page_title: SAES Getters
section_title: 1940s and 50s
hierarchical_section_title: SAES Getters / History / 1940s and 50s
caption_attribution_description: English: SAES - Historical Building in Milan Italiano: SAES - Sede storica a Milano
context_page_description: SAES Getters S.p.A. is an Italian joint stock company, established in 1940. It is the parent company of the SAES industrial group, which focusses its business on the production of components and systems in advanced materials patented by the same company and used in various industrial and medical applications.
context_section_description: In 1940 the company S.A.E.S. (Società Apparecchi Electrici e Scientifici) was formed in Florence at the initiative of Ernesto Gabrielli, an engineer from Livorno and two other shareholders. The impetus for the foundation of the company was the discovery by Gabrielli of a new method for the production of getters, with nickel lids to protect barium plastics, in order to prevent the phenomenon of oxidation.
  S.A.E.S. initially devoted itself to producing time clocks and a barium-magnesium-aluminium alloy. After a few years, it transferred its headquarters to Milan and began to produce electrical resistance heaters.
  In 1946, the Della Porta and Canale families entered the shareholding structure and in 1949, Paolo della Porta joined the company, subsequently taking over management in 1952. A period began that was distinguished by major innovations, supported by the Research and Development Laboratory, notably the invention of ring-shaped getters in barium-aluminium alloy. The company expanded into Europe, appointing its first agents in France, Germany and England.
  S.A.E.S. continued to invest in scientific research during a period of major change in the electronics sector, characterised by the extensive spread of transistors, to the detriment of vacuum tubes intended for radio and television reception and transmission. In 1957 S.A.E.S. filed a patent for getters for television cathode tubes, first for black and white and then for colour television, launching production on an industrial scale.
caption: S.A.E.S. historical building in Milan.
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