A hundred and eighteen years of one material

Maurice Demeyere founded a family cookware business in Antwerp in 1908. The firm spent its first half-century working metal the traditional way, one product at a time, before stainless steel changed everything in the early 1960s.

In 1963 Demeyere switched to stainless and developed the Silvinox surface treatment, which keeps the steel bright and makes it easier to clean. Four years later the Classica range delivered the company’s first multilayer pots. The direction was set: build cookware like a laminate, not like a sheet.

Induction came next. Demeyere started developing materials for induction hobs in the late 1970s, before most households had seen one. TriplInduc, introduced in the late 1980s, made stainless cookware work on every cooktop and put up to 30% more energy into the pan on induction.

The 1990s added the InductoSeal capsule base with a copper core, giving saucepans even finer control over heat. In 2002 the Atlantis collection arrived, shaped by Belgian designer Koen De Winter, and became the line everything else is measured against. Since 2008 Demeyere has been part of the Zwilling J.A. Henckels group, alongside Staub, Miyabi and Ballarini.

Nothing about the address changed. The stainless lines are still produced in Belgium, and every pan still passes through the same factory before it earns the name.