The capital of the Centre, between steel and canal
La Louvière is the capital of the Centre. Coal created this slice of Hainaut, and the end of coal forced it to reinvent itself. Steel is still here: the local rolling mill remains one of the region's major industrial employers. Yet the bulk of the fabric today is a layer of SMEs orbiting it, in boilermaking, machining, maintenance, haulage and structural steel. Many of these subcontractors depend on two or three clients for their order book.
The town also has a history of its own. The Boch earthenware works live on in the Keramis museum, and the Canal du Centre keeps its UNESCO-listed hydraulic boat lifts. The nearby Strépy-Thieu funicular lift, one of the tallest in the world, now bypasses them. Around that canal, a multimodal logistics cluster has grown, notably on the Garocentre platform. La Louvière-based enterprises share one trait: they know how to produce, yet they still run quotes, workshop schedules and timesheets on spreadsheets and paper.
How we work with La Louvière-based enterprises
For an industrial SME in the Centre, the website is almost never the emergency; the workshop is. So we start by coming to see how you actually work. How does a quote go out, how does an order become a production job, where do the hours leak away? Then we build the missing tool: production tracking, quotes and work orders, workshop scheduling and a mobile app for teams on site.
Where useful, we add a portal where your client can see progress without phoning you. We connect these tools to your accounting and to your ERP where one exists. That beats adding yet another separate piece of software. For La Louvière-based enterprises, that tool is custom work, starting at €99/month over 12 months, or €79/month on a 24-month commitment. The showcase site comes afterwards, at €29/month all-in on the same commitment, because the money should go to the workshop first.
We design field screens down to a few buttons, testable on a phone with gloves on. We also train your teams on site at delivery. The town is about 45 minutes from our Brussels office via the E19 and A501, so we scope in your own premises. The free 24-hour quote then says exactly what your tool will cost.
