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SICAMB was established in 1975 as a joint venture by Aeronautica Macchi in conjunction with British Martin Baker.
In 1976, the Company started its manufacturing activities in provisory premises until 1981, when it moved to its current site. Facilities were further improved between 1989 and 1996 with the inauguration of a second production plant. Today the Company premises cover 18,000 m2 and the number of employees is about 350.
Aermacchi finalised the acquisition of SIAI Marchetti in January 1997 and expanded its aircraft trainer programmes range. Over the last 35 years, Aermacchi and SIAI Marchetti have sold about 2,000 of their training aircraft to 40 customer nations and through SICAMB they have fitted many of them with Martin-Baker seats.
SICAMB produces ejection seats for Italian Air Force aircraft and for many foreign air forces. It also manufactures crashworthy seats for helicopter crews (EC-145, EH-101, A-129, AB-139, CRV, S-76). Other product activities cover manufacturing of aerostructures for different civil (AIRBUS A-380, BOEING 717-200, BOEING DC-8, BOEING MD-11, DO-328, EC-135, FALCON 900, FALCON 2000) and military programmes (AMX, ATL2, C-27J, MB339, EUROFIGHTER).
The Company also offers product support through more than 80 ejection seat maintenance-training courses, four sets of ejection seat technical manuals (operation, maintenance and illustrated components list) and ILS analysis for EFA hydraulic valves.
During its 25 years of experience, SICAMB has manufactured and assembled 1270 ejection seats, more than 900 main structural assemblies for many different aircraft, more than 300 equipments and delivered more than 150 thrust reversers.
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