CFI

Specialist in Refrigeration and Fermentation

Committed to the quality of our equipment, we have successfully established ourselves in the field of refrigeration for bakery and pastry products since 1979.

+40

years of experience

Our production site located in Lavaveix-les-Mines employs approximately 60 qualified and trained staff members who have mastered numerous techniques and technologies. We manufacture and market equipment for retarder proofing, storage, and blast freezing:

  • Water chillers and mixing dosers
  • Retarder proofer cabinets and rooms
  • Under-oven proofer
  • Direct fermentation proofer
  • Slow-rise retarder proofer room
  • Refrigerated pastry counters
  • Storage cabinets
  • Positive and negative temperature storage rooms
  • Negative temperature storage freezers with reach-in doors
  • Blast freezer/storage units with reach-in doors
  • Blast chillers and shock freezers
  • Roll-in blast chillers and shock freezers
  • Chocolate storage cabinet

Our history

1979

CFI started in Lavaveix-Les-Mines in a small workshop located near the station, where 8 employees, all shareholders of the company, carried out boilermaking activities. They mainly manufactured 30-meter-long molds for coating cables. Notably, it took nearly a month to manufacture a complete roll.

In parallel, the workers designed rooms and cabinets. At that time, only one room left the workshop per week since all stages were performed manually: each sheet of metal was notched with hand shears, then bent on both sides, passed through a single-stage injection press, and finally molded. Each panel was made one after the other before the whole unit was assembled; finally, the wiring and refrigeration settings were completed.

Gradually, the volume of rooms increased, and boilermaking was slowly phased out.

1984

Construction of the factory at its current location. The 11 employees discovered a brand-new building, which quickly proved to be too small. It was therefore expanded twice, requiring significant earthworks and excavation of the land.

1998

The company now belongs to T.M.F. Throughout this period, the CFI brand could no longer be used as it remained the property of Electrolux.

2004

CFI regained its momentum and decided to partner with Pavailler and Bertrand Puma to create SEBP, which was then acquired by the AGA group.

2007

The SEBP company, which includes CFI, joined the Italian group ALI.

2019

CFI celebrated its 40th anniversary in a festive atmosphere where a sense of pride and belonging resonated among all employees. This anniversary also marked the beginning of a new decade, promising to be rich in projects and innovation, notably thanks to the CFI for Climate label. The factory still has great resources to tap into!

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