Similar values!
On the occasion of this agreement, the leaders of the two companies, Géry Dambricourt, owner and CEO of CEP, and Yuzo Yoshida, President of Yoshida, declared that this agreement had been all the more possible thanks to the fact that both companies shared the same values in their desire to innovate and to focus their successful development on research. Officials at Yoshida are convinced that this new range of injected sampling tubes will enjoy a great success in Asia where this market is still predominantly in the hands of manufacturers of traditional sachet-type samplers. On the side of CEP Cosmétique, people say that this partnership will obviously help strengthen its international development. “It is a first step,” officials say on both sides. “Further developments in common are possible!”
Two family businesses
It may be recalled that the turnover of Yoshida, a family business, will exceed this year US$ 180 million and has a record of a number of major developments in injection and decoration processes. The latest to date, Plaglass™, its flagship product, developed with the Du Pont Group and which enables to design an overmoulded bottle that looks like glass, and most of all, enables to vary the shapes while perfectly protecting the sandwiched printing. A Group also specialized in the production of flexible tubes and who has recently invested in a new filling unit in Shizuoka. A Group, finally, who plans to set up a new industrial facility in Southeast Asia next year.
The CEP group (€ 36 million in sales), also family owned, now consists of three separate entities: CEP Cosmétique(16 million in sales broken down between injected and extruded tubes, and capsules – for jars and bottles - with a high added value in terms of decoration and assembly), CEP Agriculture (injected products for the garden and nurseries) and CEP Office Solutions (storage accessories for office use). CEP Cosmétique, who took on June 11, this year, the reins of the Plastitube factory in Bayonne, previously owned by the Soupletube Group and who was put into receivership a few months ago.
The factory located in Thiers, in the Auvergne region, houses thirty injection presses, including five bi-injection presses and several “in-house processes” for the assembling and decoration of capsules, not to mention three offset printing machines, two screen printing machines dedicated to the decoration of tubes with a diameter of 16 and 19, and an “in-house-designed” line dedicated to the screen printing and hot stamping of tubes with a diameter of 30 and 35. It was recently granted the ISO 22716 certification (Good Manufacturing Practices).
