Fichet-Bauche
| Product type | safes and vaults |
|---|---|
| Owner | Gunnebo Security Group |
| Country | France |
| Markets | Global |
| Website | Fichet-Bauche |
Fichet-Bauche is a brand of safes and vaults with its origins in France. It specialises in products which offer certified burglary protection and/or fire protection.
The brand is widely sold and marketed in France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and French-speaking parts of Africa.
Fichet-Bauche is a brand owned by the Gunnebo Security Group.
Born 7 February 1799 in Etrepilly, France, Alexandre Fichet opened a locksmiths in Paris in 1825 at the age of 26. He registered his first patent in 1829 for a safety lock and further patents followed in 1834 and 1836.
Shortly after, Fichet set up a small workshop in Paris and began expanding into the manufacture of safes. In 1840, he made his first modern fire safe made entirely of steel and using his now renowned, Fichet lock and key. As production outgrew the workshop, Fichet built a factory in Monceau in Paris, followed by a second and third in Lyon and Marseille.
Fichet died in 1862 at the age of 63 and the business changed hands frequently from Loius and Apolline Bonnet, to Monsieur Charlier, manager of the workshops, and then to businessmen, Monsieur Guénot and Monsieur Pinot.
Nevertheless, the business continued to grow. In 1879, the Fichet company built its first bank vault room with rentable safe deposit lockers. New factories were opened one after the other, most notably in Oust-Marest in the Somme region where security locks were manufactured. This factory was supported by the nearby “Fichet Village” and by a factory in Creil which made bank safes.
On the eve of World War I, the general partnership that was Fichet became a limited partnership, and came under the management of Jacques Bournisien and Marcel Beau. A factory was set up in Sens in 1917 and two years later branches were opened all around the world, including Italy, Argentina, Spain, Belgium, Romania and Brazil.
The company was able to expand its clients’ security and installed its first industrial alarm and surveillance network in 1926. The day before World War II, Bournisien died, leaving Beau to run the company. He was aided for a time by Monsieur Nadaud, the husband of Alexandre Fichet’s great-great-granddaughter.
In 1864, Auguste-Nicolas Bauche, expert in fire-resistant materials, began to produce safes and founded his first production factory in Gueux, near Reims in France. By 1867, the Gueux workshops had become too cramped. The factory was moved to Reims with more modern workshops incorporating a technological breakthrough of the time: a cementation furnace for the extreme hardening of the surface of certain steels.
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