Who we are.
Mission.
The first Manufacturing Cooperative in Italy.
A truly unique industrial history, as it has succeded in deftly uniting past and present by both preserving its traditions and welcoming a continuos inflow of konwledge and new research. A reality that was born in 1874 animated, from the beginning, by passion.
A great desire for progress: economic, productive and human.
During the early decades of the 20th century, its local organisation model, based around the central core of the factory and its workers, helped kick stasrt a genuine process of industrialisation. Thus, in 1913 the company began to devote itself completely to the production of floor and wall tiles, creating that ideal combination of aesthetics and technology.
Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola is today an industrial and dynamic complex also stimulates company know-how by ensuring that technical, management and production expertise interact constantly to supply a diverse product portfolio every year that meets the requirements of the global market rapidly and strategically.
A proud look towards the future.
Vision.
The Cooperative Movement, past and present.
On the 22nd of June 1874, Giuseppe Bucci handed over the majolica and tableware factory that had been in his family since the mid 1700s to his workers, ad an expression of his desire to contribute to “the progress of the industry and imporve the financial conditions of its workers”. This belief, openly declared by the cooperative’s founding father in various statues and in the Pact of Brotherhood signed by the original members, has always been the company’s style: to promote and safeguard labour as a fundamental asset of the individual and society, and as the primary requirement for transforming not only the company, but mankind itself.
Cooperativa Ceramica d'Imola is therefore an inseparable combination of ethics and economics.
Tha factors connected to labour, human resources, capital and technology are a single, undivided asset in which every one is invited to take part, according to the cooperative logic of coalescence and collectivity.
150 YEARS CELEBRATION.
A SYMBOL OF PAST AND FUTURE.
In the year of our 150th anniversary the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy presented a stamp, issued by Poste Italiane, dedicated to Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola, as part of a special collection dedicated to the Italian entrepreneurship, named “Excellence of the productive and economic system”. The graphic project, designed by studio FM milano, depicts a stylised and symbolic image of the company, which is a connection between the past and the future: a visual combination of the long lasting ceramic tradition with some contemporary elements, conveying the identity of a constantly evolving industry which is a benchmark company at the same time.
Snippets.
Our history.
More than 150 years of beauty, creativity and excellent quality. A priceless heritage accumulated over the years of this unique journey, with maximum respect for workplaces and the people who labour in them every day, animated by a passion and desire for progress.