Our history
Urmet’s history revolves around a tradition of excellence and innovation, and a constant commitment to providing advanced security and communications solutions. With a history of success and a wide range of high-quality products and services, Urmet stands as an industry leader that’s ready to meet the needs of customers worldwide.
"There are still industrial players who know how to take on, endure, engage with and accept risks and challenges.This is what our country needs."Massimo Mondardini (President 1933-2015)
In 2024, the URMET brand received the recognition of “Marchio Storico di interesse nazionale” (Historical Brand of National Interest, in English) from the Italian Ministry of Business and Made in Italy. It is an important milestone for those Italian companies that have achieved an iconic status in the international panorama, identifying products that embody the essence of Made in Italy and that have become symbols of Italian style in the world. The Historical Brand therefore rewards the role played by URMET for the Italian industry and the value of a brand that has always held high the flag of quality and excellence.
Urmet's history is characterized by a tradition of excellence, innovation and constant commitment to providing advanced security and communications solutions. With a history of success and a wide range of high-quality products and services, Urmet stands as an industry leader, ready to meet the needs of customers around the world.
It's the turning point. The production of the first analog telephones demonstrated to the market the design autonomy and technological competence of the company.
It is the birth of "domestic telephones" which controls access to Italian homes.
Today it is an iconic object, but for a long time it represented one of the most used means of communication in everyday life by ordinary people. Practical and economical, it has changed the habits of people throughout the peninsula.
A monitor and an intercom are placed side by side, connected and inserted into a plastic-coated wooden cabinet to create a video intercom. The idea took some time to be well received, becoming a massively distributed product a few years later.
Another milestone in the history of telecommunications: an additional tool for using public telephones, without having to search for or change coins to pay for phone calls.
The era of services begins: what do Italians need to make everyday life easier? Services that simplify usual activities and satisfy any need immediately, improving the experience of those who use them.
Dedicated to integrated communication, security and building automation solutions.
From the experience and synergy of two large groups: Simon SA, a Spanish company, world leader in the civil series market, and Urmet S.p.A.
Digital and IP cable video door entry systems facilitate installation and integrate various communication and security functions. It is the new communication standard.
Solidity, quality, growth: "Seventy-five years of technology and innovation".
With solutions for the automation of the electrical system, for remote management of lighting and shutters via apps. Let's start talking about smart homes.
In these 80 years we have not lost sight of the value of the relationship with our customers, continuously ensuring assistance, quality and availability.
The first modular entry panel on the market without a frame and the thinnest on the market in the wall-mounted version.
And it is always ready to intercept the needs of the market and respond with ad hoc solutions.
Let's not call them video intercoms anymore, because they are now control hubs for the advanced and smart functions of the home's electrical system.
The Italian Ministry of Business and Made in Italy recognizes the Urmet brand as a “Historical Brand of National Interest”, including the company among those Italian companies that have achieved an iconic status in the international panorama, identifying products that embody the essence of Made in Italy and that have become symbols of Italian style in the world.
Urmet is committed to investing in Research and Development, and employs over 50 individuals at the Turin location alone, where the development activities for the software and hardware components of the company’s communication and security systems are coordinated. The pursuit of new solutions is also promoted through the constant improvement of the design dynamics, with the implementation of transparent processes and the active involvement of the stakeholders included in the projects, while at the same time upholding sustainability as a distinctive element and an added value for the business and the market on which the company operates.
The respect for sustainability, as a distinctive element and added value for the company and for the market in which it operates, is nowadays a priority for Urmet, which is making a concrete commitment to pursuing a business model that is increasingly attentive to the environment and social well-being, starting from the products themselves and their production process.