Italy
With over 70 years of industrial presence, Thales is a solid reference point for technological innovation and customer proximity in Italy. Headquartered in Florence, the company has other offices and sites in Rome, Milan, Turin, Chieti and L’Aquila. Including Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture with Leonardo, Thales employs over 3000 professionals in Italy.
Integrating global expertise with local excellence in Defence, Civil Aviation, Cyber & Digital, Thales is a trusted technological partner and service provider for local institutions, Armed Forces and enterprises. The Group hosts in Italy the competence centres for navigation aids and non-radar surveillance and for security solutions and airport operations to serve both national and international markets.
It also provides integrated logistic support to the national customers, in particular through its naval service centres at La Spezia and Taranto arsenals and its avionics support centre in Vergiate.
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Key figures
Shaping the future with local commitment and global vision
Thales is deeply embedded in Italy’s industrial and academic ecosystem, with a strong track record of long-term partnerships and collaborations pushing innovation further.
The company is committed to enhancing the Italian network of universities, start-ups and SMEs through an open innovation approach and it proposes itself both as a vehicle for the development of research projects addressed to global markets and as an industrial partner for the design of products and solutions.
Thales in Italy anticipates the challenges of the future also by supporting and interacting with local administrations and Institutions, with the Italian and European Space Agencies and other strategic bodies to guarantee sustainable security for the nation.
Funded research programmes, like Horizon Europe or EDA, are another key driver for innovation and development of new business in civil and defense markets.
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Defence
Alongside the Italian national defence
Thales in Italy has been supporting the Italian Armed Forces for over 30 years with a significant installed base on board of the main aeronautical, land and naval platforms: sonars, radios, electronic warfare, NAVAIDS.
These technologies are complemented by an entirely Italian team of experts with strong engineering capabilities in radio communications, system integration, cyber security, air traffic management, CBRN and served by dedicated local support centres for naval, radio communications and avionics.
Integrated Service Centre for the sonars mounted on boards the Italian Navy minehunters. © Silvio Palladino - Thales
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Public security
Ensuring security across critical sites
Thales in Italy provides security and operations management solutions for critical infrastructures such as airports with significant domestic and international references.
From its Florence site, it has developed and delivered to airports across the world the AiRise solution, a scalable suite designed to make airport smarter, more efficient and safer, offering end-to-end security management of airport infrastructures, operations, data, passengers and personnel.
In addition, Thales supports ID and border management, public safety and law enforcement challenges through the identity and biometric solutions developed in its competence centre in Turin.
Civil aviation
Supporting sustainable air mobility worldwide
The historical site of Gorgonzola is the Group’s competence center for conventional air navigation systems and non-radar surveillance. Here, solutions that help manage air traffic in an increasingly efficient and sustainable way are designed, produced and installed in turn-key solutions.
Worldwide, the systems built in Gorgonzola cover more than 60% of those currently in service and contribute to creating a trusted airspace for aircrafts to take off, navigate and land safely anytime and anywhere.
In nearby Vergiate, Thales hosts its local avionics support centre for the maintenance of equipment installed on board aircrafts and helicopters to serve national fixed and rotary wing platforms manufacturers, airlines and Armed Forces.
DVOR in Sorrento © Thales
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Cyber & Digital
Front runners for digitalization in the country
Thales in Italy is a key player in the banking and payment sector with a growing attention towards the use of eco-friendly payment cards and the digital offering provided to the main domestic financial institutions.
Thales also holds a leadership position within the mobile connectivity sector collaborating with operators as they transition to eSIM solutions and providing advanced connectivity solutions for the latest generation 5G networks.
Thanks to its technological state of the art solutions and a local team of cyber experts Thales is a strong player in cybersecurity and data protection, offering all the services an organization needs to protect and manage data, identity and intellectual property through encryption, advanced key management, tokenization, authentication and access management.
Space
Leading space exploration
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, operates in Italy with 2800 employees spread over 4 sites, in Rome, Turin, L’Aquila and Milan.
It is the leading satellite operator in Europe and has over 50 years of experience in building systems and equipment for telecommunications, Earth observation, space exploration and navigation, environmental management, science and orbital infrastructures. The company contributes to many of today’s leading space programs, working for both government and commercial customers, including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Italian space agency (ASI).
Thales Alenia Space in Italy invests massively in Research & Development to support a continuous stream of innovations and considers space as a new horizon, which makes it possible to improve and make life on Earth more sustainable.
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LATEST NEWS FOR ITALY
- Enterprise
EOLO chooses Thales to expand high-speed Internet access in Italy
- Space
Thales Alenia Space unveils project to develop Space Smart Factory, one of the largest facilities of its kind in Europe
- Space
A consortium of companies led by Thales Alenia Space signs contract with Italian Space Agency for an In-Orbit Servicing demonstration mission
- Space
Thales Alenia Space wins contracts for IRIDE radar and optical satellites
- Group
Thales reports its 2022 full-year results
- Europe
Thales provides maintenance and support of the S1850M radar for France, Italy and UK navies
- Europe
Thales awarded a contract to enhance operational efficiency at Linate and Malpensa Airports in Milan
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Legal notices
Thales has adopted a Code of Ethics aimed at defining a series of principles of business ethics that the Company recognises as its own and with which it requires compliance by the Corporate Bodies, its employees and all those who cooperate in any way in the pursuit of the Company's aims.
Thales also has an Ethics Officer, who aims to develop rules and organisational behaviour within the Group that are in line with international best practices in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility and monitors the concrete implementation of the indications contained in the Code of Ethics.
Whistleblowing
Thales is committed to respecting the laws and ethical principles that regulate its activities. In order to enable employees to report suspected misconduct in the safest and most confidential conditions, the Group has launched the internal platform "Thales Alert Line".
International Standards
Thales in Italy is currently certified according to the following international standards:
- ISO 9001, ISO EN 9100, ISO EN 9120
- AS9120 ISO EN 9110
- AS9110 - Quality management system
- ISO 14001 - Environmental management system
- ISO 45001 - Safety management system
- ISO 27001 - Information Security Management System
- ISO 37001 - Management systems for the prevention of corruption
- ISO 50001 - Energy Management system Legal Notice
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