Technologia Group continues to grow relentlessly internationally. Several years ago, we started to reach a highly strategic European market and diversify our production capacities. Thus, today we can be proud to announce the scaling of Technologia Group, having built manufacturing presence in 6 countries across Europe. This marks our steps in bringing us closer to our customers, improvement of our service, and reduction of the carbon footprint.
We are going to start a series of interviews in order to introduce our affiliated partner companies. Today we are talking to Giovanni Cartasegna, the General Manager of our Italian company Teo Italy S.r.l, launched in 2021.
To be honest, this was a combination of events but most of all I have to say this was my father’s merit. I personally come from a very different industry. But my father has a significant background in the packaging business, which allows him to get to know many important players in this field around the world. One of them is JSC TECHNOLOGIA. When it was presented to me the opportunity to start up the Italian branch of such a prestigious company in the packaging market as JSC TECHNOLOGIA, my reaction could have been only one: “Ok, gentlemen, when do we start?”
Teo Italy’s main task is to facilitate the access of TECHNOLOGIA JSC high-quality products to one of the most important wine market in the world: Italy. We are dealing with the greatest Italian wine companies all over the country, and supply them with wirehoods, polylaminate and thermoshrinkable capsules, self-adhesive labels. The goal is to give them the opportunity to get different solutions, personalised packaging, high quality products, fast delivery, and the possibility to deal with a national company, which takes care of customers, taking charge of customs clearance procedures, deliveries, invoicing and customer care. The challenge is to give to the Italian wine producers, from small canteens to huge companies, the chance to be able to count on a new high-quality option for their business.
As quickly mentioned before, from the very beginning we dealt with wirehoods, polylaminate and PVC capsules for all types of wine bottles: still, sparkling, “spumante”, “prosecco” etc. We supply standard packaging but also personalised goods, following the client in the process from the discussion of the project to the final delivery. Starting from 2023, we are adding more arrows to our quiver: we begin dealing also with premium metallic and paper labels produced by JSC TECHNOLOGIA and we are shortly preparing to offer our customers various flexible packaging options.
Sincerely speaking at the beginning of this nonsense invasion we were very worried, first for the colleagues of TECHNOLOGIA, all the staff and their families in Sumy, all the people met during our visits to Ukraine, last one of these just in February 2022. The first 25-30 days have been tough. We kept in touch on a daily basis to stay updated about the situation going on. Approximately after a month, we were very happy and relieved that all the people at TECHNOLOGIA were safe, and they also were starting to run the factory again. Thanks to the hard work of these great men and women, at the beginning of April we started to serve the Italian market and we haven’t stopped since that time.
Saying a thousand times “thank you” to all the people who allow us to continue the business, would never be enough. But I want to do it anyway: Thank you, guys!
Our bigger “pro” is delivery time. High quality of goods and fast lead times are the first two factors which have allowed us to be able to supply many important customers around Italy. And sorry for being repetitive but all this would have not been possible without the outstanding work of all TECHNOLOGIA’s staff.
Right now, we are working on a few lines. The goal is to add more machinery to be able to produce directly from Italy the biggest amount possible for our customers’ needs. Having a strong and efficient production right here will allow us to expand our market share further. At the same time, we’ll be able to create some working places for the local community. And this is another considerable Teo Italy’s goal.
As a company I would say we are beginning to pay close attention to this topic. For the delivery of our goods, we use carton packaging produced only from recycled paper. At the same time all the waste from steel to iron, from paper to plastic generated by the production plant and offices are introduced in the recycling circuit. Another initiative is a small thing, but we issue and share all our brochures and company’s presentations only in digital to avoid waste of paper and to save green forest. These and other fulfilments will be followed even more in the next future, when the production process will grow, establishing a real and proper eco-budget.
Our final goal is to build a solid reality in our country. A company which will be able to introduce itself as a leader in this important market. To do that I know one way only: teamwork. This is why we focus on building a team of very good guys, well prepared and aiming to reach big goals in their specific area.