A century
of excellence
The Company
The Colorobbia Group, the world leader of an Italian-born tradition of ceramics, marks a century of innovation and international enterprise since 1921, a family business built on Italian creativity and international innovation, at the forefront of the industry’s offerings of raw materials, ceramic manufacturing supplies, glazes, frits, digital ceramics inks, product services, and technological developments.
A Global Family
29 companies in 18 countries, including Spain, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Portugal, China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, and a new service facility in the United States.
Over 2000 employees
Over 600 milions euro turnover
is responsible for 13% on the international ceramics industry.
Italian creativity
Founded by Guido Bitossi in 1921, the now legendary Bitossi brand began as a refined craft producer of the area’s eminent Renaissance tableware traditions. In the post-war boom he spearheaded Italy’s first modern iterations of ceramics with prominent designer collaborations. Led by the company’s celebrated artistic director Aldo Londi, Bitossi revolutionized the ceramic world with designs by Ettore Sottsass and others.
It was this contemporary spirit that would propel the Bitossi family to enlarge, under the name of the Colorobbia Group, as the first major supplier for the ceramic industry to go global.
Research and Innovation
The company has established itself as the vanguard of digital printing for tiles and tableware by continually devising new techniques, better performing inks, and greater decorative possibilities, while expanding its capacities with innovations in textiles and glass derived from its ceramic expertise. 5% of the turnover is invested in R&D.
Sustainability and Ethics
Since its founding, the Colorobbia Group has always maintained a philosophy that respects environmental sustainability, with protocols that rigorously align with the guidelines of every country in which it is present. The sensibility informs an approach of extreme efficiency in all stages of production, ensuring that energy and materials are conserved to the utmost degree, plus recycling and treating industrial-use water, reusing raw materials, and reducing atmospheric emissions.
Fondazione
Vittoriano Bitossi
Honoring its profound bond with the territory, in 2008 the family launched the Vittoriano Bitossi Foundation for ceramics inside the original Montelupo Fiorentino factory where the business was born in 1921.
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