UCS Ultraflex Control Systems srl

Ultraflex Control Systems, briefly named UCS, is an Italian family-owned company, part of the Ultraflex Group.UCS is based in Busalla, close to Genoa, and the products are Made in Italy.It is a leading company in the Fenestration and Building Automation Industry and a manufacturer of Naturaland Smoke Ventilation Systems; its focus today is the integration of Window Automation into BMS-BuildingManagement Systems.Its activity in the remote control for windows started about 50 years ago, in the 70s, as a division of Ultraflex.In 1988 UCS becomes an independent company, fully dedicated to the window controls and starts to design andmanufacture electrical actuators, creating the conditions for a rapid expansion in the European Market first andtherefore in the rest of the world.In 1999 it is the first European Company to certify an actuator according to UL standards in order to address theAmerican market.The export share is consistently higher than 80% of the turnover, counting on a worldwide distribution networkthat contributes to the realization of hundreds of important, prestigious and cutting-edge projects.Pioneer of the Smoke Ventilation in Italy, UCS represents Italy in European Technical Committees for thedevelopment of Technical Standard for Smoke Ventilation. The UCS range includes electrical actuators andpanels tested in conformity to the European Standard EN 12101-2 and EN 12101-10 for Natural Smoke and HeatExhaust Ventilation (NSHEV) Systems.UCS started 10 years ago the development of the first “intelligent” actuator (programmable and addressable) tosatisfy the needs of increasingly sophisticated architectural scenarios connected to the building automation.The experience gained by the company and the group in over 85 years of activity has led to invest human andeconomic resources in a large area for a laboratory equipped with advanced instrumentation and automaticcontrols, capable of operating more than 30 windows simultaneously and continuously.We constantly check the quality of components, finished products and the consistency of their performance.The modular structures also allow us to test new installations and develop new solutions for a constantdevelopment of our product range.