Unicalce

Our history

The history of the Unicalce Group is the story of men and women who believed in the mission of doing business, of developing an industry as a value that goes beyond the simple creation of economic wealth.

Much has changed between the installation of the first lime production kiln in Lecco in 1923 and the current 22 modern kilns located all over the country with 500 employees who support the company.

Time, technology, and the speed with which a company must make the right decisions have changed. However, the values on which our way of doing business is based have not changed: professionalism, ethics and fairness in the conduct of business, attention to people, dynamism and attitude for quality.

TODAY
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 

2012-2009
New premixed material production plants

A new Premier premixed material production facility ias opened at the plant in Campiglia Marittima [2009] and Taranto [2012].

2007
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
2000
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
1997
Unicalce Spa is founded
Unicalce Spa is founded from the successful collaboration between Gnecchi-Donadoni and Ghisalberti Spa
1994
acquisition of Industriale Calce Spa
(Sedrina, BG)
1991
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.
1990
Primi anni '90
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.
1980
Fine anni '80
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.
1986
Acquisition of Calce San Pellegrino Spa
Sider Calce acquires the controlling shareholding in Calce San Pellegrino Spa, a major competitor operating in Narni (TR).
1969
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).
1960
Primi anni '60
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.

 
1936
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.
1927
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.

1923
28 march
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
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