Montecatini Terme
In 1940 the company S.A.E.S. (Società Apparecchi Electrici e Scientifici) was formed in Florence at the initiative of Ernesto Gabbrielli, an engineer from Montecatini Terme and two other shareholders. The impetus for the foundation of the company was the discovery by Gabbrielli of a new method for the production of getters, with nickel lids to protect barium plastics, in order to prevent the phenomenon of oxidation.