| 1993 |
- Setting up of the company as a 50 000FRF (7500€)-capital Ltd company. Its creator perceived the need for software on the occasion of an internship period in a quarry and in a concrete plant, as he was a student.
- Icare launch under MS-DOS, for aggregate producers.
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| 1996 |
- Creation of wil software for the quality management in quarry laboratories.
- This new product was soon acquired by the main companies that operate in the sector (LAFARGE, RMC, COLAS…).
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| 1997 |
- Capital increase, from 50 000 to 100 000FRF (7 500 to 15 000€).
- First participation to the French mineral industry congress, in October. Since then, we have participated to this event each year.
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1998
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- Rewriting of icare, (software for quarry commercial and administrative management) under Windows®
- Growth of wil sales in France. It becomes the benchmark in aggregate and concrete laboratories.
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1999
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- Recruitment of an export sales executive.
- Wil adaptation to Spanish and British markets.
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2000
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- Implementation of an ISO 9001/2000 Quality Assurance process.
- In collaboration with the CERIB (French centre for concrete studies and research), development of Lab-IB®, a simplified version of wil adapted to the precast concrete industry.
- Development of eWilin SaaS, presented in May, at INTERMAT international exhibition, in Paris.
- Acquisition of wil licences by Aripresa, a big Spanish group.
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2002
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- Certification AQP (French association for weighing system certification)for icare.
- Arcade offers a new service as part of the customer maintenance contract: e-sam (maintenance calls follow-up): maintenance contacts consultation. This new service is available on our website customer area.
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2003
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- Participation to TP-Tech, Intermat and the Industrie Minérale congress.
- Recruitment of a new export sales executive to implement a more offensive export strategy.
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2004
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- Capital increase, from 15 000 € to 50 000 €
- wil major evolution to include the mandatory European standards and CE marking.
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2005
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- Partnership with the ENCEM (environmental consultancy office related to the French union of quarries) to develop mentol.
- Orientation of new developements under Delphi2005/.NET/SQL Server environment.
- Presentation of a comprehensive solution for the management and control of truck loadings, based on icare software, in collaboration with Mettler-Toledo (weighbridge constructor) and Berthold (nuclear detection gates).
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2007
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- Membership to Syntec-Informatique union.
- Mentolcommercial launch.
- Important evolution of wil on the occasion of the mandatory asphalt-mix CE marking in Europe from March, 2008.
- Capital increase, from 50 000 € to 100 000 €.
- Setting up of an office in Barcelona.
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2008
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- We put emphasis on the Spanish market conquest: Membership to the ASEFMA (Spanish asphalt-mix producers association) and to the AFAM (Spanish mortar producers association).
- Participation to SMOPYC (International show of public works, construction and mining machinery) in Saragossa.
- Licences sold to major producers (200K€ turnover).
- First sales of mentol in the shape of Saas subscription contracts, in France.
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2009
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- Setting up of Arcade Ibérica Software, a subsidiary company dedicated to our products commercialisation in Spain and Portugal, and later in all Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries. It is managed by David ORTOLAN.
- Arcade Ibérica Software becomes a member of the APEB (Portuguese Concrete Manufacturers Association).
- Development of billy for concrete formula design, in SaaS mode.
- Prospection mission in Mexico.
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2010
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- Creation of carmin (Computer-aided Maintenance Management System)
- New website.
- Communication improvement: Newsletter, press kit, advertisements, etc…
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