Fichet-Bauche

Fichet-Bauche is a brand of safes, vaults, and locks produced by Fichet Security Solutions, a business owned by OpenGate Capital.

An additional factory was set up in Sens in 1917 and two years later branches were opened around the world, including Italy, Argentina, Spain, Belgium, Romania and Brazil.

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.

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.

Working for the national defence ministry, the factory was destroyed once more by the Germans in 1940 and four years later was partially reconstructed as a repair workshop for American tanks.

[1] The corporate headquarters was transferred to Clamart in Vélizy and, in parallel, a new factory was built in Carignan for the production of fire resistant safes.

A factory designed for the manufacture of vault room doors and safes was built in Barcelona, and new offices were opened in Argentina, Brazil, Portugal, Malaysia and Hong Kong.