Eurovetrocap’s history started in the 1940s with a first glasswork built by the Cattaneo family in Milan, which was sold to the Bormioli Rocco Group in the 1970. The Cattaneos then established a new company dedicated to the sales and decoration of glass and plastic containers for the cosmetic industry Eurovetrocap srl.
During the last 35-years, the group has seen significant growth, also through the acquisition of some competitors, thanks to its strategy, designed to meet the requirements of the cosmetic industry and its fragmented supply chain.
In 2015, Eurovetrocap had a turnover of 40 million euros, 100 employees, a sales force in 30 countries. Their products are currently sold in 98 markets with more than 3500 customers.
“The keys of our success are a guaranteed quality, in particular through a ISO9001 certification, short delivery times, the possibility to supply small quantities of standard products, and 20 resources dedicated to support customers,” explain the company’s managers.
Agility and flexibility
With one of the widest product range available on the market, Eurovetrocap offers an almost unrivalled variety of shapes and materials but still strives to expand its offering year on year with many new items being added. “We are making efforts to develop new shapes, to use innovative materials and to improve engineering of new devices suitable to make our product always safer, cheaper and more effective,” claims the company.
To meet its customers’ demands, Eurovetrocap stores more than 15,000 pallets of standard goods, between the warehouses in Milan and Florence and is now completing the enlarging of the Milan warehouse from 15,000 to 22,000 pallets to meet the demand for big quantities orders of standard items, and the number of references.
To date 1,600 is references are immediately available and an automatic picking system allows collecting even less than 1,000 pieces per order in few days. The lead-time for standard items is about two weeks. “Small quantities service is one of our strength since we started to work with the first cosmetic companies. A service that helps not only small laboratories but also bigger ones that need to make several pilot launches during the year.”
In order to further reduce lead times, especially for the customized items, Eurovetrocap created a business community with its main suppliers that moved their production in the surrounding of the company’s headquarter.
A large variety of decoration techniques are also available to customised the products, including pad printing, traditional and UV silkscreen printing, lacquering, hotfoil stamping, metallization, galvanization, metal embossing/debossing, 3D sublimation and digital printing on glass.
Sustainability
Eurovetrocap also made huge investments in renewable energy sources with aim to reduce its environmental footprint - in particular CO2 emissions - and meet the growing requirements of cosmetic brands with regards to sustainability.
Since 2011, the energy necessary for the company’s offices, warehouses and decoration equipment, has been provided by solar panels of 200 and 100 KwP. In winter, when the sun light is not enough to ensure the company’s energetic autonomy, additional power derived from renewable sources is supplied by Repower.
Furthermore, Eurovetrocap created INFINI-PACK, a collection of post consumer and post industrial PP, HDPE and glass. Eventually, the company offers BioBased HDPE, also known as Green PE, a raw material obtained from the maceration of the sugar cane plants.
