| Paul-François Huart-Chapel | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1770 |
| Died | 1850 |
Paul-François Huart-Chapel was a Belgian industrialist, and politician.
Paul-François Huart was born in Charleroi in 1770. He married Mary Chapel, the daughter of an industrialist.[1]
In 1806 he inherited the factories of the Chapel family.[1] He introduced a reverbatory furnace for melting metal in 1807, in 1821 the first Puddling furnace in Belgium (with J.M. Orban).[2][3]
Shortly after John Cockerill had built the first blast furnace in Belgium in Liege, he built a coke fired blast furnace in 1827 in Charleroi, 12m high and producing 6 to 10tonnes of pig iron a day.[4][5]
Between 1831 and 1834 he was Mayor of Charleroi. He died in 1850 aged 80.[1]