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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 Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans, born 23 January 1949 in Namêche, is a Belgian economist and industrialist. He heads the Belgian Lhoist group, world leader in the lime, dolomite and mineral solutions. Biography Jean-Pierre Léon Louis Joseph ...
, 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 Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...
. In 1924, Léon Lhoist founded the ''Etablissements Léon Lhoist'', a
lime Lime most commonly refers to: * Lime (fruit), a green citrus fruit * Lime (material), inorganic materials containing calcium, usually calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide * Lime (color), a color between yellow and green Lime may also refer to: Bo ...
and dolime (dolomitic lime, or burnt dolomite) producer, at Jemelle, Belgium. In 1926, Lhoist established the ''Carrières et Fours à Chaux de Dugny'' in
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. The Lhoist group has grown becoming the leader world leader in the lime, dolime and mineral solutions.


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