Unicalce Spa is present throughout Italy
11 Plants
22 Kilns for a maximum annual production of 2 million tonnes
4 premixed material production plants
Plants
New premixed material production plants
A new Premier premixed material production facility ias opened at the plant in Campiglia Marittima [2009] and Taranto [2012].
Joint venture Suelz Lime
Unicalce, in a Joint Venture with Italcementi (which in the meantime has sold its lime production facilities to the Lecce group), starts up Suez Lime to produce lime in Egypt
Acquisition of Calci idrate srl
Unicalce acquires Calci Idrate srl, with a plant in Sedrina (BG), and the hydrated lime production business unit of the Colleferro plant, from the Italcementi Group
acquisition of Industriale Calce Spa
(Sedrina, BG)
Europrogetti Srl is established
Europrogetti Srl, an engineering company of the Group that provides the skills needed for the decisive technological leap forward, is established. Alongside lime and gravel, a diversification process is started at a plant in Terni with the production and marketing of the Premier brand of dry premixed materials.
Campania Calce spa e Latincalce Srl join the group
Campania Calce Spa (Marcianise, CE) and Latincalce Srl (Itri, LT) become part of the galaxy of the future Unicalce.
Calce Dolomia Spa e Simet Srl join the group
another important step towards the founding of Unicalce: Calce Dolomia Spa and Simet Srl, important lime and derivative production companies with plants in Genoa and Bernezzo (CN) (Calce Dolomia Spa) and Taranto (Simet Srl) become part of the Group which, by now, is increasingly taking shape.
Acquisition of Calce San Pellegrino Spa
Sider Calce acquires the controlling shareholding in Calce San Pellegrino Spa, a major competitor operating in Narni (TR).
Sider Calce Spa is founded
Dolomite Colombo's business is strengthened and it proposes a plan to Ghisalberti Spa which meets with a positive response. Thus, Sider Calce Spa is founded with a plant in Campiglia Marittima (LI).
the holding company of the future Group
Early 1960s: Dolomite Colombo acquires the shareholding of Gnecchi Donadoni Spa, becoming the holding company of the Unicalce Group which, at the time, is still in its early stages.
Dolomite Colombo is founded
Dolomite Colombo, belonging to the Colombo family, is founded in Lecco and is also engaged in the material extraction and production sector; in the late 1950s, the management is taken over by Giuseppe Colombo, a surveyor.
Giovanni Ghisalberti is founded
The Giovanni Ghisalberti company is founded in Brembilla (Bergamo). It would become Ghisalberti Spa, a pioneer in lime production for those times.
Gnecchi-Donadoni spa is founded
The Gnecchi-Donadoni Industria Lombarda delle Calci in Zolle is founded. The Maggianico (LC) plant is built in the south-eastern foothills of Lake Como. The plant was equipped with two small wood-fired kilns. In 1937 the company becomes Gnecchi Donadoni Spa
