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Our company is specialised in the production and sale of food packaging, containers for food preservation and cooking and products for domestic waste management . Always mindful of qualitative excellence, innovation and sustainability, Cuki Cofresco serves both the mass-consumer and professional markets with more than 4,000 products.

Cuki History

Food conservation is a crucial part of the food-industry production cycle: for over sixty years Cuki have been investing in this sector, in terms of technological research, integrated industrial system and production diversification according to market’s demands.

Cuki’s offer includes Cuki and Domopak cling film, aluminium foil, baking paper and food containers; as well as Domopak Spazzy bin-liners, made with recycled, recyclable or plant-based material and Domopak Living products for the care and organisation of homespace

  • 1958

    Comital is established to operate in the aluminium sector.

  • 1968

    The Cuki brand name is registered.

  • 1998

    A joint venture between Comital and Cofresco Frischhalteprodukte was created under the name Comital Cofresco, with the industrial and commercial contributions of Cuki and Domopak, two leading Italian brands in consumer-packaged goods.

  • 2000

    Comital Cofresco acquires of Europack, a company specialised in the production of aluminium and plastic food containers for the professional sector.

  • 2008

    Europack is merged into Comital Cofresco, creating the Professional Division dedicated to the production and sale of food containers made with aluminium, plastic and cardboard.

  • 2010

    Aholding (Corrado Ariaudo) acquires the full control of Comital Group and starts a financial and industrial restructuring plan in agreement with the financing banks, focused on the development of Cuki Cofresco core activities.

  • 2013

    Cuki Cofresco acquires Ilmak Makina Sanayi Ticaret, a Turkish company with headquarter and factory in Istanbul, to better serve the markets in Turkey, Balkans and Middle East.

  • 2015

    The Group completed the industrial restructuring process with the transfer of non-strategic activities, including the disposal of the aluminium lamination activities of Comital.

  • 2017

    Cuki Cofresco establish Cuki France SAS, with headquarter and factory in La Terrasse (Grenoble), with the objective of better serving the French and other European markets.

  • 2018

    Melitta Group acquires from Aholding the control of Cuki Cofresco to develop the European leading company in food packaging through the synergies with Cofresco Frischhalteprodukte.

The Group

Cuki Cofresco S.r.l. (directly and indirectly owned by Melitta Group Management GmbH & Co. KG) controls the following activities and companies from its managerial and commercial headquarters in Volpiano:

CUKI COFRESCO ILMAK (TURKEY) CUKI FRANCE DOMOLIVING FOOD PACKAGING 100% 100% 100% STORAGE
CUKI COFRESCO ILMAK (TURKEY) CUKI FRANCE DOMOLIVING FOOD PACKAGING 100% 100% 100% STORAGE

Company Officers

Chief Executive

 

Corrado Ariaudo
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Auditing firm

 

società di revisione

Shareholders

 

 azionisti

 

60% Melitta Group Management GmbH & Co. KG

 

 azionisti 1

 

40% Cofresco Frischhalteprodukte GmbH & Co. KG


Code of Conduct and Corporate Bylaws

Leadership

In the FMCG sector, Cuki Cofresco operates in a market that is worth 372 million euros. The company is the brand leader in all the markets in which it operates, with over 33% of the market share.

(Nielsen data, year ending 31/12/2020 – Modern Distribution)

 

 

Cuki Cofresco First branded competitor Private label Other
Market share in the Italian consumer market 33% 7% 52% 8%
Cuki Cofresco First branded competitor Private label Other
Rolls of aluminium foil 31% 11% 53% 5%
Rolls of cling film 39% 9% 48% 4%
Rolls of baking paper 39% 13% 43% 5%
Freezer bags 30% 6% 54% 10%
Aluminium containers 31% 4% 57% 8%
Bin liners 19% 13% 49% 19%

Annual production

Million units / Year

Aluminium containers and lids
Plastic containers
Cardboard trays
Rolls (aluminium, cling film, baking paper)

Financial data and statements

Production Sites

Cuki Cofresco boasts a total of six production sites, with four of these being located in Italy and the other two aboard (France and Turkey):

Cuki Cofresco - Frosinone A production plant

Area: 65,300 sq.m (22,500 sq.m covered) Employees: 97

Rolls: 52 million pcs./year

Cardboard trays: 11 million pcs./year

Lids: 100 million pcs./year

Main markets served: Italy, others (not served by international sites)

Cuki Cofresco - Frosinone B production plant

Area: 12,500 sq.m (8,500 sq.m covered) Employees: 182

Alluminium containers and trays: 800 million pcs./year

Main markets served: Italy, Europe

Cuki Cofresco - Pontinia (LT) production plant

Area: 101,100 sq.m (15,000 sq.m covered) Employees: 77

PP containers: 270 million pcs./year

PET containers: 34 million pcs./year

Biodegradable containers

Main markets served: Italy, Europe

DomoLiving - Nervesa della Battaglia (TV) production plant

Area: 7,000 sq.m Employees: 20

PP storage boxes (DK Living): 600 PP tons/year used

PS storage boxes (DK Living): 300 HIPS-GPPS tons/year used

Main markets served: Italy, Abroad

Cuki France - La Terrasse production plant (France)

Area: 18,000 sq.m (10,000 sq.m covered) Employees: 51

Aluminium containers: 400 million pcs./year

Main markets served: France Benelux Spain

Ilmak - Istanbul production plant (Turkey)

Area: 16,000 sq.m (6,000 sq.m covered) Employees: 71

Rolls: 7 million pcs./year

Aluminium containers: 100 million pcs./year

Main markets served: Balkans

Consumer

Cuki Cofresco, leader in the mass consumer market with the following brands: Cuki, Domopak, Domopak Spazzy and Domopak Living.

High-performance solutions for the preparation, preservation, cooking and presentation of food.

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Tradition and experience for all your kitchen needs.

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A complete range of bin liners combining resistance and environmental awareness.

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Design and functionality, the home storage specialists.

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Professional

Cuki Professional is an international industrial packaging brand with a complete offer on all sales channels, especially the HoReCa channel and in the food industry.

Cuki Professional offers a wide range of trays and containers made from aluminium, plastic and cardboard specifically for the food industry, public and private community catering, and for own consumption in-store by supermarkets, as well as by hotels, cafés, bars.

Dedicated to the needs of professional customers relating to containers for food use made from aluminium, plastic and cardboard.

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Premium quality and products for the food industry with tailor-made solutions suitable for the customers’ specific requirements.

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A benchmark for all professional needs in the bin liner sector, with particular attention being paid to environmental sustainability, thanks to the use of post-consumption recycled materials.

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Projects

The 'RIUSA' Project

The objective of the RIUSA project is to use recovered aliphatic bio-polyesters in the manufacturing processes for the automatic and digitalized production of a wide range of food-packaging products in line with the principles of the circular economy.

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Certifications

As a real commitment to the future, Cuki seeks international certification for its products. A natural concept, a sustainable principle.

Maximising productivity whilst safeguarding the environment is our aim today, enabling the generations to come to inherit a more sustainable future: in the Group’s production processes, recovery, recycling, safeguarding and purification activities are all essential parts of a concrete and mindful business approach.

The use of cutting-edge technologies, meticulous research into materials and their disposal, and the ability to reduce production consumption and waste, are all requirements that we consider essential to ensuring that the Group’s products meet the highest possible quality standards whilst remaining financially competitive.

All factories used for the production of products suitable for food contact are ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and BRC certified. Our freezer bags comply with the UNI 15593 standard.

Cuki Cofresco, always sensitive to the environment, uses energy, certified to come from entirely renewable sources, at its headquarters and factories in Italy.

Whistelblowing

CUKI COFRESCO S.R.L. and the Companies of the Group – DOMOLIVING S.R.L. and EUROPACK S.R.L. – in accordance with Legislative Decree 24/2023, make available to employees, collaborators, suppliers and all the other persons involved in various capacities with the Company, etc. a Whistleblowing reporting system in order to counter any illegal behavior or irregularities. All parties involved in various capacities with the Companies of the Group may report offenses and irregularities that they have become aware of in the performance of activities in favor of the Company.

Thanks to the platform adopted, the confidentiality of the identity of the reporter, the confidentiality of the information contained in the reports, and the protection of the reporters against any retaliatory or discriminatory acts are guaranteed.

Please read the Policy for Handling Reports here to understand reportable conduct and how the reporting channels work.