Cavanna Packaging USA, Inc. - a subsidiary of Cavanna Packaging Group S.p.A. - has celebrate the grand opening of its North American headquarters operations near Atlanta, GA.
The opening of Cavanna Packaging USA, Inc. and its 21,000 square foot building – leased at 2150 Northmont Parkway, Suite A in Duluth, GA – represents the company's efforts to expand its customer base and market share in North America. Cavanna Packaging Group, with global headquarters in Prato Sesia (in the North of Italy), is a leader in the flowpack wrapping systems field. The family-owned business started in 1960 by Mario Cavanna initiated efforts to open a location in the U.S. in early 2011 and ultimately chose Duluth, GA, because of its business-friendly environment, the proximity to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and the area's skilled workforce. Cavanna Packaging USA, Inc. designs, produces and distributes worldwide automatic machines and turnkey systems for single pack and multipack wrapping of food, pharmaceutical and non-food products. Cavanna is a safe and reliable partner that the customer can turn to with absolute confidence to develop and innovate as a team custom-made packaging solutions. Cavanna has been in the US market for over 30 years with over 500 installations.
The need to be closer to the many American customers and to better serve them along with the strategic importance of this market has meant that Cavanna has made the decision to be physically located in the North American region with an assembly plant. This will enable the construction of its packaging technologies, to be in close proximity of the quality market like that of the US. The grand opening also highlighted Cavanna Packaging USA's year-end employment projection totaling 12 initial jobs with that number expected to significantly grow as production increases. "As an effort to continue to support our increasing customer base and to grow our market share we have established a new operational facility in Duluth near Atlanta, GA. In addition to providing our customers with a great technical support, we are pleased to provide complete wrapping machines and wrapping systems.", said from the headquarters. This facility will complement the two manufacturing facilities in Italy as well as the successful Brazilian manufacturing facility. "As a company with a 52 year successful history of providing complete wrapping machines and systems, we are pleased to bring our services and products to North America," - said Riccardo Cavanna together with his sister Alessandra Cavanna, both of them CEO, Cavanna Packaging Group S.p.A. - "Based upon the recommendation from a fellow business owner to consider Duluth for Cavanna's expansion, our own review has shown this insight to be correct."