Datalogic is a global leader in automatic data capture and process automation markets with a unique portfolio of products to provide you with smart, interconnected devices able to protect, identify, sense, check and mark. Datalogic solutions help to increase the efficiency and quality of processes in the Retail, Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics and Healthcare industries, along the entire value chain.
Romano Volta founded the company in 1972 and began production of photoelectric sensors for automation. The company was one of the first to begin developing barcode reading devices at the end of the 1970s. Datalogic became highly renowned and the premier manufacturer for data collection hardware in Europe. Excellent workmanship and outstanding product design quickly convinced customers in industry, production and trade.
Nowadays, Datalogic, headquartered in Bologna, Italy, employs more than 3,200 employees throughout thirty countries. Datalogic has been quoted on the Italian stock market since 2001 and achieved revenues of 631 million euros in 2018. With more than 1,200 patents, Datalogic invests over 9% of revenues in the R&D sector every year.