About
Founded in 1988, SANCO S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturing Company involved in the International Market that designs and supplies a complete
range of fire & gas detection and fire suppression equipment/systems, as well as associated services and fire fighting vehicles.
Company Certifications
“People, technology and environment are equally important in the focus of our actions”
Mission
“Sanco ensures an answer. A great ally for a safety that lasts”
We are working to offer expertise and products which realize safe, reliable and competitive-priced systems
by using materials and technologies which grant environmental integrity.
We seek the highest standard of performance by means of continuous investment in Research and Development.
Innovation is presently the turn-key which drives SANCO to help its customers to meet their needs of fire protection for tomorrow.
Vision
“Enthusiastic project engineers create additional success in teambuilding the project
by adding innovative knowledge to the project management”
We are acting at a global International level with the clear aim to become a leading company in our field,
pursuing continuous improvement to satisfy the highest expectations of our customers in terms of Quality and Reliability.
Our customer can rely on our tailor-made solutions and on our growing dynamism,
that allows us to quickly adapt methods and rhythms to new market trends.
Corporate policy
The Board of Directors has the responsibility to establish a Quality Health Safety Environmental Policy
ensuring its coherence with the integrated management system scope.
This responsibility sets out strategies and general objectives to be achieved, by sharing them with each department,
while ensuring necessary resource for the achievement of expected results.
Why we are different
Experience
Our success is not due to lucky circumstances but it has been built day-by-day thanks to the devotion of all the people involved: a competent and motivated team fully dedicated to their job and always ready for new challenges.
Expertise
For each project we consider design criteria, protection objectives and budget requirements in order to determine with customers the solution that best suits their needs. Each request is individually analyzed and evaluated by a skilled team of engineers, so that each project is considered as a new starting point, approached with great enthusiasm in order to provide a tailored solution. We secure the protection of human lives and future investments.
Quality
From the very beginning SANCO constantly committed itself to offering to its clients high quality and long lasting products. SANCO management makes every effort to ensure that all the staff is aware that ours is not an ordinary business, since we protect people and assets, providing a service of great usefulness.
Reliability
Thanks to a well-organized team and an efficient management, we provide reliable and cost-effective technologies, always considering the customer satisfaction as part of our corporate culture. A result of our growing performance over the years is the ever increasing number of International customers that day by day choose SANCO.
R&D Engineering
Our R&D activities, experience and know-how coming from the involvement in several projects enable us to quickly understand the market trend and develop innovative products from new technologies in a short timeframe. We pursue the continuous improvement also in our internal processes, so that we can quickly adapt methods and rhythms to new customers’ needs.
Safety
Safety takes priority over all other considerations, and this is the Company’s essential policy. The fire fighting sector is a highly specialized industry that considers the human factor to be of inestimable value. A field where skills and experience of people have to face new global challenges with the goal of keeping people and assets safe every day. Because when a fire starts to burn, it may give no warning.
One Single Source
Who addresses his requests to SANCO can find a company able to propose a very wide range of fire detection and fire suppression equipment and systems, designed and produced in accordance with International standards to satisfy the highest expectations of its customers. The clients that contact SANCO can find a unique source of information and solutions, able to fully meet their requirements in terms of quality and reliability.
R&D
Customer-oriented Innovations
Engineering Department provides its activities relevant to projects according to customers’ specifications and other International rules.
In order to do this, our technicians and engineers use 2D and 3D computer aided design software, like AUTOCAD and ESApro.
A continuous development for the improvement of our products is held by a team of highly-qualified and specialized engineers
both for the hardware and for the software part, in particular for electronic technologies.
Milestones
1988 – FOUNDING OF THE COMPANY SANCO SRL
In the very beginning, SANCO mainly focused in the design of automatic extinguishing systems and the trade of fire fighting and fire prevention products. Located in Magenta (Milano) it belonged to MINIMAX AG – member of PREUSSAGAG group.
“THE FUTURE HAS ALREADY BEGUN”
1997 – CERTIFICATION ACCORDING TO ISO 9001:1994
This certification was essential due to the strong growth of SANCO and to the market situation. The resulting opportunities to better and more efficiently structure the rapidly growing Company further enhanced the quality of the business activities.
“THE QUALITY OF A COMPANY’S PRODUCTS IS DETERMINED BY THE QUALITY OF THE COMPANY ITSELF”
1999 – CONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW HEADQUARTERS IN GALLIATE
“A NEW STEP. WE LOOK FURTHER”
2000 – MOVING TO THE NEW FACILITIES IN GALLIATE (Novara)
“A WIDE RANGE OF PRODUCTS”
2001 – FROM SANCO SRL TO SANCO SPA
A further step for going global.
“RELIABILITY FROM THE DESIGN TO THE REALIZATION”
2003 – PLANNING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
“WE THINK GLOBAL”
2010 – INAUGURATION OF NEW GAS FILLING STATION FOR CO2 – HFC227ea (FM200) AND IG541 (Inergen)
“INTEGRATED CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS”
2012 – CERTIFICATION ACCORDING TO OSHAS 18001:2007
SANCO has achieved a structured health and safety management system that has been certified by Lloyds’ Register, thus showing our commitment to the welfare of our staff and suppliers and customers.
“WE INVEST IN OUR PEOPLE”
2012 – A REAL BIG PROJECT IN IRAQ
Big project for the supply of all the fire detection and fire suppression systems for a power plant in Iraq for the amount of more than 15,000,000 USD
“WE SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF OUR CUSTOMERS”
2013 – CERTIFICATION ACCORDING TO ISO 14001:2004
SANCO thinks about its environmental impact, and this is the reason why it has been certified by Lloyd’s Register according to ISO 14001 standards. This gives not only benefit to the environment but it also shows our commitment to reduce costs and improve efficiency within our organization.
“A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE”
2014 – THE FIRST ITALIAN FIRE FIGHTING COMPANY
SANCO is the first Italian firefighting Company both for its dimensions (about 140 employees) and turnover (43,000,000 Euros)
“EXPERIENCE…MAKES THE DIFFERENCE”
2014 – QUALITY AWARD
During Lloyd’s Register Award Ceremony, SANCO receives the “Quality Award 2014“. It is the only fire fighting company to win this prize, among selected 1500 Italian industrial manufacturers partecipating to this event.
“A LEADER NOT BY CHANCE”
2015 – FAST TRACK PROJECT
“Fast track” project for three power plants in Egypt (1000 Mw) for a total amount of more than 12,500,000 USD
“COMPETITIVE SUCCESS AROUND THE WORLD”
2016 – UL AND FM CERTIFICATIONS
SANCO gets the UL and FM certification for several products. This achievement lets SANCO to be more and more introduced in the International market.
“SANCO: THE FIRE SUPPRESSION SPECIALIST”
2017 – THE NEW F&G CONTROL PANEL
The predisposition to constant improvement and the desire to anticipate forthcoming requests related to fire safety pushes SANCO to design and manufacture, after 3 years of development and hard tests, a new advanced, reliable and customizable fire alarm control panel called “Infinity-AP” which gets EN 54-2 and EN 54-4 certification.
“CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN FIRE-FIGHTING”
2018 – THE “HOT” CHALLENGE
SANCO consolidates its position in the Middle-East thanks to the award of many contracts for a total value that exceeds 20,000,000 Euros. Several big projects in the GCC Countries, especially for KNPC and KOC in Kuwait, with extreme environmental conditions (up to +65°C).
““SAFETY COMES FROM EXPERIENCE””
2019 – THE “COLD” CHALLENGE
SANCO is asked to face big challenges for the protection of some plants located in Siberia (i.e. Tobolsk and Sakhalin projects) and Kazakhstan (Tengizchevroil field) with stringent requirements and severe temperature conditions (-52 °C), fully in accordance with EAC rules and certification. The total value of the contracts exceeds 25,000,000 Euros.
“SANCO: THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT RISK”