New Showroom at the headquarters of CoMETA spa in Barberino Tavarnelle, an industrial museum dedicated to operators displaying solutions and products from FAAC Technologies group companies

Nine hundred square meters of exposure between Florence and Siena, in the heart of the great Italian beauty, in a symbolic and evocative place where tradition coexists with innovation.

FAAC Technologies inaugurated in recent days its new showroom in Barberino Tavarnelle, in the building of the historical headquarters of CoMETA S.p.A., a leading company in the field of security solutions recently acquired by the Italian multinational company of vehicular and pedestrian automation and access control. The project of the innovative multifunctional showroom stems from FAAC's desire to create a meeting point on the national territory where it can present the best of its solutions to professionals in the sector.

The ideal spaces in which to showcase FAAC's products, along with those of CoMETA S.p.A itself and Magnetic-another FAAC Technologies Group company, among the world leaders in the pedestrian and vehicular access control market-are those, upgraded for the occasion, of Via Leonardo da Vinci 116 in Barberino Tavarnelle. In the same municipality, almost 40 years ago, CoMETA was born, today one of the leading European players in physical security solutions (security & safety) such as locks, security cabins, portals with interlocked door systems, access control systems.

Next to the production plant, where 75 employees now work (there are 101 in total with CoMETA's branches in Padua and Cinisello Balsamo), the old headquarters building has been transformed into a large showroom thanks to a project by architects Flavio Cambi and Barbara Fitzi of Studio Fonderia 51 in Florence. The space is conceived as an industrial museum, so that visitors can have a direct experience that from the history of the birth of the group's brands - FAAC, CoMETA and Magnetic mainly - arrives at the present but with a special look at innovative choices. In fact, the intention is, in addition to the fundamental function of expo, to make this place a laboratory of ideas and images about the future. The large central staircase, which can be transformed into a visual auditorium during exhibitions, becomes the fulcrum around which products alternate from time to time. The showroom also includes an elevated transit floor, a terrace on the expo below, and a conference room.