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1945-1957 :

FIB decided to establish its offices in Uccle where it is still located today.
By the end of the Second World War, the electricity produced by the newly-developed nuclear energy let believe that the electricity was going to become the almost unique source to heat industrial furnaces.
However, the first reserves of natural gas were then discovered in Aquitaine (France) and a little bit later in the Netherlands and in Italy.

		Aware of the extended possibilities offered by natural gas regarding the regulation of the furnaces and their atmosphere, Mr. HERMANS, Civil Engineer incorporator of FIB, took the first patents in order to develop the premix heating system with gas.
(Mr HERMANS)

This original heating technique of the furnaces allowed at that time some original furnace constructions, the use of which already allowed a very rapid heating under atmosphere conditions that could be realized before only thanks to muffles, tubes and protective atmospheres.

The rapid heating of the wires under atmosphere had been invented by FIB.

Immediately, some installations were supplied to the Netherlands, to France and to Italy. So has the technique of open fired patenting been developed in France thanks to a customer-supplier collaboration and this in order to manufacture the wires necessary for the suspension cables of the Tancarville bridge.

The open fired patenting was then going to develop in France and Italy.

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