ZADI’S HISTORY
“Be a cohesive group, made up of honest and responsible people, strongly oriented to knowledge, innovation, growth, with the ambition to become better and open up to new possibilities. To act with awareness of the important history that we have behind us, the capabilities we possess, the knowledge we have yet to know and that through our work we have the opportunity to acquire.
ZADI’S HISTORY
January 1962
1962 THE FOUNDATION OF ZADI
The foundation of the acronym ZADI comes from the names of the founders, Antonio Zavatti and Enrico Diacci, two employees of Magneti Marelli that, after having left the company, undertook their own designs and manufacture of molds for Magneti Marelli.
January 1970
1970 NATIONAL FIELD LEADERSHIP
The company began production of locks and in 1968 became a supplier of Piaggio, a springboard that will bring ZADI, within a few years, to be a national leader in the field of locks for motorcycles.
January 1977
1977 THE BORN OF CSI
With the aim of having an higher quality, especially as regards the assembly phase, ZADI constitutes CSI Srl, a small, but highly qualified company, dedicated to the design and construction of industrial automation.
January 1980
1980 INTERNATIONALIZATION AND EUROPEAN LEADERSHIP
CSI began working with the Group YAMAHA and more specifically with its French localization, YAMAHA-MBK, which will see ZADI present with its kit of locks for the model BOOSTER, the most successful scooter of that era. The Company launched a major challenge: to become number one in Europe in the field of safety components for motorcycles by 1990.
January 1990
1990 INNOVATION AND DIVERSIFICATION
In order to meet this growing competition arising from asian producers, Zadi policy IS ORIENTATED TOWARDS TWO KEY LEVERS: research and development and product diversification. Of these years are the acquisition of German competitor GKS NEIMAN, and GIUSSANI BROTHERS an historical company in the lock industry.
January 2001
2001 FROM THE SUPPLY OF PRODUCTS TO THE OFFER OF A COMPLETE SYSTEM
The Group continues to grow with the acquisition of a company that, in a hundred years, has covered the history of the motorcycle: FRATELLI PAGANI of Milan, a manufacturer of lighting equipment and instrumentation under the brand CEV.
January 2013
2013 THE RE-LAUNCH
After going through a period of difficulties linked to the crisis in international markets, finally in 2013 Zadi joined the HB4 Group, an emerging Italian industrial group, modern and dynamic.
January 2014
2014 ECIE LTD. AND ITS CHINESE SUBSIDIARY ECIE CHENGDU
ECIE LTD (in Lainate) and its chinese subsidiary ECIE CHENGDU become part of the group. They are specializing in the production of headlights and dashboards for the motorcycles, cars and agricultural machinery sectors.
From this moment begins the period of synergies between the group’s companies, that have being operating in different markets.
2014 CEV LAB, GROUP COMPANY DEDICATED TO R&D
Result of this policy is the creation of industrial crossover CEV lab, group company dedicated to R&D and testing for all companies in the group.