Emile PIQUEREZ invented his famous pressurised greasing system, with a simple hook-on connection, and gave it the name of “TECHLA”.
Joseph CHRISTE, on his side, made an agreement with the “ALEMIT” Company in the United States of America, by which the PIQUEREZ patents were passed on to this Company for the Americas, in exchange for their own greasing patents with bayonet connections, for Europe.
This is the starting point of the TECALEMIT Company, whose offices, stores, workshops and service-station were set up, by the two founders, 18 rue Brunel in Paris in may 1922.
The name “TECALEMIT”, emanating from “TECHLA” and “ALEMITE”, was to remind users of pressurised greasing systems that both makes could be found at TECALEMIT.
Car owners came by the hordes to change their grease nipples in 15 to 20 minutes at a cost of under 100 francs.
But TECALEMIT did not stop there. From the grease pump with a flexible hose and hook-on connector, they progressed to the push-type pump with rigid pipe and articulated connector, then to Lub and Zerk greasings, and finally to the even more elaborate system which now equips almost all vehicles and machines in the world : the “hydraulic” system.
In 1946 came the “TECALEMIT” rubber hoses with swaged fittings, then in 1950, the “TECALEMIT AEROQUIP” flexible hoses with reusable fittings and finally in 1961, the tubes and hoses in superpolyamide and polyurethane, which were produced in the factory in Orly.
In 1972, a factory, specially dedicated to these productions was built in Blois, where the activities of TECALEMIT FLEXIBLES®, name registered in 1980, were located avenue de Chateaudun.