Les Filières Brussin, quality and reactivity since 1892
The company Les Filières Brussin owes its notoriety over 130years of professionalism in the research and designing of its drawing dies.
Today our family company is still rooted in the Trevoux area,the cradle of the drawing die.
Trévoux: the world capital of drawing die
Located in the heart of the Auvergne Rhone Alpes region, 25 kms from Lyon, Trevoux was the birth-place of the drawing die trades.
In the XV century, it became the capital city of the principality of the dombes where gold wiredrawers were exempted from royal taxes.
Benefitting there of advantageous fiscal conditions,they inundated Europe with their golden and silver wires.
In 1762 Trevoux became French and lost his privileges, however the tradition of drawing was maintened.
The metal wire obtained in the past by hammering from then drawn through harder and harder materials (wood, iron, steel, ruby then sapphire).
In 1865 Trevoux the first drawing die in natural die was pierced and gave the town a technical superiority wich will make of Trevoux the world capital of drawing die.
In the 1920’s the drawing die makers shipped in the all world.
Trevoux kept the monopoly of the drawing die until WW2.
Les Filières Brussin: a family story
Since 1892 from father to son each one maintains the familial know-how bringing in his share of progress and innovation in a constantly involving profession.
Since 2020 Jeremy Brussin son of Pierre, has kept family continuity with the objective of :
« Constantly trying to better services in order to satisfy our clients.
He founded the company
Benoit’s son took his succession.
Fleury’s son and Robert’s brother settled in Trevoux.
Following the accidental death of Jean in 1958, Robert who managed the company in Les abrets, took over the head of the factory in Trevoux and merged both production sites.
He introducted PCDs and developped new processes, among which laser drilling (1965-1970).
Pierre and his sister Michele, Robert’s son and daughter took over the management and kept technical innovation by bringing new machines and improving laser drilling.
They provides the company with internal softwares dedicated to the conception and elaboration our products.
Michele and her brother Pierre put in place a quality system in 1994 along with a complete tracability system of drawing dies (by menas of bar code)
