Léon Lhoist

Léon Lhoist was a Belgian businessman. In 1920, he married Claire Dumont, heiress of Hippolyte Dumont, industrialist in the sector of the extraction of lime and dolomite.https://www.7sur7.be/belgique/la-discrete-et-richissime-famille-lhoist-berghmans-qui-est-elle-et-comment-a-t-elle-construit-son-empire~ae260eac/ He had three children whose Elisabeth Lhoist is the mother of Jean-Pierre Berghmans, industrialist currently at the head of Lhoist group.

Biography

In 1889 Hippolyte Dumont, his father-in-law, established the Carrières et Fours à Chaux Dumont-Wautier, at Hermalle in Belgium. In 1924, Léon Lhoist founded the Etablissements Léon Lhoist, a lime and dolime (dolomitic lime, or burnt dolomite) producer, at Jemelle, Belgium. In 1926, Lhoist established the Carrières et Fours à Chaux de Dugny in France. The Lhoist group has grown becoming the leader world leader in the lime, dolime and mineral solutions.

Sources

[https://web.archive.org/web/20071214154858/http://www.nieuwsblad.be/GT/Index.aspx?genericId=293&articleId=GAD1HC2PM De vijfentwintig rijkste Vlamingen: brouwers boven]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071012012305/http://www.lhoist.com/frames/Frame_History/Frame_History.htm Lhoist group history]

Category:Belgian businesspeople