the daughter of an industrialist. In 1806 he inherited the factories of the Chapel family. He introduced a

reverbatory furnace A reverberatory furnace is a metallurgical or process furnace that isolates the material being processed from contact with the fuel, but not from contact with combustion gases. The term ''reverberation'' is used here in a generic sense of ''re ...

for melting metal in 1807, in 1821 the first

Puddling furnace Puddling is the process of converting pig iron to bar (wrought) iron in a coal fired reverberatory furnace. It was developed in England during the 1780s. The molten pig iron was stirred in a reverberatory furnace, in an oxidizing environment, ...

in Belgium (with J.M. Orban). Shortly after John Cockerill had built the first blast furnace in Belgium in Liege, he built a coke fired blast furnace in 1827 in

Charleroi Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593.

, 12m high and producing 6 to 10tonnes of

pig iron Pig iron, also known as crude iron, is an intermediate product of the iron industry in the production of steel which is obtained by smelting iron ore in a blast furnace. Pig iron has a high carbon content, typically 3.8–4.7%, along with silic ...

a day. Between 1831 and 1834 he was Mayor of Charleroi. He died aged 80.

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Politicians from Charleroi Belgian industrialists Mayors of places in Belgium 1770 births 1850 deaths {{Wallonia-politician-stub