Who we are
Chronology of the Hubert Cloix company
Since 1973, the Hubert Cloix company has been supporting you on a daily basis in cooking your creams and strapping your ice creams.
Over the years, we have enriched our range of products and completed our catalog to better serve you every day.
Thanks to our integrated design office and the internalization of our manufacturing processes, we control the quality and performance of the machines produced in our workshops.
The acquisition of the Autofrigor brand allowed us to consolidate our position in the agri-food sector.
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Hubert Cloix graduated from HEC Paris. Promo: 1946
Graduating from HEC Paris in 1946, Hubert began his professional career in the family sawmills in Nièvre then running a plumbing company in Paris (Roussey house).
1956
Mr. Hubert Cloix takes over the general management of Autofrigor
At the request of one of his classmates from HEC who is an auditor, he carries out an audit of the Autofrigor company and submits a report to improve financial performance. At the end of the presentation of his report, he is offered a position as general director.
1971
Creation of the first ice cream maker under the Rousset brand
1973
Creation of the company Hubert Cloix
The demand is significant enough that we are considering creating a separate entity.
Hubert Cloix, the founder, first asked himself the question of finding a brand name. He consulted a communications agency in Paris, which suggested his own name as a brand: “The Hubert Cloix company was born in June 1973”.
1982
Manufacture of the first pastocooker to reach + 120 ° C
The recruitment of a technical director from the industry, as well as the arrival of Jean-Loup, Hubert's son, allows us to explore innovative components that stand out from established standards. We have achieved a real feat by designing the first pastocooker capable of reaching 120°C during cooking.
1986
Marketing of a range of 240 liter pastocookers for various applications
Since 1986, the Hubert Cloix company, in particular thanks to Jean-Loup, has been very present and received numerous user feedback.
The machines are improved to gain speed and efficiency to meet market needs.
After several requests for a larger pressure cooker, the design office is examining the possibility of integrating a 240 liter tank into the catalog.
1992
Hubert's son Jean-Loup Cloix takes over the company and brings his technical expertise to offer high-performance machines
Since the start of the company, Jean-Loup worked in the workshop on the pastocooker assembly line, then part-time in the commercial and technical sectors. Thanks to his refrigeration engineering diploma and his technical skills, Jean-Loup formally took over the company after a period of transition with his father Hubert.
2004
Addition of a PLC on all the machines to control the programs
Roger Monchi joins the Hubert Cloix company to bring a new industrial vision. PLCs are solid and efficient electronic components. Roger suggests to Jean-Loup to install automatons to improve human-machine interaction. The modernization of the range is taking place gradually.
2019
XNUMX Appointment of Maximilien Cloix, Hubert's grandson, at the head of the company
Maximilien started working for the company in 2012 as a multi-skilled manufacturing worker. Following the resumption of studies and obtaining a master's degree, he acquired solid knowledge and took over the company at the beginning of 2019, with the support of his father, Jean-Loup, who ensures that operations run smoothly.
2021
Launch of the tactile range on multifunction machines and eventually on the entire range
Launch of the project to switch to a touch screen.
2022
Relocation of the Hubert Cloix company to Lognes
Since the beginning of the 80s, we had 600 square meters of workshops and offices. Managing this space required a lot of effort. In 2024, it was necessary to move to ensure the growth of the Hubert Cloix company. This will be done in 2022 with the acquisition of a 2000 square meter premises near Disneyland Paris.
Death of our founder Hubert Cloix
Unfortunately, in 2022, our founder died at the age of 97, surrounded by his family, especially his son Jean-Loup until the end. His legacy will live on so he can be proud of our actions up there.
2023
Consolidation of Hubert Cloix's market shares through the purchase of the company auto fridge
Maximilien decides to buy the Autofrigor company in homage to his grandfather.
This is the opportunity to offer new equipment on the bakery and pastry market and to maintain after-sales service on the Autofrigor machine fleet, which is still very present.
2024
100% of the range in premium touch screen
All our machines are equipped with the most high-end touch screen on the market.
Our commitments
CSR approach
In 2022, we joined a program funded by the BPI to integrate the corporate social responsibility (CSR) in small and medium-sized French businesses. This program allowed us to understand that we were already implementing resource efficiency, and showed us areas for improvement in order to reduce our impact on environment and to further integrate thehuman aspect at the heart of the company's value creation.
We firmly believe in the importance of learning and training to improve your daily life, at any age.
We are committed to supporting schools to help students develop their skills with the best equipment.
Educational commitment
Our goal: to facilitate everyday life in food service laboratories!
We support you in your development projects, takeover, creation, diversification of activity. In fact, in France, we manufacture equipment (pasto cookers, ice cream makers, coolers and pasteurizers) for food professionals (pastry chefs, ice cream makers, chocolatiers, caterers, collective catering, industry, etc.). The applications of our equipment are varied:
- Pastry creams, custards, lemon curds, chocolate temperings, fruit jellies, Béchamel creams or even soups… Our equipment meets various needs:
- Facilitate and reduce the work of teams
- Improve bacteriological and hygienic quality
- Predict production peaks
- Reduce hardware incidents
A word from Hubert Cloix (1924 – 2022), founder of the company:
“The launch of the Hubert Cloix company is a very beautiful story.
If its creation is due to a combination of circumstances, its development is all the more impressive.
The war was raging as I finished my studies at HEC Paris. After returning to work for some time with my father, I took over the management of the Rousset company, but in parallel and above all, that of Autofrigor, a French company manufacturing and installing refrigeration equipment, which was bankrupt at the time.
I accept this new challenge and turn the company around, increasing the sale of machines from 12 per year to over 122.
I left this company on a very positive balance, five years after my arrival and decided to create my own structure, always in the same field.
In 1973, Hubert Cloix was born. I find a room of 200 square meters in Saint Maur des Fossés, avenue de Plaisance. This room will quickly become too small, and the company will then move to the premises it occupied until 2022.
Over time, we have grown and diversified our business. In addition to ice cream machines, we have started to market pasteurizers for custard, caviar, or eggs, or pastocookers.
If we initially used subcontractors for stainless steel sheet metal, we then integrated everything into our own process.
Every year, we want to stay ahead of all possible progress and file patents with the INPI to protect our inventions. Unfortunately, not everything is patentable, and some of our competitors will copy what we thought.
In 1992, I retired and entrusted the management of the Hubert Cloix company to my son, Jean-Loup Cloix. Under his leadership, the company is moving in the right direction: increasing the capacity of the machines, integrating automatic control panels and installing new machines.
June 18, 2012 marks a new milestone for the company. My grandson, Maximilien Cloix, son of Jean-Loup, joined the company and began to train. He learns the whole process of manufacturing the machines, as well as the first demonstrations to customers.
On January 1, 2019, Jean-Loup handed over his position as CEO to Maximilien, now at the head of the Hubert Cloix company.
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