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COMPANY
INCA
SHAPINg BRILLIANT IDEAS
From cosmetics and jewellery
to innovative and sustainable
aluminium packaging thanks
to passion and expertise
being Rubinstein, which accounted for up to 20% of
the company’s turnover, later followed by the most
famous brands in the Italian and French markets. In
the space of thirty years, the production area of the
Porto Valtravaglia factory soared from 500 to 24,000
square metres. In 1995, Inca acquired the French
company Capinter SA, based in Vihier, near Angers,
enabling it to expand its production range.
A new strategy
In 2022, new industrial partners decided to take
up the challenge with the entire Inca team. An
investment programme of €9 million over seven years
was decided, including €4.5 million immediately for
the next four years, mainly focused on the industrial
reconfiguration of the plant and its automation but
also, from this year, on water treatment facilities to
From left: E.Leolli - CMO, S. Parodi - CEO, F. Leolli - President, S. Faverio - Business reduce environmental impact and on the purchase of
Development Director, M. Del Bue - Board Member, F. Sciorilli - Board Member new assembly lines to increase production capacity.
The company also took the opportunity to divest
Inca was founded on the shores of Lake Maggiore, to the cosmetics formulation and filling activities and
the north of Milan, by Giuseppe Faverio in 1951 who concentrate on metal products, to strengthen its
realized (even then!) the potential offered by brass position in aluminium processing. By 2023, sales will
and aluminium in packaging for the beauty sector. have exceeded €21 million, with a workforce of 180
After a brief foray into the production of and a target of €23 million by 2024.
cosmetics, with a brand of its own, Karma, which
was discontinued in the late 1960s, the company Expertise and creativity
continued to grow in the 1970s and 1980s, building Inca’s business currently consists of transforming
on its unique packaging/cosmetics duality, with aluminium sheets delivered in coils using various
aluminium packaging emerging on the market to stamping, forming, anodising and finishing
become hugely successful among perfume and processes, and manufacturing closures, lids, jars,
cosmetics brands. The most emblematic of these collars and coverings, mainly for the beauty industry.
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