THE EIGHTIES

In September 1981 Edoardo Bertoli and Maurizio Pavoni two professionals with a long-time experience in the sector of plastics, found Nordcontenitori in Osio Sopra (Bergamo).  At the very beginning, the production is outsourced and the company's capitals are invested in creating new moulds.

In 1988, for logistics reasons, the company moves to Medolago (Bergamo) on a 2666 square metre area (350 of bureaus and 2316 of warehouse).

In 1995 the newly established processing plant in Chignolo d'Isola begins to work. It has at present 6 presses for the injection of plastic materials (each of them has a clamping force of up to 1200 ton). At present, it covers a 3000 metre area.

In 1998, in Greece, another processing plant is installed to produce an item for the domestic market

1999 is is a very important year for Nordcontenitori. The company starts finding new solutions to logistics problems.

Thanks to an accurate investment & research policy new products come into light. In order to make tailor-made but also environmentally friendly packaging and pallets, Nordcontenitori places a new extruder for recycled-PET in a 500 sq m roofed area. Thanks to this new patented production method, Nordcontenitori starti the assembling of the modular pallet.

The pallet Boomerang is the new smoothed-surface plastic pallet which comes along with the hygienic pallet in order to meet the pharmaceutical and alimentary industry needs. As a consequence of its highly innovative content, Boomerang is awarded the Italian Packaging Award. By collaborating with European companies, Nordcontenitori widens its range of products significantly. The Euro R, the folding pallet box for industry, represents the remarkable result of this collaboration. It permits to save costs, taxes and waste.

In addition, new products for industrial and commercial areas join the range of products.
 

Nordcontenitori celebrates its first 20 years in 2001, and it becomes a joint-Stock company. During all that time the company acquired an outstanding role among plastic boxes producers, thanks to a successful marketing and sales activity. This conquest is not meant to be a point of arrival; it rather wants to be a stimulus for its future enrichment and growth.

In this period too, some new products are launched on the market: "Iridium-Pal", the double-patented heavy-duty plastic pallet available in several colour combinations; L2 (plastic box conceived to easily lay entire loins) and finally a new lid (COP N64) for stack & nest boxes whose perimetral rim shows interruptions which favour strapping operations.
 

In 2002 Leonardo, the modular packaging produced in collaboration with Whirlpool Europe, is awarded the Italian Packaging Award.

Since spring 2003, the company undergoes a significant internal innovating path: it reorganizes its commercial activity, founding Logis-Rent which acts on the international markets as the sole Nordcontenitori distributor and it structures around an experienced manager its sales strategies. At the same time, thanks to the creation of a R&D office, an essential function has been integrated in the company (it was previously outsourced) in order to respond effectively to the clients' needs. The existence of two strictly connected companies, Nordcontenitori and Logis-Rent, in the strong hands of one single family, is the premise for a possible group-image evolution: it is a brand-empowering choice and a chance for a better human-resource management.

The jury of the first Italian edition of the contest “Display SuperstarITALIA” designates Iridium-Pal® as the most innovative ground-display in the large-scale retail trade.

2004 can be easily defined as the year of the pallet. Nordcontenitori, already known as producer of Iridium-Pal® and of tailor-made pallets made of extruded recycled PET bars, launches on the market two new models of nesting plastic pallets. Its objective is to help those companies which, exporting to countries such as China, United States and Australia, must conform their export procedures to more strict legislations on the import of wooden packaging.
Coming to pallet-boxes, the company is also trying to improve its product range, updating some moulds and launching a renewed pallet-box line. The launch of new products is completed by the creation of a mould maintenance area, reducing the reparation times and advantaging the productivity.

The e-commerce project, which has been carried out in the spring 2004, will allow Italian private customers and companies the online purchase on www.nordcontenitori.com.
 

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