Cousin Trestec
Rope manufacturer,
always more innovative
Located in the North of France, Cousin Trestec manufactures innovative ropes and braids.
With 170 years of experience, Cousin Trestec is a key player in the industry and leisure markets.
Innovative rope manufacturer, for high performances
Cousin Trestec is a rope manufacturer specialized in fibres transformation by spinning, cabling, braiding and coating since 1848.
Cousin Trestec is the reference on the rope market, with customers in various sectors, such as leisure and sport (yachting, climbing, caving, trekking, mountaineering, paragliding, kitesurfing...), safety (work at height, rescue, handling, events...), industrial (offshore, hoisting, automotive...) and military.
With the benefit of the expertise from the group and its sister companies (Cousin Biotech, Cousin Composites, Major Sport – Tecnifibre), Cousin Trestec offers solutions matching your needs and brings you all their know-how to manufacture quality and innovative products.
On top of our rigour and expectations for product design, we place your satisfaction in first place.
170 years of know-how and French quality
Cousin Trestec uses the best available raw materials to increase comfort, safety and performance: polyamide and high tenacity polyester, Technora®, Dyneema®, Twaron®, HMPE, Spectra®, Vectran® or the recent PBO®.
Cousin Trestec has not only an unmatched knowledge of the materials, but also the ability to combine all the technologies and to control perfectly the thermic treatments (stretch, shrinkage, stabilization, waterproofing) and coatings.
Cousin Trestec also designs your tailor-made products to your own specifications. Working with traditional know-how while mastering the high-tech fibres makes the Cousin Trestec hallmark.
Milestones
Foundation of COUSIN Frères, specialising in spinning and braiding line, cotton and hemp yarns.
Manufacturing of sewing threads and strings
1st rope-maker to use synthetic fibres.
1st products ranges dedicated to yachting and climbing.
Market Leader for paragliders and parachutes lines.
Market Leader for safety and access ropes.
CE marking.
COUSIN Frères creates a group with several subsidiaries for each activity - COUSIN Trestec, COUSIN Composites (rods and optic fibres) , COUSIN Biotech (medical implants), COUSIN Office (corporate general services).
Launch of the first range of lines for kitesurfing.
ISO 9001 Certification version 2000.
Dalle & Associés takes over COUSIN Trestec, COUSIN Composite and Major Sport.
Cousin Trestec develops Constrictor®, a new textile rope clutch which sets new standards in the sailing sector.
Cousin Trestec partners with "Souffle du Nord" with Thomas Ruyant and Adrien Hardy who made the 4th place in the IMOCA class at transat Jacques Vabre.
Cousin Trestec
Hot figures
30,000
km of ropes made each year
60,000
plaits necessary to the manufacture
170
years of experience
60
countries all over the world
80
mm diameter maximum
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MAY 2019 : Let’s meet at Deutsche Baumpflegetage trade show
From 7 to 9 May, we will exhibit at the Deutsche Baumpflegetage trade show in Augsburg (Germany). On booth A20, we will present our Tree Work ropes range. Come discover our Lignum 12.5 , Atrax 11.6 mm or Black Widow 12.2 mm. Alongside the Tree Care conference, the trade show has become the largest of its kind in Europe over […]
NOVEMBER 2018 : NEW YACHTING ROPES CATALOGUE
We are pleased to present our new catalog introducing our new range of yachting ropes. Discover our ropes for mooring and anchoring, halyards and sheets for dinghies and cruises, our lines for racing boats. For more information on our ranges do not hesitate to contact us via our contact form.
NOVEMBRE 2018 : VISIT OUR STAND P1.717 at METSTRADE SHOW
From 13 to 15 November 2018, the Cousin Trestec team will be glad to meet you at the Metstrade show in Amsterdam, the world’s largest trade exhibition of marine equipment, materials and systems. Our now famous Constrictor system will take place alongside our latest ropes : the Meridian and the Black Pearl. Waiting to see […]
Expoprotection 2018 : meet us at booth P30
EXPOPROTECTION 2018: FRANCE’S LEADING EXHIBITION FOR RISK PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT Already some 550 exhibitors have booked their stands, of whom about a hundred are first-time exhibitors and 43.5% are international. Expoprotection 2018 is significantly bigger than the previous edition, promising an even more specialised and varied offer unmatched in France.