Company premises cover a surface area of 17,000 square metres, with the various production units occupying 8,000 square metres of covered area, from the raw materials warehouse to the finished products warehouse whose 4,800 cubic metres store the 4,000 products to be distributed to 1,500 customers in Italy and in the rest of the world.

In the production departments, 71 staff produce 15,000 locks per day on 12 auto¬matic production lines that allow full control of operations and automatic packa¬ging of every single product.

It should be emphasised that all lock components use non-polluting materials and the production cycle is pollution-free, which have led to a strong recognition of the Company as ecocompatible.

To talk about locks for wooden doors means first stepping back in time as far as 1830 when Giuseppe & F.lli Bonaiti was founded, to the era when small Lecco area workshops produced the base metal used to create a series of components. Our workshop gradually increased in size and alongside the fastenings and spring catches we also find bed warmers, chestnut roasting ovens, bed bases and the tubing used for headboards, until 1936 when we began to produce external appli¬cation door locks.

At the beginning of the war we created a lock model fitted into the front of the door, an absolute novelty in those days, based on the British models patented at that time: hence the term “patented” which went on to become an everyday term to identify this type of lock.

The workshop of once upon a time, which over the years was gradually transfor¬med into a production company with a staff of 500 to meet demand in the 1990s, gave rise to a spin-off business that became Bonaiti Serrature, handling all stages from design and production through to distribution in Italy and throughout the world of locks for internal wooden doors, with the aim of concentrating financial and human resources into the technological development of these products. At the start of the 21st century production of magnetic locks began, representing the result of all the research and development in recent years.