If we very often talk about e-liquid brands and equipment manufacturers, we come to forget these companies which manage all the logistics. For CDA (Chabot Delrieu Associés), a manufacturer of labeling and filling machines, the vape has become a real gold mine!
« VAPE REPRESENTS 30% OF TURNOVER!«
« E-liquid represents 30% of our turnover", Indicates Dominique chabot, co-manager with his accomplice Pascal Delrieu of narbonnais CDA (21 million euros in turnover in 2017). Launched ten years ago, the strategy of diversification outside viticulture of this manufacturer of labeling and filling machines has hit the mark with “vaping”. After the E-Fill packaging line released in 2014, CDA has developed the fully automated E-Fill S, which notably equips the liquid manufacturer Alfaliquid.
Compact, this line gathers on a single frame filler, corker, screwdriver and labeler. His cadence : up to 50 products per minute. It was developed " like a Lego »By the integrated design office of ten people, reinforced in January by an R & D engineer. The parts of the E-Fill S are machined by the CDU subsidiary, born in 2016 and for which 1 million euros is invested over two years. Then the machines are assembled and adjusted on the main site, a stone's throw away, which will be reorganized to make room for the E-Fill range.
All markets are green for CDA, which, after having recorded 100% growth in three years, hopes to double its turnover again by 2021. To explore new niches, 1 million euros will be committed in R & D. " Beginning 2018, we will create on another Narbonne site a second innovation special design office, where will work a dozen people in one year“, Specifies Dominique Chabot.
Today, the group employs 130 people, including fifteen in the American subsidiary (in Virginia) and two in Germany. In the next three years, CDA's workforce could grow to 150 to 200 people.
Source : Usinenouvelle.com
