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Our new Shipbuilding leaflet !

Bertrand — 2021-07-27T10:23:00Z

Our new leaflet for the shipbuilding industry is online, take a look at our production capabilities for the naval sector ! Our sales team is at your disposal for your castings needs !

Have a look here !

New press article in Stainless Steel

Bertrand — 2021-06-21T13:36:08Z

We invite you to read the article "NAB ALLOYS" published in Stainless Steel in April 2021, section : Technical Articles.

New press article in Pump Engineer

Bertrand — 2021-06-21T13:11:39Z

We invite you to read the article "A new approach to casting impellers using 3D printing" published in Pump Engineer in April 2021, in the Technical Article section.

Our last design project !

Bertrand — 2021-06-15T10:13:00Z

LBI Foundries is proud to announce our last art / architectural / design project, cast and machined in our plants (LBI and INOXYDA), signed by world class designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec !!!

This project was presented last week at the new private Art-Museum la Bourse de Commerce | Pinault Collection in Paris.

We realized high flag bearer masts in Nickel Aluminium Bronze, centrifugally cast, then assembled, welded together and final machined at LBI, and at their feet, Black patinated “Rocks” made in Bronze by our company INOXYDA.

This was a new occasion to challenge and highlight our know how, our taste for excellence and synergies into our foundry group LBI Foundries.

This is the second project made for Bouroullec brothers, for which we already produced masts in Nickel Aluminium Bronze dedicated to the new Fontaine on the famous Champs-Elyséesof Paris in 2019.

Our new sales office in the UK !

Bertrand — 2021-06-15T10:02:00Z

LBI Foundries and its subsidiaries LBI, SRI & INOXYDA are very excited to announce the launch of our UK subsidiary ‘LBI Castings Ltd'.

The creation of our new UK office enables local support of our valued partners by a dedicated sales team.
This new venture enables improved customer service and development of our existing (Nuclear, Shipbuilding, Power Generation and Aerospace) customer base in the region.
This office is responsible for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.
Simon Margison has worked successfully as a representative for our centrifugal casting & machining divisions during 2020 - 2021.

Simon becomes responsible for the new business development activities of LBI Castings Ltd for the following plants :-

To know more about the commercial offering (casting or machining) of LBI Castings Ltd please call or email Simon Margison directly.
simon.margison@lbi-castings.co.uk
+44 (0) 7340 833 440

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LBI on its way to Mars !

Bertrand — 2019-03-13T19:09:00Z

The first interplanetary mission named InSight departed May 5th aboard the rocket Atlas V5. What's the mission objective ? To understand the formation and evolution of Mars and investigate its interior structure.

To do so, InSight is equipped with a seismometer SEIS and its measurements will provide a glimpse into the planet's internal activity. SEIS carries parts in AluSic® and Exium®, manufactured by the company LBI.


SEIS seismometer view: Sphere opened up, showing the two hemispherical shells as well as the Very Broad Band pendulums

AluSic® is used as an optical and electronic support and Exium® as a high frequency vibration damper. The two pieces in Exium® are 12mm for 20mm long and those in Alusic® are 55mm in diameter by 8mm thick.

These two alloys, developed by LBI for very special applications, have extraordinary properties.

See you on November 26th for the landing !

In the meantime, our sales team is at your disposal if you want to know more about this project, our special alloys or our centrifugal foundry capabilities.

LBI's castings on Mars !

Bertrand — 2019-03-13T19:08:00Z

On Monday, November 26, at around 9:00 pm French time, after a 6-months journey of almost 500 million km, the InSight mission module landed on the planet Mars.

The InSight mission, with a budget of nearly a billion dollars, carries on board an hypersensitive seismometer designed by CNES and Sodern. Operational in early 2019, the SEIS instrument is able to hear the shock waves of meteorites that regularly crash on Mars, but also earthquakes, creaking layers, and their deformations.
This SEIS seismometer contains parts made of our special alloys EXIUM® AM and ALUSiC®.

The parts we produce were already present all over the world, but since this week, they are even further away !

See also our previous news : http://www.lbi.fr/LBI-on-its-way-to-Mars

A permanent showcase on les Champs-Eysées !

Bertrand — 2019-03-13T18:00:00Z

Extract from the press kit :
RONAN AND ERWAN BOUROULLEC BRING THE CHAMPS-ELYSÉES FOUNTAINS BACK TO LIFE

Paris, 12 March 2019 - A new life has begun for the fountains of the Rond-Point des Champs-Elysées.
Designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have thus produced a design for this famous Rond-Point, which is both a spectacular and poetical interweaving of water, light and movement.
After three years of work, from preliminary sketches through to full-scale tests, the new Fontaines des Champs-Elysées have just been fitted into place.

This restoration has been completed by a remarkable artistic creation (and genuine technological feat) by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, worthy of the significant role that the Champs-Elysées plays in the heritage, aesthetic and emotional landscape of Paris.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec designed six structures consisting of a 13m-high central mast in bronze,
which supports a series of crystal light hangings through which the water f lows and falls. The whole
structure rotates very slowly, at the same pace as passing pedestrians, and glistens like light in motion accompanied by the play of water.

“We had to find the right balance for this design between a monumental and airy structure, in order
to blend into the urban landscape, to highlight as delicately as possible the view between Place de la
Concorde and Place de l'Etoile and to subtly mark the passage from the peace and quiet of the gardens to the bustle of the Avenue des Champs-Elysées. Our greatest wish for this project was to bring to the heart of the urban landscape, in an open and popular site, a highly ambitious creation in terms of both aesthetics and technicality. It was a real pleasure to bring together a unique collective of expertise and craft excellence, from workers to engineers, at the service of a creation which now belongs to everyone” said Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec during the unveiling of the new Fountains.

Each mast is anchored to a steel chassis weighing more than two tonnes and a system of rotating parts makes the fountains revolve.
A total of 40 companies and more than 250 people participated in the design and building of the
Fountains to produce these technological wonders on a par with the most complex of aeronautic works or timepieces.

This ambitious creation, which should mark a milestone in the development of the city's urban landscape, is a testament to the commitment of Paris to the future of the Champs-Elysées as an iconic landmark of the city's attractiveness and renown.

LBI and its employees are very proud to have participated in the construction of these fountains by supplying all the masts, assembly of hollow tubes in Aluminium-Bronze (NAB or CuAl alloy) manufactured thanks to centrifugal casting technique used at the Amnéville foundry shop.
In addition to casting the tubes, LBI also carried out their machining and complete assembly.

If you have monumental art sculpture projects, let us know your needs or wishes, our teams will be able to advise you.

Centrifugal castings, an alternative to forgings

Bertrand — 2018-09-26T08:17:48Z

Why choose centrifugal casting ?

It is a more economical process : less metal is required to produce optimized profiles therefore the production time is reduced. Moreover, centrifugal castings have better characteristics such as a better dimensional stability and reduced internal tensions.

LBI offers components with optimized shapes thanks to our specific tools for several sectors such as nuclear, defence, shipbuilding, machine tools...
We elaborate the alloys according to your need (international standard or your specification) in order to reach the mechanical and physical characteristics that are specific to a particular application : magnetic permeability, corrosion resistance…

Discover forging/casting alloys equivalences

Pump engineer - choose aluminium bronze for pump components

Bertrand — 2018-09-19T11:38:00Z

Nickel Aluminium Bronze (NAB) alloys have been developed to resist sea water corrosion. They are used use in several applications including pumps (impeller, wear ring, pump body...).

Find out more about the unique properties of those alloys by reading the article published by Pump Engineer in its August 2018 edition :

Aluminium Bronze - an alternative to duplex steels in pump design (EN)

Article in the Pump Engineer magazine - PDF version in English