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Introduction
Le Bronze Industriel has transformed significantly over the past decade, evolving into the integrated group known as Lebronze alloys. The company has expanded its turnover from 50 to 210 million Euros and now employs 1,200 people globally. It serves a diverse range of markets including Aerospace, Automotive, Marine, and more.

Company Growth and Strategy
Since acquiring Le Bronze Industriel in 2006, the company has focused on offering a wide range of products, from semi-finished to finished products ready for assembly. This strategy has been successful, leading to the integration of multiple companies to enhance technological capabilities and market reach.

Production Capabilities
The group operates 12 production sites across France, Germany, Poland, China, and the USA, utilizing various manufacturing technologies such as foundry, forging, machining, and non-destructive testing. This integration ensures high-quality metal production and process expertise.

Recent Acquisitions and Partnerships
The acquisition of Custine’s forge has expanded capabilities with advanced forging and machining facilities. The group has also formed strategic partnerships, such as a joint venture with SNCF for catenary infrastructure solutions and a partnership with Tuffaloy in North America for welding products.

Product Range and Industrial Synergies
Lebronze alloys offers a comprehensive range of products and alloys, including copper, aluminium, steel, titanium, and superalloys. The group emphasizes industrial synergies to provide optimized solutions, leveraging complementary technologies and proprietary processes.

Key Figures
The group boasts a foundry capacity of 35,000 T/year, extrusion capacity of 20,000 T/year, and over 150 pieces of equipment. It serves more than 1,000 customers worldwide, with 60% of sales being engineered components.

Conclusion
Lebronze alloys is positioned as a major player in the design, transformation, and production of metal components, serving a wide array of industries with strategic and technical components.

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Our Group’s commitment is to find appropriate and optimized solutions for every sector’s requirements. Dear customers and partners, Le Bronze Industriel has undergone profound changes over the last 10 years, increasing its turnover from 50 to 210 million Euros and now totaling 1,200 employees all over the world. These changes have led to the creation of a fully integrated new group: Lebronze alloys. Beyond the historic markets, Automotive and Marine, of our parent company Le Bronze Industriel, we also supply technical components meeting critical application requirements to about twenty markets...

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Our history Rene LOISEAU founds Le Bronze Industrie!, the first company in France to develop wrought copper structural hardening alloys. Until 1939, the production was dedicated to the French National Navy, Aviation and Armaments. After 1945, Le Bronze Industriel significantly develops its production capabilities especially in the Automotive industry. A new production site is created in Suippes (close to Reims), where more elaborated products such as drawn pipes for Marine and Offshore applications and machined parts are manufactured. A fully brand new factory of 20 000 m2 is inaugurated. The...

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Our partnerships In order to better serve markets with particular needs and develop more innovative and competitive offers, Lba has set up partnerships through joint-ventures: • Lebronze Tuffaloy North America (LTNA), joint-venture in the USA (Greer, South Carolina) with the company Tuffaloy, in order to produce and sell into North America some welding and other technical products, providing the high level services allowed by a strong local presence, • SWLI, joint-venture in China (Xi’an) with SNCF and the Chinese companies Wanlida and ISI, in order to serve the catenaries infrastructure market...

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A multidisciplinary know-how dedicated to strategic components Industrial synergies between the activities of the group companies enables optimized solutions to be offered to our customers. It is a strategic axis of the group whether by the acquisition of companies mastering complementary technologies for elaboration, transformation and the joining of alloys or by investment in proprietary processes. When the Group’s experience is not enough, we undertake a development project, whether in a closed setting if the customer requires confidentiality or a setting of partnership for science and technology...

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Inoforges France Breteuil Inoforges France Taverny ii r orges ••• Inoforges China Suzhou Forges de Custines & Trie-Chateau, France Custines / Dangu / Trie-Chateau Inoforges Polska Rydzyna Lebronze Tuffaloy North America Greer (SC) Lebronze Tuffaloy North America Lebronze alloys Germany Ludenscheid Siegen - Hundt & Weber Le Bronze Industriel France Suippes Lebronze alloys | Germany Le Bronze Industriel France Selestat Lebronze Tuffalloy North America 1400 South Batesville Rd Greer, SC 29650 - U.S.A Tel : +1 864 469 0169

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