André Emerit, the inventor of ASPIVENIN®, was born in Décazeville in the Aveyron department of France. The last of 8 children, he first learned to create as a model maker, thanks to a warm and living material: wood. He acquired from this a love of workmanship and the image of a hand which transforms the idea!
Then followed a full and rich life, that of a man with a mission to serve his fellow man. Forced into labour in Germany during World War II, he refused, was denounced and lived in hiding throughout the war while helping to bring up his brothers and sisters.
After the war he started a career as an inventor, making prototypes and devices of all kinds for different laboratories and for scientific departments of schools.
"The hand transforms the idea." This sentence accompanied him all his life and led him, at 65, to apply his talent and creativity to an apparently crazy challenge which he successfully met: the ASPIVENIN® adventure. Absolute simplicity and genius were required to invent the mini-pump. André Emerit was one of the few decorated with the Lepine Contest to have succeeded in transforming this recognition into an industrial success, since he knew the importance of image in the life of a company.
André Emerit died in Sannois on January 3 1997 in his 85th year. He was a man well-balanced between thought and action, the Idea and the Hand which transforms. Today, Michel Emerit, his son, who participated in the development of the company, has succeeded him.
Then followed a full and rich life, that of a man with a mission to serve his fellow man. Forced into labour in Germany during World War II, he refused, was denounced and lived in hiding throughout the war while helping to bring up his brothers and sisters.
After the war he started a career as an inventor, making prototypes and devices of all kinds for different laboratories and for scientific departments of schools.
"The hand transforms the idea." This sentence accompanied him all his life and led him, at 65, to apply his talent and creativity to an apparently crazy challenge which he successfully met: the ASPIVENIN® adventure. Absolute simplicity and genius were required to invent the mini-pump. André Emerit was one of the few decorated with the Lepine Contest to have succeeded in transforming this recognition into an industrial success, since he knew the importance of image in the life of a company.
André Emerit died in Sannois on January 3 1997 in his 85th year. He was a man well-balanced between thought and action, the Idea and the Hand which transforms. Today, Michel Emerit, his son, who participated in the development of the company, has succeeded him.
