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.
The opening of Cavanna Packaging USA and its 21,000 square foot building – leased at 2150 Northmont Parkway, Suite A in Duluth – 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 leader in the flowpack wrapping systems field. The family-owned business started in 1960 by Mario Cavanna made efforts to open a location in the U.S. in 2011 and ultimately chose Gwinnett because of its business-friendly environment, the proximity to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and the area's skilled workforce. This company designs, produces and distributes worldwide automatic machines and turnkey systems for single pack and multipack wrapping of food, pharmaceutical and non food products. It's a safe and reliable partner the customer can turn to with absolute confidence to study and create together custom-made packaging solutions. Cavanna is on the U.S.A. market for over 30 years with over 500 installations.
The need to be closer to American customers to better serve them and the strategic importance of this market has meant that Cavanna has made the decision to be on the market with an assembly plant and construction of its packaging technologies, highly suitable to a quality market like that of U.S.A.. 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 – 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. - "Upon recommendation from a fellow business owner to consider Duluth for Cavanna's expansion, our own review has shown this insight to be correct."