50 YEARS
The story of a journey to celebrate 50 years of people and products.
2024 is a special year for Fapim: our fiftieth anniversary!
Fifty years of overcoming challenges, creating innovative products, and evolving from small workshops into ever larger, well-maintained, and technologically advanced industrial facilities. Fifty years of enthusiasm and passion that unite two generations of ownership and over five hundred employees, who together have established one of the most robust, world-renowned manufacturing companies in Tuscany, serving as a global reference point for metal doors and windows hardware accessories.
Range of cremone bolts, handles and handles with rounded shapes as trendy, at the end of the 90s its sinuous lines have made fall in love the market and not only the Italian market, enjoying great success. In that moment Fapim production is equipped with a high-performance die-casting department to be able to produce the new rounded shapes with impeccable quality. With Nefer, the change in trend towards painted accessories, and no longer exclusively anodized ones, also materializes. From this need begins a large investment in the painting system to offer an ever wider and more high-performance range of finishes up to the very recent Clean Hand antibacterial paint.
The Blitz range hinge for window was the result of the constant price battle with the competition on this type of products, which are very popular but at the same time simple. The Fapim strategy was to redesign the production process to optimize costs, thanks to important initial investments for cutting the extruded profile and processing the counter-plates. Winning choice: even today Blitz and window hinges are the products with the highest sale numbers in Fapim
The Atlas latch was created with particular attention to design, offering a snap cover painted in many standard finishes to cover the fixing screws. We are in the early 90s and Fapim continues to enrich the accessories ranges dedicated to the door with Titan and Atlas latches which still today – after over 30 years – remain among the products on sale, not at all affected by time!
The Loira bearing hinge has become an iconic product for Fapim, created with the specific project of aggressively attacking the European market and completely succeeding. It was one of the best-selling products ever, accompanied by many declinations and variations that have followed one another over the years up to the very current Loira+, each time offering the market innovation, quality and design. Loira also meant for Fapim an absolutely innovative production system for those years with numerically controlled production lines. Loira was also the protagonist of the 50+1 exhibition promoted by Museimpresa which debuted in Milan in 2012 and then continued as a traveling exhibition in Italy and abroad.
It is a lever handle for window vertical movement, created for the first time starting from extruded profiles. The first Fapim product with a plastic insert on the handle to improve ergonomics, together with the Tuscania cremone bolt, it opened the strategic market of southern Italy, which supported the company’s growth until the opening towards foreign markets.
Designed by Sergio Pacini, one of the three founders of Fapim, it had an off-centre handle which required less effort when rotating to open. Another interesting feature was the ease of assembly: the knob simply screwed onto a pre-assembled boss. It was the first successful Fapim product, which remained in production until 2010 and is still present on front doors across half of Italy!
