Colorgraf founder Enrico Pellegrini was born in 1909, the youngest of four children, into a working-class family. His father’s premature death forces him to look for a job. Thus he meets his life teacher and collects from him his professional legacy in the production of printing inks. In 1951 he began his industrial activity.
A choice that turns out to be more farsighted than ever!
The moment one is fully committed, even Providence then moves. Endless things happen to help him, things otherwise never happened...Boldness holds genius, power and magic...J. W. Goethe
History
Enrico Pellegrini starts his own activity in Milan, Via Felicita Morandi 5.
It is the autumn of 1951 and in via Felicita Morandi, on the northern outskirts of Milan, the “seed” from which Colorgraf will develop is laid. Two years later, in 1953, the headquarters moved to Via Moisè Loria, still in Milan.
The company was born from the will power, the courage, vision and the skills of Enrico Pellegrini who decided to make his dream come true, thanks to the crucial support of his friend Angelo Guglielmi: starting his own business and
become an entrepreneur. Helped by his sister Maria and his brother Piero, supported by less than a dozen collaborators, he began to produce inks.
Opening of a New company in Lainate, close to Milan.
Colorgraf takes the big step and creates the new production site inspired by the most modern industrial criteria.
The company’s move to Lainate marks the transition from a semi-artisan activity to an industrial one. The investments and specific know-how acquired by an american company allow the company to develop and specialize to better compete on the Italian market.
Colorgraf starts the production of UV varnishes and inks.
Colorgraf enters twenty years of great development and strenghtening. The production of UV inks began and in a few years the company achieved leadership in the market of this new ink technology, offering a very high quality product and firmly continuing the philosophy of customer assistance and service. In those years, the new warehouse for logistics and production of the UV line was also built.
First UV flexo inks for the label market.
The company, having reached 40 years of activity, has doubled its staff and is fighting its multinational competitors with ever greater strength every day. Given the success of the production of UV inks, Colorgraf decides to expand its product to the label market, keeping up with the important innovations in packaging. Thus began the production of UV flexo inks for narrow web for a new segment of customers.
Inks for food packaging
Colorgraf formulates a series of inks dedicated to food packaging, starting an internal reorganization process to follow the evolution of the regulatory requirements of this important market segment: staff training, selection of raw materials, dedicated production lines. It is the beginning of the application of good manufacturing practices (GMP).
Colorgraf turns 60!
Groundbraking of the new site and offices, laboratory and production departments.
Colorgraf celebrates its 60th anniversary by opening the new production plant. Works began in 2009 and led to the creation of an expansion of all company activities. The aim was to expand the RD laboratories and logistics, rationalizing production as best as possible, with particular focus on the UV ink department. In October 2011 the new facility of over 6,000 square meters was inaugurated. The surface area occupied by Colorgraf reaches 27,000 square meters.
Factory expansion
The growing market demand leads to the construction of a new 1,500 square meter building to increase UV ink production capacity.
Roll out of the new warehouse for finished products.
A new 2,500 square meter logistics site in Via S. Antonio, Lainate is built to optimize storage of make-to-stock items and free up space for new water-based flexo and screen printing production lines in the headquarter of Viale Italia, Lainate.
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Contacts
“ COLORES TERO NEC VERBA VOLANT ”
I grind colors so that words don't fly away
Paolo Pellegrini
Presidente Colorgraf
