Vigatec (Chile)
Chilean corporation
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.
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.
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