Based in Béthune, Northern France, POITTEMILL AND FORPLEX are engineering companies specializing in providing fine-grinding solutions, powder processing and preparation from laboratory to industrial scale. As we design and install our own equipment, we have been able to provide installations
for more than 100 years that are tailor-made to customer requirements.
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Advantages and Benefits
Why choose us for a grinding or classifying project?

Turn-key Management
Thanks to our teams, We manage globally your grinding or classifying project, from the first phone call or e-mail to the installation and comissionning of your plant.

Laboratory & Test Centre
Unique in France, the laboratory and test centre are fully equipped to respond to the requirements of our
different customers in the fields of grinding, crushing and micronization of raw materials.

Thousands of grinding references
With our experience and past projects we are able to identify thousands of grinding and classifying references, by product analyzing and testing.

Experience and Sustainability
Family-run company for three generations that evolves hand-in-hand with its’ customers, with more than 100 years of experience and expertise.
Our expertise
Powdering the globe
POITTEMILL and FORPLEX were respectively founded in 1933 and 1911.
Over the decades, Poittemill and Forplex appears among the best world references in the field of powders engineering, grinding and classification.
Our know-how allowed us to develop custom-made solutions to answer the most effectively possible for needs, problems and requirements of our customers.
Our know-how allowed us to develop custom-made solutions to answer the most effectively possible for needs, problems and requirements of our customers.

Our knowhow and expertise allows us to propose the best solution for your project.
100+

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Grinding or classifying (or both) installations worldwide, for any applications.
7000

INSTALLATIONS
More than 80% of the group sales come from export. Its one of our best advantages.
80

EXPORT MARKET (%)
We have installations all around the world, from Europe to Asia and the Middle-East.
125+

COUNTRIES
Our worldwide presence