Silca
| Silca SpA | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Aktiengesellschaft (company of the Kaba Holding AG group) |
| founding | Silca was founded as SpA in 1974 in Vittorio Veneto (Treviso) |
| Seat | Via Podgora 20, ZI
31029 Vittorio Veneto (Province of Treviso) |
| management | Managing director: Stefano Zocca |
| Number of employees |
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| Branch | Metal mechanical industry
Manufacture of keys and key cutting machines |
| Website | http://www.silca.biz/ |
Silca SpA is an international company specializing in the manufacture of keys and commercial to industrial key cutting machines. Silca SpA is part of the Kaba Group , a multinational security technology company. Kaba Holding AG is a group listed on the SIX Swiss Stock Exchange and employs around 7,500 people in 60 countries. The Silca brand is represented by 130 distributors and branches in Italy, Germany, France, UK, Spain, the Netherlands, India and Brazil.
history
Silca SpA was founded in 1974 in Vittorio Veneto (Treviso) as a “ società per azioni ” (“joint stock company”) Società Italiana Lavorazione Chiavi e Affini (Italian company for key production) and gives up the activity that hitherto consisted of the artisanal production and duplication of The key was an industrial imprinting. Over the course of ten years, the IMPSA branches, now Silca SAS, in Paris , Silca UK Ltd. founded in London and Silca Deutschland GmbH in Heiligenhaus in Germany, which was later relocated to Velbert . In 1989, Silca began operating overseas through Silca Keys USA, based in Twinsburg (Ohio).
In the 1990s, Silca acquired companies specializing in the manufacture of key cutting machines and products for the security sector (Bollini srl, GBZ, Elzett). In 1997, Silca merged with the Canadian key giant Unican Group. In 2000 the Spanish division Silca Unican Iberica SA, today Silca Key Systems SA, was opened in Barcelona . In the same year, the company acquires the competitor Ilco Orion SpA
In 2001, Kaba Holding AG acquired the Unican Group and thus founded a global group active in the security industry. In the first 2000s, Silca invested in technological innovations and expanded the functions of their key cutting machines.
Products
The core business of Silca is the production of key blanks - over 60,000 types for everything from blank items for post office lockers to airplanes.
Silca also develops and produces mechanical and electronic key copying machines, customer-specific systems for the industrial production of keys and key copying machines for the security industry and the automotive sector in 250 different variants.
Silca develops software solutions for programming and duplicating keys, including updated databases.