RESHORING CASE

Comital Lamalu

Company details
Code: 
Comital
Company name: 
Comital
Company country: 
Italy
Number of employees: 
170
Sector: 
C - Manufacturing
Sector detail: 
C24 - Manufacture of basic metals
Reshoring details
Reshoring announcement date: 
13/06/2014
Starting implementation date: 
June, 2014
End of Implementation : 
December, 2015
Reshored to: 
Italy
Location of affected unit(s): 
Volpiano
Location code: 
ITC11
Reshored business function: 
Production
Partial or Total reshoring: 
Total
Reshoring governance mode: 
In house (in own facilities)
Estimated job gains: 
40
Reasons for reshoring: 
Firm's global reorganization
Implementation of strategies based on product/process innovation
Case narrative: 

Comital Lamalu is an Italian company that produces aluminium. The company was created when Comital split into Comital Lamalu and Cuki Group SpA, which specialises in food packaging. Thanks to investment from  Franco-Belgian industrial group AEDI, Comital Lamalu has invested €20 million in order to upgrade its plant in Volpiano (Piemonte, Italy), and backshore production of aluminium from a plant located in Sweden. Production in Volpiano has increased by 20% to date, which has led to the creation of 40 new jobs.

Sources: 

Il Sole 24 Ore, 13 June 2014

La Sentinella del Canavese, 30 September 2015

Offshoring details
Offshoring location: 
Sweden
Offshored business function: 
Production