The history of screening and birth of the company

An ancestral need to separate …

Since ancient times, humans have felt the need to sort materials or food by size. The origin of fragmentation or separation techniques coincides with the origin of human civilisation. Since prehistoric times, millstones have been used to crush grain.
When the first industries emerged, such as ceramic-making, the first grade sorting appeared to qualify the need for materials of different sizes: stone blocks, pebbles or powders. In the pottery trades, soil solutions were left to decant to extract clay.

Food requirements also led to ways of separating large from smaller grains, by sieving materials through crafted baskets. These were the first separations by screening. Methods have evolved through new equipment and the need to refine the sorting result through measuring tools; but still to this day, the most economically simple way to separate naturally involves a screen.

An entrepreneurial history

1962

Today

1924
1933
1951
1952
1959
1962
1991
1992
1997
1998
2012
2014

1924

Creation of the “Grillages Giron Colombes” company in Garenne-Colombes.
Manufacturing and installation of woven wire mesh fences.

1933

Specialisation in woven wire cloths for the mining industries
The first production in France of woven wire cloths made from high resistance steel wire

1951

Anti-clogging cloth patent (Ondap-Gomme)

1952

Anti-clogging cloth patent (Mixte-Gomme and Lonplan-Gomme)

1959

Awarded the “French Quality” label

1962

Complete decentralisation of the business to Chatellerault and name change to “Toile de criblage GIRON”

1991

Creation of the “GIRETHANE” subsidiary for the production of polyurethane screens in Meaux

1992

Patent of the modular T-key system

1997

Hybrid steel/polyurethane wire cloth patent
Decentralisation of the GIRETHANE subsidiary to Chatellerault and absorption of the subsidiary by GIRON

1998

Awarded ISO 9002 certification

2012

Awarded the “Living Heritage Business” label

2014

Awarded the “Guaranteed French Origin” label

 

A family history

4 generations working in industrial screening:

Henri GIRON, Arts & Métiers engineer1924 – 1963
Robert GIRON, Inventor of anti-clogging cloths1963 – 1991
Jean-Marc GIRON & Philippe CHARRIERE1991 – 2015
Arnaud YOUX & Nicolas CHARRIERE2015 – nowadays