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The Clay Pigeon Company is the UK clay manufacturing arm of Laporte. Since being purchased by Laporte in 2000 it has gone from strength to strength. There are more than 30 members of staff and all the clay targets produced on site, as well as those few imported, go through stringent quality control measures.
The company's philosophies are:
It is evident that our owner, Jean-Michel Laporte takes the quality and service of those products that bear his name personally, as he is the third generation of his family to lead this worldwide company forward.
Laporte prides itself on supplying not only the most durable and dependable automatic clay target launchers, but is also the world leader in design and service in this field. Customers choose the Laporte range because the brand has been the choice of champions over the decades and due to Laporte's worldwide reputation, it has been chosen as the supplier for Olympic Games year upon year.
Laporte and The Clay Pigeon Company are the biggest manufacturers of clays and traps under the "same umbrella" throughout the world. In 2007, Laporte supplied a record number of traps and targets to Europe and the rest of the world, with customers stating "Olympic quality at affordable prices".
The Laporte name stands for quality and dependability - quite simply Number 1 throughout the world.
Key Dates in Laportes' history 1927 - Manufacture of the 1st Clay-shooting Launcher : the Hand Trap by Emile Laporte. 1930 - Presentation of the N°2 projector by Pierre Laporte 1931 - The first Shooting range in Antibes. 1956 - Birth of the JUNIOR TRAP 75 introduced by the Laporte Family. 1960 - Olympic supplier - Machines and Clays - Rome. Olympic Games. 1964 - Olympic supplier - Machines and Clays - Tokyo. Olympic Games. 1966 - Creation of the SKEET 1000 and the TRAP 2000 (LAPORTE Patent) 1973 - Launching of Trap 125. Creation by J.C. and J.M. LAPORTE 1974 - Launching of The Target Police and Military Division by J.M. LAPORTE. 1976 - Olympic supplier Machines and Clays - Montreal. Olympic Games. 1980 - Olympic supplier Machines and Clays - Moscow. Olympic Games. 1980 - Launch of the Trap 185 presented by Frederic LAPORTE 1987 - Launch of the AUTO-RABBIT clay by the LAPORTE team. 1988 - Launch of the Vertical "TEAL-TRAP" created by the LAPORTE team. 1990 - The new TRAP 185, presented by Thomas, the youngest child in the LAPORTE family. 2004 - Olympic supplier Machines and Clays - Athens. Olympic Games. 2008 - Olympic supplier Machines and Clays - Beijing. Olympic Games.
The main competitions over the last 10 years:
OLYMPIC GAMES - Selected 6 times for the Olympic games Beijing Athens Rome Tokyo Montreal Moscow
TRAP, DOUBLE TRAP AND SKEET COMPETITIONS 2011 World English Sporting, New Zealand 2010 World Skeet, USA 2010 The Commonwealth Games, India 2007 African Games in Algiers, Algeria 2007 Asian Clay Championships in Manila, Philippines 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2006 XXème Central American & Caribbean Games - Columbia 2006 15th Asian Games in Doha 2006 ISSF World Cup in Suhl, Germany 2006 ISSF World Cup in Kerville, USA 2006 ISSF World Cup in Cairo, Egypt 2006 XX Central American & Caribbean Sport Games, Columbia 2006 Asian Clay Shooting Championships in Singapore (ISSF) 2006 Pan African in Morocco 2005 FITASC European Sporting Championship, Limassol/Cyprus 2005 ISSF Final World Cup in Jebel Ali, Dubai/UAE 2005 Sea Games Trap & Skeet in Manila, Philippines 2005 Juegos Centroamericanos (Trap & Skeet) in Guatemala 2005 10th Arabic Sporting Games, Algiers - Algeria 2005 ISSF Final World Cup, Dubai - United Arab Emirates 2005 South East Asian Games, Manila - Philippines 2005 Central America Games, Guatemala
COMPAK SPORTING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2004 San-Antonio
COMPAK SPORTING EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 2005 Le Chêne Rond 2002 Moscou 2000 Le Rabot 1999 Nevremont 1997 Le Rabot 1996 Nevremont 1995 Nancy
SPORTING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2007 Sporting World FITASC Prague 2005 Southern Counties 2004 Signes 2003 Claythorne Lodge 2002 Dornsberg 2000 Durbuy 1999 Thiers 1998 San Antonio 1997 Sun City 1995 Castillejo
SPORTING EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 2005 Limassol 2004 Prague 2003 Prague 2002 Monfortinho 2001 Le Rabot 1999 Castillejo 1997 Dornsberg 1996 Thiers
SPORTING CONTINENTAL CHAMPIONSHIP 2006 Pan African Championship, Marrakech - Morocco 2006 Triangulaire, Martinique 2005 Oceania Games, Noumea - New Caledonia 2005 Triangulaire, Guyana
UNIVERSAL TRENCH EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP 2004 Alba Serena 2003 Antibes 1998 Nancy
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