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A key blank (sometimes spelled keyblank) is a key that has not been cut to a specific bitting. The blank has a specific cross-sectional profile to match the keyway in a corresponding lock cylinder. Key blanks can be stamped with a manufacturer name, end-user logo or with a phrase, the most commonly seen being 'Do not duplicate'.
In 2000 the Spanish Business Unit Silca Unican Iberica S.A., today Silca Key Systems S.A., was opened in Barcelona. In the same year Silca acquired its competitor Ilco Orion S.p.A. In 2001 Kaba Holding AG took over the Unican Group, creating one of the largest companies worldwide operating within the security business.
Unican Security Systems Ltd. was a Canada-based company created by Aaron Fish in the 1960s and sold in 2000.At its sale (to Kaba Group), the company had over $800 million in sales annually and was the largest maker of key blanks and key copying machines in the world.
Best Lock Corporation was an American publicly traded door hardware and lock manufacturer. Founded in 1925 as Best Universal Lock Company by Frank Ellison Best, the privately held company relocated from Seattle, Washington, to Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1938, where operations expanded and evolved.