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KME in short
KME Group is a pan-European industrial group with a leading position in the global market for copper and copper alloy products.
Founded in 1886 as "SMI - Società Metallurgica Italiana", KME Group 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
KME Group is today:
- Among the first fifteen multinational corporations in Italy
- The number one Group in the world in the production of semi-finished copper and copper alloy products, with a product range including special high technology components
- One of the first eight industrial groups in the world in the non-ferrous metals sector
- One of the first thirty industrial groups in the world in the metals sector (ferrous and non-ferrous)
BRAND
On 1 May 2007 KME Group adopted the single brand KME® to identify all its subsidiaries, whose plants are located in Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain and China.
DEAL OF THE YEAR 2006 FOR KME
After a year full of change and achievement, KME Group was recognised by the international finance community for the financial contracts stipulated the previous year with GE Commercial Finance and the pool of banks headed by Deutsche Bank, for a total value of EUR 1.65 billion.
The Group was awarded with the prestigious “Deal of the year 2006” by the international trade publication "Trade Finance", with the “Best Deals of 2006” by the international trade publication "Global Trade Review" and with the “Deals of the year ‘06” by the international trade publication "Trade and Forfaiting Review".
The three magazines voted the contract as one of the most innovative of the year for its complexity and for the solutions implemented at a Pan-European level.
