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Since 1961, we have been working in the high-end construction and furniture manufacturing industry, offering a service of excellence from integrated design to production, from development and management up to assembly and maintenance, always striving for the highest quality.
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Engineer Giovanni Tonini and his son, Engineer Leonardo, found Sice Srl (Società Italiana di Costruzioni Edili), which develops its activities in the field of traditional construction, and Previt SpA (Prefabbricati Vermiculite Italiana), which patents and produces in its Segrate factory a system of panels insulated with vermiculite, easy and quick to install.
During this decade, Previt Spa develops the design and production of industrial prefabs incorporating innovative technical solutions. Sice srl consolidates its skills in the restoration and renovation of entire buildings, and begins to collaborate with the emerging fashion sector, which identifies Sice as a partner up to its stringent standards.
Sice srl merges with Previt spa and, under the guidance of arch. Monica Tonini, the activity concentrates on traditional building and restoration work. In 1990, the entry of engineer Arturo Caprio into Sice Previt gives the company a decisive turn towards the retail world, fostering the expansion of the clientele on an international basis.
The Heavy Metalwork department is set up to produce the iron structures required for construction sites. In this way, the interaction among the productive departments of the factory is promoted, improving speed of execution and quality control. The company invests in the training of its employees, in order to obtain all the relevant qualifications for welding processes.
The Wood Carpentry department is opened. The first products are destined for the building sites, but the importance of integrating the construction activity with the production of furniture for customers soon becomes clear. To this aim, major investments are made in staff training and the acquisition of state-of-the-art machinery and software.
The activities of the metalwork department expand: the production of shop windows, gates and iron railings begins, although the real development of the Light Metalwork department is the production of large back structures for the increasingly sophisticated furnishing of fashion boutiques. The first laser tube-cutting machine is purchased, improving the quality and speed of production.
The Steelwork department, equipped for polishing and bending metal furniture elements, is created in order to meet customers’ design requirements. The department grows with the gradual acquisition of more advanced machinery and the training of workers capable of performing increasingly refined processes. Manual laser welding cabins are built and certified with the guidance of engineer Leonardo Caprio.
The Marble and Glass Department is created in an effort to offer more services to customers. Once again, resources are allocated to the training of employees and the purchase of the latest generation of machinery. Continuous, intense and persistent research allows Sice Previt to carry out complex works on both marble and glass, the great satisfaction of its customers.
The constant development of the business in France and Great Britain makes it necessary to have a stable presence on the ground. This leads to the establishment of the subsidiaries Sice France sarl and Sice UK Ltd, whose organisational structures favour the commercial relationship with customers and the management of orders, both from a technical-logistical and from an administrative point of view.
In parallel with its traditional activities, Sice Previt expresses its passion for making in new ways: the SP_LAB experimental design laboratory is created, to give vent to the creativity and technical skills acquired in almost twenty years of experience in the production of high quality furniture. The first tables of the SP_ ZERO line are presented in 2023 and 2024 in two exhibitions organised for the Milan Fuorisalone.
Sice Previt turns its gaze to the challenges of the future, investing in process efficiency through the implementation of ERP systems and the creation of new synergies with national and international partners. The company is increasingly involved in the processing of large multi-year construction sites that require the integration of building and furniture manufacturing.
In January 2025 ‘Opera-io’, a site-specific work created for Sice Previt by artist Giulio Alvigini (👉@makeitalianartgreatagain) was installed in Via degli Alpini as part of the programme #ProdurreFuturo, promoted by #Aidaf (Italian Association of Family Businesses) and @fondazionemadeincloister to stimulate fruitful interaction between enterprises and contemporary art. Alvigini's...
In 2005, Stefano and Dolce Gabbana purchased a historic space in the city of Milan, the monumental Metropol cinema in Viale Piave - built in the 1940s but now little frequented given the dominant phenomenon of multiplexes - and restored it, renovating the spaces with a touch of their favourite...
In 2016, the specialist magazine Verniciatura del Legno dedicated an editorial with an interview to Sice Previt, pointing to it as an example of a ‘virtuous’ company focused on innovation. From the Q&A with Arturo Caprio, it emerges that Sice, as well as being able to reinvent itself thoroughly following the...
In 2013 Segrate Oggi dedicated an in-depth article to us, as an entrepreneurial reality rooted in the town for over 50 years and still in full development. We recognise ourselves in the fine portrait sketched by the author, Beppe Maseri, who not only presented our activities but also emphasised the...
In 2013, one of our long-standing clients asked us to take on the first ever realisation of the Maison au Bord de l'Eau, a historic project conceived by the pioneer of modernist architecture Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999). Assembled and opened to the public for the first time in summer 2014 on the...
A rich article dedicated to Sice Previt by the trade magazine Il Nuovo Cantiere analyzes as "case study" the construction of the building that since 2008 houses our offices in Via degli Alpini, Segrate, in the historical headquarters of Sice Previt production departments. A rich article dedicated to Sice Previt by...
In 2017, we worked together with the company OpenCare, which specialises in moving historical artefacts, on a complex and delicate operation: transporting and setting up the large 19th-century Merz-Repsold telescope, which measures 7m in height and 5m in length, at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan. The...
In 2008, Sice participated as general contractor to the construction of the iconic new Dolce&Gabbana headquarters in Via Broggi, Milan. Designed by the Piuarch studio to fuse fashion and architecture in a surprising way, the building is made almost immaterial by the decision to create an external cladding of aluminium...
One of the most important jobs we have handled in the retail construction sector is certainly the construction of the Apple Store in Milan: located in Piazza Liberty, it is the first flagship store of the brand in Italy. Built according to a new concept that focuses on knowledge of the...
In 2014 we had the opportunity to publish a first-person account of our company in Dedalo, the magazine of Assimprendil Ance (the association of construction companies in the provinces of Milan, Lodi, Monza and Brianza). Written by the architect Monica Tonini, co-owner of the company, the article briefly retraces the history...
