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Updated Oct 10, 2022

POCLAIN FOUNDATION

GENERATION TWO

The Fondation-Poclain stand at the INTERMAT 2009 exhibition

PRESIDENT EDITORIAL

After a particularly painful end of the year for our Foundation with the disappearances of Philippe FRITZ (Vice-President) and Gérard LEMANCHEC (Treasurer), our Board of Directors met in extraordinary session to renew the vacant positions.

At the end of the debates and after votes, the new composition of the Board of Directors common to Génération Deux and the Poclain Foundation is made up as follows:

President: Mr.Dominique SMAGUINE
Vice President: Mr.Daniel LAUGEROTTE
Secretary: Ms.Elise BOURBOIN
Assistant Secretary: Mr.Claude HAIN
Treasurer: Mr.Alain KLEKOT
Assistant Treasurer: Mr.Daniel LAUGEROTTE

Other members and sectors of activity:

Workshop: Mr.Guy LAUDIJOISand M.Albert DELAIVE
Technical information: Mr.Bernard Kellerand M.Jean-Claude LOGEROT
Events/exhibitions: Mr.Daniel BACONNETand M.Roger FAUCHEUX
Communications: Mr.Jacques PARAINand M.Daniel LAUGEROTTE

Generation Two and the Poclain Foundationcontinue their adventure and count on your support to carry out their missions.

Add to that the continuation of our work to digitize the archives and the launch of this new, more user-friendly and interactive website so that we can keep in touch with this beautiful “Poclain” family to which you belong.

President

Dominique Smaguine

WHAT IS THE POCLAIN FOUNDATION?

Why a Foundation?It was important to be able to open up to everyone the heritage of a company that has made the ingenuity and entrepreneurial capacity of its founder known throughout the world.Georges BATTLEand his successors.

The company no longer exists, but its international dimension has been such that it is not possible to forget it.

This is why the associationGENERATION TWO and the TOWN HALL of Plessis Bellevillewished to associate their efforts in the constitution of a FOUNDATION.

GENERATION TWOan association initially set up to help the executives of the company find a job during a difficult period for Poclain, and then became the guarantor of the know-how and the entrepreneurial spirit of its retired executives, it began to bring together a part of the Poclain archives in the form of documents, films, photos, recovered or objects of endowments of the many employees who have worked in the company.

A large part of the archives could be saved when the company CASE, buyer of Poclain, left the premises of Plessis Belleville, an agreement was reached withGENERATION TWOin order to be able to recover the photo library, and part of the microfilmed archives of the design office, documents destined for destruction.

Many volunteers have joined in this constitution of various archives, and cIt is this heritage that we want to open up, share and make available to everyone.

To materialize the agreement to create the Foundation, the Town Hall of Le Plessis Belleville has made available to us a room intended exclusively to receive the archives thus constituted, making it possible to enhance them and make them accessible to those who wish.

The Foundation has also undertaken the restoration of equipment, and allows those who so wish to access the technical archives to restore their own equipment.

AN EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED!

Big meeting on May 21 and 22, 2022, aALBON (DROME), the association "PASSION GEAR"organized its exhibition of "old" equipment on the site of the quarry"DELMONICO DOREL"where thePOCLAIN FOUNDATIONwas present.

This exceptional event brought together almosttotality from the range of Poclain machines from theCK35 to CK 1000. Unique opportunity to see all these machines in action, because the vocation of our friends "ENGINS PASSION" is to restore life and appearance to all these machines in good working order.

Show that a presented also many other size and brand construction machinery different.

For those who wished, the POCLAIN FOUNDATION had organized transport by tourist bus departing from LE PLESSIS BELLEVILLE on Friday May 20 at 11:00 p.m., with arrival on site on Saturday morning around 8:00 a.m.

Day dedicated to visiting the site, around the Poclain range and the Foundation stand.

Thousands of spectators during these two days, an undeniable success, testimony to the interest and passion of lovers of public works equipment, old machines which are so many memories for all those who from far or near had the opportunity to meet the world of public works.