Founded in 1886 as "SMI - Società Metallurgica Italiana", KME is today an industrial group with head offices in Florence and Europe-wide operations, with a leading position in the world copper processing industry.
With:
- annual production of around 570,000 tons of copper and copper alloy semi-finished products
- consolidated turnover of € 3,000 million in 98 countries
- 14 factories in the major European national markets and in China
- 2 industry-leading research centres
- a network of sales branches which cover the major European countries as well as the American and Asian markets
- a workforce of 6,700 employees in 16 countries
- a network of 21,000 business partners counting clients and suppliers.
- around 9,500 shareholders
