CREATION OF THE COMPANY IN 1926

MIL’S finds its origin with former employees of a company called SLIM (Societe Lyonnaise d’Industrie Mécanique) which started its activity by the manufacture of car engines and complete cars. Lyon, France in the 1900’s was famous for its engineering industry.
Then, a SLIM’s shareholder decided to create its own company by reversing the name. He founded MIL’S in 1926 for Manufacture Industrielle Lyonnaise de Surpresseurs (= Industrial manufacturer of blowers from Lyon).

FIRST, COMPRESSORS FOR THE INDUSTRY

With the experience acquired in the conception of combustion engines, Adolphe THEVENIN designed the first piston compressor which was also used as a vacuum pump.
The first applications of the company were industrial ones.

THEN, DEVELOPMENT OF A VACUUM MEDICAL RANGE

MIL’S become interested in the medical market, and developed then a specific range of vacuum, air and oxygen production systems.
The 4th generation of the family is still implicated in the company’s management which has since grown to an international level.

HUMAN RESSOURCES

A hundred of people is taking part in the development of our different activities.
Our different collaborators include a network of distributors and approved installers, a team of salesmen, two sales offices. These two agencies enable us to satisfy more and- more-demanding national and international customers by integrating and respecting necessary quality criteria for a modern company.

EQUIPMENT RESSOURCES

TWO PRODUCTION SITES NEAR LYON

Two production sites of 12500 m² capacity located in Genas (suburb of LYON), with :

MIL’S (Head office)

15 rue de Genève
69746 GENAS Cedex
FRANCE
tél : +33 (0) 4 72 78 00 40
fax : +33 (0) 4 78 00 82 34
sales@mils.fr0