Kayser Italia is a Small Medium Enterprise (SME), a private independent aerospace system
engineering company, owned by Dr. Valfredo Zolesi’s family. It has been incorporated in
1986, and since 1995 it is 100% Italian property.
The company is located in the countryside
of Livorno, in the region of Tuscany, 20 Km south of the international airport of Pisa and 90
Km from Florence. In a modern building, the company has 5,000 sq. meters of property,
organized into offices, meeting rooms, conference room, laboratories, clean room,
manufacturing, inspection and integration area, and an User Support Operation center
(USOC) for the support to the execution of experiments with astronauts on board the ISS.
Since the beginning up to now, Kayser Italia has participated to over 70 space missions
with more than 110 payloads, all of them completed with full scientific, technical, economic
and programmatic success. The staff consists of over 60 high-specialized engineers, with
expertise in electronics, aeronautics, mechanics, thermodynamics, physics, computer
science, optics and molecular biology. Their design and manufacturing capabilities, joined
with a deep engineering background, have allowed the participation of the company
as both prime-contractor as well as sub-contractor to many European Space Agency
(ESA) and Italian Space Agency (ASI) programmes, especially in the area of life science
(biology and human physiology). The payloads developed by Kayser Italia have flown on
sounding rockets, on the Russian capsules Bion, Foton, Progress, Soyuz, on the Shuttle
Transportation System (STS), on SpaceX, on the Japanese HTV module, on the European
ATV module, on the Chinese Shenzhou spaceship and on the International Space Station
(ISS). Kayser Italia supports grants and partnership programs with universities and
research institutes and is actively involved in the promotion of the integration process
between large and Small Medium Enterprises working in space.
Web: www.kayser.it