Lucchini RS
company in Brescia, Italy
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, which was under Russian control of Alexei Mordashov and Severstal 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, 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 FA. RO.
LUR (formerly known as Lucchini UK)
Lucchini Sweden
Lucchini Poland
Zhibo Lucchini
Lucchini CE (Austria)
LBX (Belgium)
Lucchini India
Lucchini CN (Beijing, China)
Lucchini South Africa
Ahiyeni Rail
Lucchini North America
History
The Lovere production site, the current main plant of Lucchini RS Group, was founded in 1856 by Giovanni Andrea Gregorini who moved his business from Valcamonica. In 1907 the plant started the production of railway wheels, still today one of the distinctive products of the company, being the only Italian manufacturer of forged railway wheels and among the few in the world.
In 1930 the company was nationalized and remained under state control for many years, under various names including ILVA, Italsider, Terni and Lovere Sidermeccanica.
In 1990, within the general framework of the privatization program of the Italian State-owned steel industry, the Lovere plant was sold to the Lucchini Group of Mr. Luigi Lucchini. The company was then called "Lucchini Sidermeccanica" and started a program of modernization and internationalization – in 2000 the companies Lucchini UK and Lucchini Sweden were acquired from AD Tranz, in 2002 Lucchini Poland was founded – remaining within the Lucchini Group until 2007.
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