Timeline
was born as a family printing press
By the hand of the Calmell family, during the 1920s, in a small shop on Gran de Gràcia Street, in the city of Barcelona.
Fifty years later, at the beginning of the year 1970
it was incorporated as a Limited Company and part of the workshop was moved to the ground floor of a building on Siracusa Street, also in the Gràcia neighborhood of Barcelona. They began to manufacture the chips with magnetic strips used by the old computers, thus initiating the bet that Calmell has always maintained with innovation and technology and that has allowed him to evolve and renew his projects to the present.
During the decade of the 70s the growth of the company accelerated and the partners decide to professionalize the management hiring external directors to the family that contribute a new vision and new ideas.
In 1980, Calmell already occupies the four floors of the building on Siracusa Street and has left the old place where he was born. There is a change of shareholders, with the purchase of most of the shares to the Calmell family by the new management, which allows new initiatives, investments in machinery and new products to facilitate the growth and consolidation of the company. company. Following the objective of technically evolving, Calmell specializes in products that incorporate magnetic stripe: highway toll tickets, savings passbooks and magnetic cards for public transport. The company starts its internationalization.
The first technological leap takes place at the hands of “La Caixa”, which takes the decision to provide 24-hour Customer Service through the “Automatic Teller Machines”.
Calmell was one of the six companies in the world that collaborated with the initial development of the Mifare Classic chip
The company moves to Montcada i Reixac
In the year 2020, almost a century after it began to operate in that small workshop on Gran de Gracia Street
Calmell will celebrate its 50th anniversary as a public limited company. The culture, the laws, the technology and the market in general have evolved and been transformed throughout all these years and Calmell has been adapting to overcome all these changes.