Lucchini RS S.p.A. (formerly Lucchini Sidermeccanica S.p.A. and where the acronym "RS" stands for "rolling stock") is an Italian company, fully owned by the Lucchini family through a financial holding called Sinpar S.p.A. and divided from
Gruppo Lucchini
Gruppo Lucchini was the third largest Italian steel group after Gruppo Riva and Techint, with a 2005 production of 3.5 million tonnes. It is specialized in high quality long and special carbon steel products.
In 2005 the Russian steel and mining ...
, which was under Russian control of
Alexei Mordashov
Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov ( rus, Алексей Александрович Мордашов; born 26 September 1965) is a Russian billionaire businessman. He is the main shareholder and chairman of Severstal, Russia's largest steel and mini ...
and
Severstal
Severstal (russian: Северсталь, , Northern Steel) is a Russian company mainly operating in the steel and mining industry, headquartered in Cherepovets. Severstal is listed on the Moscow Exchange and LSE and is the largest steel compan ...
from 2005 till 2007. In 2008 the Lucchini family took back the control of Lucchini RS.
Lucchini RS specialises in steel products such as railways products, steel casting, forgings, tool steels and forge ingots.
The company headquarters is in
Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...
, but the main plant is located in
Lovere Bergamo on the west shore of
Iseo Lake: the plant covers an area of 237,000 sqm including 147,000 sqm of factory buildings. Typical of this company is its ability to house on site all phases of production from the initial design to the finished products.
The Lucchini RS Group is made of:
* Lucchini RS
* Lucchini Industries
* Lucchini Mamé Forge
* Lucchini Tool Steel
* LUR (formerly known as Lucchini UK and JV between Lucchini RS and Unipart Rail)
* Lucchini Sweden
* Lucchini Poland
* Zhibo Lucchini
* Lucchini CE (
Austria
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)
* LBX (
Belgium
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)
* Lucchini India
* Lucchini CN (
Beijing
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,
China)
* Lucchini South Africa
* Lucchini North America
In October 2007 Lucchini RS established a joint venture in China, Zhibo Lucchini Railway Equipment Ltd. This company is the Chinese market leader in the manufacturing of high speed railway wheels, axles and wheelsets.
In 2010 the investment for a new railway rolling mill in Italy was completed and put into service.
On 27 June 2014, Lucchini RS acquired from the Tribunal of
Liege the bankrupt
Valdunes company to manufacture railway products. The name of the new company is LBX SA.
On 3 September 2014 Lucchini RS announced that it signed a preliminary agreement to acquire, by the end of 2014, 49% shareholding of
Mamé Group, an important manufacturer of forged steel components based in
Cividate Camuno Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo ...
. Mamé Group was eventually completely acquired by Lucchini RS and renamed Lucchini Mamé Forge.
On 2 February 2015 Lucchini RS and
Unipart Rail created a new joint venture called LUR or Lucchini Unipart Rail Ltd. The new business has an annual turnover of around £60m (about €75m) and employs over 300 people on two production sites,
Manchester
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and
Doncaster
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. Lucchini RS holds 60% of LUR.
See also
*
List of Italian companies
Italy is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe with the third largest nominal GDP in the Eurozone and the eighth largest in the world. As an advanced economy the country also has the sixth worldwide national wealth and it is ranked third ...
References
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Steel companies of Italy
Rolling stock manufacturers of Italy
Companies established in 1856
Italian brands