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THE LATTY GROUP CELEBRATES ITS 100TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR
A century of research and innovation|Created in 1920, the family business managed by Mr. ChristianXavier Latty, grandson of the founder is now, a century later, the French market leader in industrial sealing. Latty’s products ensure that complex industrial processes stay perfectly sealed and today have become indispensable in many sectors such as food processing, petrochemicals, mining and nuclear industries.
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he Latty Group has built a reputation for compliance with the strictest quality and safety regulations that guarantee product reliability, as well as for its solid know-how in the design and R&D of its sealing solutions and the constant evolution of its manufacturing processes. In a very competitive environment, Latty makes the difference by staying focussed on service and listening carefully to its customers, as only a medium-sized company can, while investing each year 5% of its turnover in research and development. In addition, the company has its own test laboratory enabling it to test its products under optimum conditions of use before market release or test them on the customers’ equipment for qualifications or approvals.
The Latty Group in France consists of a head office located in Orsay in the Paris region and a production site and R&D lab based in Brou in the Eure-et-Loir department. In addition to the sales force, made up of technical sales engineers and sales managers, more than 160 people at Latty work every day to serve its customers, not counting the highly responsive local network of around a hundred distributors, cutters and multi-service competence centres. The Latty Group makes a large part of its turnover by exporting through its 10 subsidiaries, some of which have their own manufacturing unit or multi-service competence centre. The medium-term objective is to increase its share in the export markets, in particular by creating new subsidiaries while maintaining the strong level of activity in France. In this context, the group has announced the opening of two new subsidiaries in India and Brazil. Mr. Latty speaks about the strengths of his company: “One of the Latty Group’s strong points is undoubtedly its ability to listen to its customers. Every business is different, every
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