Picard Serrures celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Élysée and receives the 1st A2P @ certification

A French company specializing in high security, Picard Serrures is celebrating its 300th anniversary in 2020. In this anniversary year, the company has just embodied French know-how at the Great Exhibition of Made in France held at the Palais de l'Elysée, and receive the 1st European A2P @ certification for its Ermétis® Tapkey® connected lock.

Presence 3, the high security lock is exposed in the lounges of the Élysée

Based in Feuquières-en-Vimeu in Picardy, historic stronghold of the locksmith, Picard Serrures was one of 101 companies chosen by the jury chaired by Agnès Pannier-Runacher, secretary of state to the Minister of the Economy, to represent the French know-how during the Great Made in France Exhibition at the Palais de l'Élysée.

The first manufacturer on the armored door market to have obtained the Origine France Garantie label, Picard Serrures, selected from 1750 candidates from metropolitan France and overseas, represented the Somme department. After the official inauguration by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, ten thousand visitors were able to discover during the weekend of January 18 Presence 3, a high security multipoint lock certified A2P *** which was honored in the winter garden of the presidential palace on a stand entitled "Everyday".

After the Élysée Palace, the Serrence Présence 3 lock from Picard Serrures joins Bercy to be exhibited now in the Ministry of Economy and Finance as part of the tenth industry week to be held from March 30 to 5 next April.

Ermétis® Tapkey®, 1st A2P @ connected lock certified in Europe

Recognized by security and insurance professionals, the CNPP Cert. has just delivered the first A2P @ certificate to Picard Serrures for its Ermétis® Tapkey® connected lock. It thus becomes the first connected lock certified A1P @ 2 * in Europe.

This trusted passport assigned by the National Center for Prevention and Protection covers the entire burglary protection solution whose validated performances relate to:

the mechanical resistance to burglary of the Ermétis® multi-point fairing lock,
associated with the robustness to digital attacks of the TapKey® mechatronic cylinder and its dedicated mobile application, whose complex encryption of the communication between the two media prevents any hacking.

The year of its 300th anniversary, these distinctions are a recognition of the industrial know-how of Picard Serrures, a French company that continues to write its history while remaining deeply attached to its values.