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Success for all
BACCARA ® is optimistic about its next 60 years in automation and control
A leading Israeli manufacturer of precise flow control solutions and components for integrated automation systems , BACCARA ® was established in 1964 . With its products found in applications throughout industry and agriculture , the business supplies a global customer portfolio from its locations in Israel , the US , Australia , Spain , and India .
As Paul Steiner , CEO , explains , BACCARA ® is 100 percent owned by kibbutz Geva . “ Kibbutzim began in agriculture but began to broaden their activities into manufacturing in the 60s . At this time BACCARA ® Geva got involved with Maxam , a British company , working with their technology , and we started manufacturing solenoid valves .”
Over the ensuing years BACCARA ® expanded into industrial automation , while continuing to develop its solenoid technology . It celebrated the kibbutz ’ 80th anniversary by introducing the G80 series of smaller valves , and then experienced another milestone in the early 1980s when it won the distribution rights in Israel for SMC Corporation , a Japanese company . “ I think we were their first distributor outside of Japan , and we maintained that relationship for 40 years . They
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