If you’ve been in the pool business for a while, you’ve probably noticed a pattern: manufacturers tend to dominate either the French market or the rest of Western Europe — rarely both. TSPH, short for The Swimming Pool Hub, is the exception. The group generates roughly half its turnover in France and the other half across Benelux and the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), a geographical spread that, according to co-CEO Guillaume de Troostembergh, no other one-piece pool manufacturer currently matches.
We sat down with Guillaume to learn more about the group behind the name, its brands, and what makes it tick.
A Young Name With Decades of Experience
The name TSPH only appeared in 2022, when the group made its first acquisitions under that banner. But don’t mistake the young corporate identity for a lack of track record. The group’s oldest brand traces back to 1962, founded as “Ateliers de Polyester du Limbourg” — a pioneer that helped reinvent the pool industry by moving construction off-site and into the factory, at a time when fiberglass pools were still a novelty.
The road since then hasn’t always been smooth. Between 2009 and 2014, the founding company was hit hard by the financial crisis, which forced a fundamental reinvention: the business model shifted from a B2C to a B2B approach, alongside a change of generation at the helm. The following decade, from 2014 to 2024, brought a mix of organic and external growth — including recovering from a serious factory fire in 2017 — with revenue and profitability climbing steadily. It’s a detail Guillaume is keen to stress: TSPH isn’t a newcomer riding a trend, but an experienced, reliable, long-term player that has simply rebranded its group identity in recent years.
Today, Guillaume de Troostembergh and Edmond de Fabribeckers run the group together as co-CEOs — both around 40 years old — and jointly manage the LPW Pools brand directly. Each of the other daughter brands has its own dedicated manager: Nico de Wouters leads Flexline, and Pierre-Antoine Gasciolli — who managed Aboral Piscines before TSPH acquired the company in 2025 — continues to run it today. The group is family-owned, held by the de Troostembergh family together with Edmond de Fabribeckers and Pierre-Antoine Gasciolli.
One Group, Three Complementary Brands
TSPH’s core focus is one-piece (monobloc) pools: pools manufactured as a single unit in a factory, rather than built on-site. To cover the full range of what pool builders and their customers might need, the group operates three brands, each with its own positioning, manufacturing site and manager:
- LPW Pools — high-end monobloc pools in vinylester with honeycomb insulation, available in 13 fixed models. LPW produces around 650 pools a year, generating €16.2 million in revenue in 2024, and keeps large volumes in stock — meaning pool builders can get delivery in as little as two to three weeks even during peak season, a significant advantage when demand spikes in summer. Installed prices to the end customer typically range from €55,000 to €80,000. Production takes place at the group’s factory in Simandre, Burgundy.
- Aboral Piscines — a premium monobloc brand in polyester, also with honeycomb insulation, offering 32 fixed models. Aboral was historically owned by a French family and joined the TSPH group in 2025, becoming its most recent addition, with production split across two sites in Saint-Jean-d’Illac (Gironde) and Simandre (Burgundy). The brand ships roughly 1,300 pools a year, for €15.1 million in 2024 revenue, and sits in the mid-range segment, with installed prices generally between €30,000 and €60,000.
- Flexline — custom-made polypropylene pools with virtually unlimited dimensions, headquartered and manufactured in a 7,000 m² plant in Aarschot, Belgium. Acquired in 2022, Flexline lets TSPH combine the speed and consistency of factory production with the dimensional flexibility usually associated with poured-concrete pools — the best of both worlds, as Guillaume puts it. The brand produced about 180 pools in 2024 for €3.3 million in revenue, positioned high-end, with installed prices from €50,000 up to €130,000 for larger, fully bespoke projects.
Together, the three brands generated roughly €34.6 million in revenue and shipped over 2,100 pools in 2024, produced across three factories in Aarschot (Belgium), Simandre (Burgundy) and Saint-Jean-d’Illac (Gironde), and employing more than 120 people in total.
Rather than compete internally, the three brands are designed to complement one another, and all three are sold in the same seven markets — France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland and the UK — through a shared network of Certified Partners (independent pool builders). Many dealers choose to carry two or three TSPH brands side by side, giving them the flexibility to match almost any customer request and budget, much like a car dealership offering several marques under one roof.
Built on Reliability, Respect and Creativity
Ask Guillaume what defines TSPH as a company, and three words come up: reliability, respect and creativity.
Reliability goes beyond product quality, he explains — it’s about doing what you say and saying what you do, so that pool builders can focus on installation and customer relationships without worrying about supply. Respect extends to suppliers, dealers and employees alike, underpinning the long-term relationships TSPH aims to build with its partner network. And creativity reflects the need to move fast in a notoriously cyclical industry, where a good summer can trigger a boom and a bad one a slump almost overnight.
That creative, opportunity-focused mindset has been tested more than once. When polypropylene pools began eating into the group’s traditional markets, TSPH’s response was to acquire a polypropylene manufacturer of its own — turning a competitive threat into a new brand.
“When there’s a problem, we look at it and ask: how can we turn this problem into an opportunity?”
That philosophy was put to a much harder test in 2017, when a major fire destroyed production molds and machinery at one of the group’s factories. No one was injured, but the damage could have crippled supply to dependent pool builders for a season — something the group takes seriously precisely because, as Guillaume puts it, “our pool builders are very dependent on us… if we can’t supply them with pools, it’s a big issue for them.” Instead, after a few months, TSPH was delivering pools again.
Listening to the End Customer
Perhaps the clearest evidence of TSPH’s reliability claim comes from an independent survey the group commissions every two to three years, asking several hundred LPW pool owners each year whether they would recommend the brand to friends and family. Over recent survey cycles, that figure has consistently landed between 91% and 98%, with recommendation levels holding steady at that high level compared to 2020.
The survey doesn’t stop at a satisfaction score — it includes around 20 questions probing what could be improved, feedback the group has used to make concrete product changes, down to details like widening stairs on a specific pool model after customers flagged them as too narrow.
What’s Next
TSPH is preparing to launch a redesigned group website at tsph.com in the coming weeks, consolidating information on all three brands, their factories and their product ranges in English, French, Dutch and German.
