History
1961
SALCE was founded in 1961 and has always operated in the textile dyeing sector on an industrial scale, acquiring over such a long time a deep and consolidated experience of the problems inherent in the aforementioned application.



1970
In the first 20 years of its activity, SALCE designed and built thermal process controllers for in-department dyeing.
In the early 1970s, it developed the first model of a punched card dyeing programmer, which allowed a major step forward compared to the technology of the time. This model did not limit itself to controlling the temperature but allowed the programming of all the phases of a dyeing process, including automatic colour preparation and all those parameters that make up a complete dyeing cycle.
1990
In the late 1980s, SALCE began to focus its attention on the laboratory, creating a prototype of an automatic dosing machine.
At the end of this study, in 1991, Salce patented a completely innovative machine based on a revolutionary dosing system, namely entirely volumetric.
As a consequence of the great impact of the volumetric dosing machine on the market, for over 20 years SALCE’s activity has been 100% dedicated to dosing machines for the textile laboratory.
During this period the company has been constantly expanding. To date, SALCE has installed its automatic dosing machines in more than 30 countries worldwide. Many of the world’s largest textile groups are currently SALCE customers, as are many manufacturers or distributors of dyes and chemical auxiliaries and research and development institutes.
1999
Continuous investments in Research and Development allowed SALCE to introduce automatic dyeing into the laboratory in 1999, i.e. autoclaves fully integrated into volumetric dosing machines.
Thanks to this, another important step forward has been made in terms of efficiency and production capacity, and the concept of an integrated mini-laboratory has become a reality.
The results obtained in the laboratory have become much more easily transferable and repeatable in the department.
It can be said that one of the major problems of a laboratory has been brilliantly solved: REPEATABILITY WITH PRODUCTION
All this in a completely automatic way and without operator intervention
In recent years, a number of contributing factors have led to the emergence of fully automated laboratories that are now essential for ensuring efficiency and optimal performance in the context of industrial-scale dyeing operations.
Today’s laboratories are held to extremely high standards of technology and integration, and must deliver efficiency, precision, reduced operating costs, reliability, prompt and accurate responses, and environmental sustainability, all within a highly automated sampling context.
2016
The Modulab SBM has been the subject of constant updates and expansions of its functions and production capacity over the years, also being enriched with various new models of dyeing units to satisfy the most diverse needs of users.
It is a fact that this new technology represents a great step forward in the management of a textile dyehouse and constitutes a radical innovation.
2023
SALCE is perfectly aware that new demands are always coming and that others will arrive in the near future. The experience accumulated in decades of activity, combined with an unchanged passion and consolidated synergies with many end users of its products, constitute an excellent premise for a winning approach to the challenges that will come.