Category: News

🎉 Kicking off 2026 by celebrating an incredible milestone — Dave Smith’s 40-year anniversary at LBBC. This year marks four decades since Dave first joined LBBC, and what a journey it’s been. Over the past 40 years, Dave (pictured on the right with Howard Pickard, Chainman of LBBC) has been a constant presence within the business, contributing an extraordinary depth of knowledge,...

LBBC is celebrating a significant breakthrough in its ongoing research and development programme. The team has successfully leached a real turbine blade using our 2L test rig—an achievement that marks a major milestone in advancing our understanding of the core leaching process. While this development isn’t a product launch, it represents a crucial step forward in the technologies that will...

LBBC Chairman Howard Pickard’s recent visit to Australia marked an important step in strengthening LBBC’s presence across both the defence and sustainability sectors. The trip brought valuable opportunities to reinforce key relationships, explore new avenues for collaboration, and celebrate past successes already making an impact on the ground.   Advancing Defence Collaboration at IndoPac...

Dave Haslehurst and the LBBC team recently visited the United States for the ICI Conference in Pittsburgh. In this reflection, Dave shares his thoughts on the event and highlights how conferences like these provide an excellent opportunity to reconnect with colleagues, customers, and like-minded companies across the investment casting sector, as well as to meet new customers and introduce them...

  Today marks a major milestone in our journey — the moment we bring all four divisions of LBBC together as one business. For many years, LBBC has been represented through its specialist divisions — Technologies, Baskerville, Beechwood, and Resomation. Each has its own proud history, expertise, and identity. Yet our greatest strength lies in the depth of knowledge, innovation, and...

LBBC at ICI’s 72nd Annual Technical Conference & Expo The LBBC team is excited to be attending ICI’s 72nd Annual Technical Conference & Expo at the David E. Lawrence Convention Centre in Pittsburgh, PA, on September 29–30! We’ll be joined by our partners, Beehive Industries—the exclusive Sales Representative for LBBC Technologies—who will be exhibiting right next to us. As the largest...

It’s been an exciting couple of months at LBBC as we’ve welcomed several new faces to our growing team. We’re delighted to welcome Tom Luigjes, our new Service Manager. Tom brings 9 years of European service experience to the role, where he’ll be focused on reviewing and enhancing our service contracts and overall service offering — ensuring we continue to deliver the highest level of support...

Earlier this month, LBBC had the privilege of presenting at the EICF Investment Casting Manufacturing Technology Course, held at Brno University of Technology. This annual course brings together students, engineers, and industry professionals for an in-depth exploration of investment casting technology, bridging the gap between materials theory and industrial practice. The one-week course,...

LBBC’s Dave Haslehurst and Nick Hall recently returned from a successful trip to Asia, beginning with visits across Taiwan and concluding in Japan at the World Investment Casting Conference (WCIC) 2025. In the blog below, Dave shares insights and highlights from their journey. Taiwan Our journey began in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where we met with AIDC (Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation)....