Today’s stories: Capsulit
Capsulit boasts a long, impressive track record of research and innovation in the production of safety closures. With a main focus on the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical markets, but with some significant forays into cosmetics and food, it maintains an excellent reputation as a proud “family business” able to look beyond national borders.
In 1949, three friends decided to start a business in Milan for the production of closures; after an initial transfer of operations in 1964, the company settled in 1993 in Roncello (MB), the company's current home. After abandoning the initial production of capsuling machines, Capsulit has gradually specialized in the production of aluminium and plastic closures for the pharmaceutical industry, particularly caps for injectables, pilfer proof and child proof caps, measuring cups and measuring spoons, and caps for single-dose solutions. 1974 saw the foundation of Capsulit Iberica in Polinyà, near Barcelona, which distributes Capsulit's products, as well as those of other packaging manufacturers, throughout Spain. In 2019, the acquisition of the former Giglioli Fabrizio – now Capsulit Giglioli, based in the province of Modena – enabled the company to expand and complete its packaging range, supplying single-dose and multidose bottles, vials and pill bottles in PET to match the closures, thus initiating expansion into the nutraceutical sector.
A 2024 turnover of 41 million euros (60 percent of which from exports), more than 100 employees located between the plants in Roncello (MB), Rovereto s/Secchia (MO) and Polinyà (Barcelona), and investments aimed at continuous improvement, the most important of which is represented by the current expansion of the Lombardy production site, which will allow for further investments in technology, as well as optimising production. In a nutshell, these figures and developments illustrate the current situation of Capsulit, highlighting the prestigious position it has earned on both foreign and domestic markets, which, over the years, have appreciated the quality of its proposals, ability to listen, and flexibility.
Let’s hear from...
In addition to their pride in the enviable longevity of the company, export director Alessandro Vavalà, sales director Gianluca Rossi, and sustainability manager Elisa Rizzardi are the best people to describe the characteristics and potential of a solid, future-oriented company, so let’s hear from them.
First of all - begins the young Elisa, “Capsulit is a family business, and this makes all the difference, because it allows us to be very flexible in a market where structures, which are often outdated and cumbersome, provide very slow responses, to the detriment of service.
Flexibility and response time
Capsulit is an example of the tradition that makes medium-sized “family companies” a key part of the Italian business fabric.
We still ‘put ourselves out there’, so to speak, in the sense that our customers continue to know who they’re talking to, from a managerial point of view - Vavalà explains - and this is a plus, because it allows us to establish strong, stable relationships with the market.
We work with both multinational corporations in all parts of the world - Rossi continues - and small/medium-sized companies or even workshops, who come to us because we are willing to listen to them and always provide the services they require. And, when we’re dealing with other family businesses, it helps to have a shared common vision of doing business and mutual appreciation.
So experience and the quality of the relationship created over time, based on a number of fundamental aspects, still counts a lot: the willingness and ability to listen, as well as reliable times for reacting to requests, which comes from being able to count on a lean, flexible and competent structure.
An area of excellence, evolving all the time
Capsulit's 2025 goal is to complete the expansion of the production facility in Lombardy by the end of the year: a new warehouse of about 5,000 mq connected to the existing facility, designed to become a single unit.
We’ll be moving the assembly department to the new plant - explains Elisa Rizzardi - along with some offices and the canteen, so that we can not only optimise production, but also improve the quality of working life for employees. In the existing plant, the plastic department and tooling shop will be expanded. With the gradual growth of the business in recent years, the lack of space made it more difficult for us to add new machinery, but now, with the new layout, we will be able to pursue further development plans.
