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1981

• 2 March 1981

Engine number 300,000 is completed at Petit-Rechain.

• 1 August 1981

Sherwood Medical Industries leaves Brunswick. The legal entity Brunswick SA disappears. Mercury Marine SA becomes Marine Power Europe.

• 3 September 1981

Personnel and their families celebrate the tenth anniversary of the business now known as Marine Power Europe.

1983

Claude Fabry is appointed Managing Director and Albert Claes Manufacturing Director

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1984

• 19 June 1984

The first Mariner outboard is completed at Petit-Rechain.

The Cheratte facility is closed and the land and buildings are sold to the Belgian Ministry of Public Works

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1985

• March 1985

1987

• 26 November 1987

The first MerCruiser diesel engine comes off the production line at Petit-Rechain

1989

Fifty years of Leadership