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Welcome to the Lium press page, your official source for all news, press releases, and resources regarding our company. Lium, an innovative French startup, positions itself as a key player in the security and decarbonization of sensitive industrial sites, particularly those classified as Seveso. Through our autonomous tethered balloon technology, Horus, we work every day to make critical infrastructure safer and more environmentally friendly.
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Lium: Tethered balloon for monitoring sites
BFM Business
Lium develops innovative solutions to protect critical industrial sites. With Horus, our autonomous tethered balloon, we combine continuous surveillance, artificial intelligence, and a commitment to sustainability to ensure the safety of infrastructures while reducing their environmental footprint ...
Lium's airship hovers above industrial sites to monitor gas leaks and fire outbreaks.
Maddyness
Between the Lubrizol law, named after the industrial disaster that struck Rouen in September 2019, and increasingly stringent European regulations since the summer of 2024, industries are seeking to reduce both their environmental impact and the risks associated with their activities. Lium raises 800,000 euros...
Lium: Its balloons equipped with cameras monitor sensitive sites.
Le Dauphiné libéré
Lium designs tethered balloons to monitor sensitive sites. This startup from Vaucluse, founded in January 2021 by Guilain Yvon and Thomas Fattore, is currently based in Orange. It will relocate in early July to the Avignon-Provence airport in a suitable hangar with office space...
Why an aerial balloon will fly over Orano's nuclear site
Le Dauphiné libéré
On Wednesday, December 6, and Thursday, December 7, a tethered balloon, approximately 4 meters in wingspan and 2 meters in height, will be visible within the airspace perimeter of the Orano Tricastin nuclear site, located between Drôme and Vaucluse...
Better than a drone? These engineers have invented the balloon that monitors industrial sites and forest fires.
Le Parisien
Two young engineers from the startup Lium, based at the GRT-Gaz incubator in Villeneuve-la-Garenne (Hauts-de-Seine), are developing a high-tech autonomous tethered balloon. A meeting...
Vaucluse: Tethered balloons monitor the sites.
La Provence
Based in Orange, the young startup co-founded by engineers Guilain Yvon and Thomas Fattore, which designs tethered balloons to monitor industrial sites, is set to move to Avignon. "We were listed among the 100 startups to invest in for 2023 by..."
With its tethered balloon, Lium aims to secure industrial sites.
La Tribune
The startup based in Vaucluse proposes using balloons in the sky to detect gas leaks, fires, or intrusions at sensitive locations. Two tests of its prototype are planned in the coming months. "We were listed among the 100 startups to invest in for 2023 by..."
"Horus," an aerial balloon for monitoring sensitive sites developed by Lium.
L'usine nouvelle
Lium, a startup based in Orange (Vaucluse) and specialized in industrial safety and security, has created a helium-filled tethered balloon called "Horus." Attached to the ground by a cable, it can carry cameras to monitor industrial sites in real time.
Lium helps sensitive industrial sites improve the safety and security of their infrastructure through an aerial observation solution.
Challenges
Our mission at Lium is to provide a higher perspective to all stakeholders in safety and security so they can better protect infrastructure, personnel, and the environment from various threats. To achieve this, we develop and commercialize revolutionary tethered balloon systems...
Innovation: Lium, the aerial balloon that secures sensitive sites.
Vaucluse Entreprises
Lium is a young startup from Vaucluse, based in Orange, founded in 2021. Two engineers, Guilain YVON and Thomas FATTORE, one specializing in aerospace and the other in mechanics, created the tethered balloon, "The 3rd eye of sensitive sites"...