#News

We are looking for talented sales agents who will act as our local partners to promote LBI business : selling high-quality castings.
Our values :
http://www.lbi-foundries.com• Group of 5 casting foundries with integrated workshop
• 100% made in France
• Almost one century of casting (created in 1919)
• Family owned business – able to make fast decisions
• Flexible company with valuable know-how and ambitious guidelines
• Experimented sales team with a strong team spirit
• Skilled in (...)

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.
AluSic® is used as an optical and electronic support and Exium® as a high (...)

Use of Aluminium Bronze in valves
Find out why aluminium bronze is a good technical alternative to stainless steels or duplex/superduplex steels in engineering valves and pumps.
For support regarding your projects regarding sea water, please send over your drawings and specifications.
Read more !
Sea our product leaflet for valves
Sea our product leaflet for pumps

LBI : Opening of our new heavy parts’ centrifugal casting machine
Our ‘heavy parts’ casting foundry (Tecnacem) is now equipped with a new centrifugal casting machine which is dedicated to the production of medium sized and heavy parts. This machine can cast parts with an outside diameter up to 1.600 mm x length up to 2.300 mm. Maximum casting weight depends on our melting equipment, currently 20 tons.
The first part, a pressure nut for a steel mill, was cast on 12/05/2017
This new machine (...)

We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the “International Sales” trophy during the industrial subcontracting Fair Midest 2016 in Paris.
This is thanks to the strong performance of our export sales market which has grown to 85% in 2015.
We sincerely thank our international customers and sales partners, which has enabled us to gain this recognition and award.
Article from Midest Website : (...)

new leaflet introducing foundry SRI (Saint Remy Industrie) and its products portfolio

new leaflet introducing group lbi foundries and its products portfolio

European’s largest vertical centrifugal casting machine is located at our ’Tecnacem’ plant : the machine enables us to cast parts up to 6m O.D. & 20 tons maximum weight. On 26/11/2015 we cast the 2000th part using that casting machine.
The quantity of cast parts has been growing strongly over the last months for serial products markets.
Annual ’cast’ weight has doubled over the last 5 years, with an annual growth of +50%, compared to (...)

We are proud to announce that company LBI is now ISO 14001 approved.
This is the result of our efforts which reflect our commitment to ensure greater awareness of our environmental performance with its impacts and specifically to introduce energy management systems.
Link to the certificate ISO 14001:2004 LR

New part of our HNK 3-axes machine park, this lathe has a turning capacity up to OD 2.500 mm.
This investment will enable us to be competitive for the production of parts with medium to large dimensions (LBI can cast up to 6 m diameter and up to 20 t. cast weight) and it will assist in shortening our delivery time by taking workload from other machines.
Installed and working since Mai 2016, our new lathe is already well loaded.
Please feel free to contact us for quotes for the production (...)