History
In 1913, three craftsmen set up a workshop in Seurre in the Burgundy region of France to supply prosthetists and orthotists with forged and wooden parts. Thanks to the presence of the Saône, a nearby river, they had a ready supply of all the willow they needed. 
The Clarke firm took over this workshop in 1916 and streamlined production to meet the needs of the amputees of World War One.
Then the company Leon Marx - an orthopaedics firm with branches in the main French towns - acquired Clarke and used the workshop in Burgundy as its main manufacturing center.
The company was taken over in 1943 by the grandfather of the PROTEOR Group's current Chairman and CEO, Michel Pierron, and in 1949 the company was renamed PROTEOR, in reference to prosthetics and orthopaedics.
1953 was a milestone in the company's history with the setting up of a research department and the start of the industrial design of components to be used by prosthetists and orthotists.
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| The company began exporting in 1976 and thus laid the foundations for its development worldwide.
The PROTEOR Group came into being in subsequent years, through the takeover of an orthopaedic fitting firm in Luxembourg, and then through acquisitions and start-ups in the Czech Republic, in Canada and more recently in Vietnam and in China. At the same time, it has extended its range of operations.
In 1996 PROTEOR begin to implementing its quality insurance plan. Thanks to our ongoing efforts in terms of making improvements to our products and services, our operations have received ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485 certification.
Today the PROTEOR Group employs more than 670 people who provide products and services to patients, prosthetists, orthotists and healthcare professionals. |
