Vigatec (Chile)
Vigatec is a Chilean corporation founded in 1980. The company headquarters is in Santiago de Chile, and it has subsidiaries in Ecuador, Bolivia and Brazil. Vigatec currently has about 200 employees.
| Type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Office equipment |
| Founded | 1980 |
| Headquarters | Santiago, Chile |
| Products | Plastic Cards, Mail Handling Equipment, etc. |
| Revenue |  S/. ? million (2006) |
 S/. ? million (2006) | |
| Website | https://web.archive.org/web/20060901194139/http://www.vigatec.cl:80/ |
Vigatec has several products and services:
- The reselling and marketing of various types of plastic cards (like: ATM cards, various credit cards, phone cards, loyalty program cards, etc.).
- Mail handling equipment.
- Control & security systems.
- Packaging equipment.
In Chile, Vigatec is the exclusive reseller of the following brands: Datacard, Pitney Bowes, Kyocera Mita, Rexel, Tempo, Mach, Linear, Synel, Secom, and Thermo Electron.
History
Vigatec was founded in 1980 as a division of Vigamil, a paper envelope manufacturing company.
In 1991, Vigatec started selling products for attendance & access control.
In 1999 the company started selling security products (alarms, CCTV equipment)
Labor oriented initiatives
Vigatec has initiated several labor environment improvement projects:
- The Second generation plan is a summer work program directed at the children (between 14 and 18 years of age) of the employees.
- Vigatec is willing to pay, for children of the employees, the registration and monthly costs of studies in the pre-university institute of the Catholic University in San Joaquín.
- An Internet for all program which means that in the summer months there is a special room with computers connected to the Internet, so the employees, with or without their children, could use them to for their personal interests.
- A Vocational & professional orientation program to help the children of their employees to explore their motivations and interests
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