One 100% Italian product of a company that holds its own capital tightly, resisting international sirens. Helmet risks becoming a rare case in the industry that revolves around the bike, and beyond. Created from scratch in 2004 by Angelo Gotti, exports protective helmets all over the world for sports activities (cycling, but also horse riding and skiing) and also for safety at work, giving large multinationals a hard time thanks above all to the quality of the products.
This is where the need for a production entirely on the national territory comes from – indeed, 99% in the province of Bergamo as they like to underline by the headquarters in Chiuduno – precisely because “the total control of the quality of the supply chain is essential for those who, like us, create products to protect customers and therefore cares about their safety ”, underlines the general manager Diego ZambonIt matters little that 90% of helmets cross the Italian border to protect the heads of sportsmen and workers, especially in Northern Europe and the United States, as well as in Asia.
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The pursuit of quality
The strong point, which allows the little Kask to compete on high-end products even against names of the caliber of 3M, lies precisely in the pursuit of quality. “Advancing in the field of patents, those concerning the industrial part as well as the products themselves, and developing solutions together with our customers have always been our guidelines”, explains Zambon.
Product development alongside customers
Whether they are the cycling teams as has happened over time with the battleship Sky then led by the British champion Chris Froome to which Kask has immediately linked the name or major clients like the New York and Chicago metros: we sit at the table, we study the solution together and in many cases we also work on consumer training.
At full speed, despite Covid
Meanwhile, the Covid cyclone certainly did not slow down the company’s path: 2020 ended with a turnover up by 40% at 53.4 million euros and in the United States the progress was even higher. The boom of the bicycle and the acceleration on construction sites (a market, that of occupational safety products, from which Kask derives more than half of its revenues) have certainly given a hand to overcome the crisis, together with the fact that suppliers of materials before, essentially polymer producers, they were all Europeans and did not delay deliveries of materials.