Laboratory & People

- About 8-10 new inventions per year are protected by patent application filings
- Over 300 inventions (SAES case/Patent Families) in 70 years
- A high percentage of net sales allocated to R&I every year
- State-of-the-art corporate laboratories covering a surface of over 3,300 sq. m.
- More than 150 highly skilled people engaged in RDI activities world-wide: almost 17% of the total workforce of the Group:
- about 50% are graduated (mainly in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering and Material Science)
- 20% of graduated are PhD
- 233 Scientific Papers and Conference Proceeding published in the last 20 years
- Strong cooperation with Universities and R&D centers