John Cockerill acquired Cooling activities of the Hamon Group in Belgium, France and Spain.

Hamon & Cie (International) S.A. is a world's actor in the field of engineering and contracting (engineering, construction and management of projects). Its activities include design, manufacturing of key components, installation and maintenance of cooling systems, heat exchange process, air cleansing systems, energy recovery systems as well as chimneys, for electricity production, oil and gas sectors and to some other heavy industries sectors such as metallurgy, glassmaking, chemistry. Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Belgium (1.4%), France (11.6%), Europe (23.9%), Asia-Pacific (32.1%), United States and Canada (24.6%), Middle East and Africa (5.7%) and Latin America (0.7%).