The Prudential Lions were installed in Branch Brook Park, Newark, NJ in 1959 as a present from the Prudential Insurance Company of America.  The Lions are carved Indiana limestone companion sculptures depicting seated male lions, each with a front paw resting on a sphere.  They are approx. seven feet tall and weigh 2,900 pounds each.  Sculptor Karl Bitter created them in 1901 to stand over the doorway of the Prudential Insurance Company in Newark.  They were moved when the building was demolished in 1956.  In 2011, Essex County and the Branch Brook Park Alliance decided to restore the original statues, while at the same time creating precast concrete replicas for the Park.

Kreilick Conservation, LLC was engaged to conserve the Lions and to create full-sized replicas.  Kreilick Conservation recommended that the badly deteriorated Lions be digitally recorded as a precursor to creating replicas that would be placed in the park.  After archival research and cleaning, the deteriorated and missing details were restored using water-soluble clay.  The restored statues were laser scanned by Direct Dimensions, Inc. with a Surphaser® 25HSX phase shift, hemispherical 3-D scanner.  The scanner created polygonal computer models (STL files) that were provided to Digital Atelier, LLC.  There, a 5-axis CNC machine milled full-sized foam replicas.  These foam figures were used by Metropole, Inc. for the mold-making and casting processes.  The final products were two full-scale precast concrete replicas of the Prudential Lions.  George Young Co. installed the statues under the supervision of Kreilick Conservation, LLC personnel.