Located in the fertile Piana del Sele (Campania), an area with good soil, climate and orographic conditions, EuroCom, a company founded in 1997, has always specialised in baby leaves. In 2011, it has been recognized as a PO (Producer Organisation) and has since made a series of new investments to complete its extension plan. In 2012, it started building a new commercial farm with 50 hectares of tunnels.
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The installation of new tunnels on a plot.
Today, the company has 160 hectares in a number of production sites that produce a volume of 35-45,000 kg per day. In addition, it has completely renovated the processing and packing plant, which occupies 3,000 sq m, and built an area dedicated to storage and raw material control as well as one to pack unwashed produce (I range).
Baby leaves packaging room.
Two new 400 sq m storage units were built with a forced cold air tunnel system to blast-chill incoming produce that can hold up to 200 pallets. The whole warehouse is cooled not to interrupt the cold chain.
Unit with forced cooled chilling tunnel.
A de-watering machine was also installed to eliminate excess water without stressing the cut produce, as well as a vacuum cooler with a 10 industrial pallet capacity.
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Above: the de-watering machine. Below: the "vacuum cooler".
In addition to this, there are also new multi-head scales, flow packing machines and vertical bag machines, as well as four processing and packing lines, one of which is dedicated to organic produce. There's also new machine for shrink-wrapping to help the existing one, which is two years old.
Caterina Amoroso and Mirko Rossi, warehouse managers, next to one of the new shrink-wrapping machines.
As Enrico Rossi, sales manager of Euro.Com, says, "our attention for innovation derives from the young and dynamic nature of our company, where new generations occupy important positions while the old traditions are maintained."
The top management is made up of owner brothers Fabio (managing director) and Icilio Pierri (control manager), sided by nephews Enrico (sales manager) and Mirko Rossi (logistics and warehouse manager) and by Marika, daughter of Fabio, who manages human resources and the administration.
Many other employees are young and enthusiastic. At peak moments, Euro.Com employs up to 120 workers, 80 in the field and 40 in the warehouse.
Left to right: Icilio and Marika Pierri, Caterina Amoroso, Luigi D'Aniello, Enrico and Mirko Rossi, Fabio Pierri.
Because of their enterprising spirit, Euro.Com is among the leaders supplying baby leaves to foreign markets and represents a raw material reservoir for big foreign packers, with direct supplies to retailers abroad.
"Our main unwashed I range products such as rocket, corn salad, spinach, green and red lettuce, red and oriental chard are destined to the main IV range packers and to a number of European supermarket chains. 95% of the production is shipped abroad. We have clients in Great Britain, Netherlands, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Portugal and Russia."
In addition to our main traditional product, wild rocket, there are now other products. "The smooth leaf teen spinach, which was introduced a couple of years ago, was welcomed with a lively demand which sometimes was even higher than the supply. Response was good also for green and red salad mixes, for Green and Dark Kale and for other products such as curly and smooth parsley, coriander and dill."
The top management is made up of owner brothers Fabio (managing director) and Icilio Pierri (control manager), sided by nephews Enrico (sales manager) and Mirko Rossi (logistics and warehouse manager) and by Marika, daughter of Fabio, who manages human resources and the administration.
Many other employees are young and enthusiastic. At peak moments, Euro.Com employs up to 120 workers, 80 in the field and 40 in the warehouse.
Left to right: Icilio and Marika Pierri, Caterina Amoroso, Luigi D'Aniello, Enrico and Mirko Rossi, Fabio Pierri.
Because of their enterprising spirit, Euro.Com is among the leaders supplying baby leaves to foreign markets and represents a raw material reservoir for big foreign packers, with direct supplies to retailers abroad.
"Our main unwashed I range products such as rocket, corn salad, spinach, green and red lettuce, red and oriental chard are destined to the main IV range packers and to a number of European supermarket chains. 95% of the production is shipped abroad. We have clients in Great Britain, Netherlands, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Portugal and Russia."
In addition to our main traditional product, wild rocket, there are now other products. "The smooth leaf teen spinach, which was introduced a couple of years ago, was welcomed with a lively demand which sometimes was even higher than the supply. Response was good also for green and red salad mixes, for Green and Dark Kale and for other products such as curly and smooth parsley, coriander and dill."
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Tunnel red and green salads, which are already mixed.
Our latest product are fresh aromatic herbs such as thyme, mint, sage, oregano and rosemary. We produce a lot of them and they are destined to retail.
Below: curly parsley.
We also have a 25 hectare totally organic productive site for the production of rocket, baby spinach, baby leaves, red chard, bull's blood and tatsoi.
Contacts:
Fabio Pierri
Cell.: +39 335 8706028
Email: [email protected]
Icilio Pierri
Cell.: +39 335 8706027
Email: [email protected]
Enrico Rossi
Cell.: +39 338 2260391
Email: [email protected]
Mirko Rossi
Cell.: +39 333 3147884
Email: [email protected]
Marika Pierri
Cell.: + 39 331 7968615
Email: [email protected]
Luigi D'Aniello
Cell.: +39 380 2807405
Email: [email protected]
EURO.COM
Tel.: +39 0828 370242
Fax: +39 0828 370333
Web: www.eurocomgroup.it
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