René PIERRET began with a blacksmith’s forge in 1925, in Corbion, in the hills above the Ardennes Semois, a river in the province of Luxemburg, Belgium.

He then began to manufacture cutting and packing machines for the well-known Semois tobacco industry.

In 1952, the 5 sons of Mr PIERRET designed and built a cutting machine for textile fibers and plastic materials, based on the tobacco-cutting technique.

PIERRET primarily specializes in the manufacture of cutting machines for textile and plastic materials as well as loaders for the automatic feeding of production lines.

The range of PIERRET machines enables the specific requirements of users all over the world to be met, especially in the areas of textile recycling, opening, crushing, extrusion, conditioning, incineration, volume reduction, …

PIERRET has a reputation for producing original and efficient machines, and for the creative way in which they solve their customers’ problems.  PIERRET is now active in more than 50 countries.