SINCE 1947 THE LEFORT® BRAND HAS BEEN SYNONYMOUS WITH EXCELLENCE IN THE FIELD OF SCRAP METAL RECYCLING.
LEFORT® is a manufacturer of shears & balers for the scrap metal recycling industry.
Industrial excellence is the key strategy of LEFORT®. It is illustrated by full control over the development of our products but also throughout the entire manufacturing process, ensuring a long lasting quality to our equipment
Founded in 1947, the LEFORT® brand aims to engineer and manufacture robust, reliable and efficient machines while being adapted to the specific and demanding recycling industry. Each machine, which comes out of our factories, is the result of more than 75 years of experience and know-how, recognized worldwide. Our equipment is distributed through our own subsidiaries or in partnership with a network of official dealers guaranteeing a fast and efficient service.
For more than 75 years, LEFORT® machines have been manufactured using proven technologies and unique know-how acquired throughout our history.
Industrial excellence is the key strategy of LEFORT®. It is illustrated by full control over the development of our products but also throughout the entire manufacturing process, ensuring a long lasting quality to our equipment
LEFORT® has always been recognized as an innovative manufacturer using intelligent solutions and in step with the evolution of the scrap metal recycling market.
In Gosselies (Belgium), Nestor Lefort founds a small workshop specialising in manufacturing and maintaining hydraulic equipment. This workshop is the birthplace of the first above 7,300 psi hydraulic pumps.
Disposing of light scrap generated by small local factories is becoming a problem. Nestor Lefort registers patents and begins production of hydraulic balers to reduce the volume of waste metal.
Yvon Lefort, Nestor’s son, invents and manufactures the hydraulic alligator shear. A world first.
Yvon Lefort takes over from his father; drawing inspiration from his father’s long experience, he brings a new impetus to the enterprise.
The first mobile baler is built.
Creation of the first automatic guillotine shear, the GA 700.
Yvon Lefort patents the first toggle-action compression box.
Christian Lefort designs the 420T mobile shear: the first of an impressive family of mobile machines of all sizes that will go on to revolutionise the world of recycling.
New offices built, with facilities extended for the inauguration of two production lines.
Christian Lefort is appointed Managing Director of the LEFORT® Group.
LEFORT UK is created, the outcome of a successful 20 year partnership with the Chapman family.
A new hydraulic test bench is developed. Inauguration of a new factory manufacturing hydraulic cylinders. New facilities built with new offices for after-sales service.
The new Mobile 500T - serial number 1000 - leaves the LEFORT® factory.
The Midway is launched, in TS and BL versions.
The new Conkest shear is launched, the ideal solution for limited volume sites.
ISO 9001 Certification of LEFORT®.
Foundation of LEFORT America, based in Florida and LEFORT France, in Lyon.
LEFORT North America organises its first Demo Day, with a 1000 t cutting force mobile machine, which was then delivered to a customer in Oklahoma, USA
Launch of the TRAX© range, a self-propelled machine that generates major savings by minimising the need to move scrap on site.
Arrival of the new MTP800 shredder, marking LEFORT®’s official return to the shredder market.
First track-mounted mobile shredder with integrated power unit.
New range of “heavy” shears. A redesigned range that is more modern, faster and more robust than ever.
The first TRAX1100 (US version) sold near New York.
