company profile

COMPANY PROFILE
WHO WE ARE
CREATORS OF COSMETICS
Cosmoproject operates in the
chemical sector and specializes
in researching, designing and
introducing innovative, cuttingedge cosmetics.
Featuring vast experience, knowhow and skilled staff, it offers
customers a personalized, all-inone deal, through a modern Full
Service option.
Its capacity to respond to the
most specific market needs
with high-performance, perfectly
dermo-compatible products is
accompanied by a philosophy of
environmental care; this makes
Cosmoproject the number one
partner for certain success on the
worldwide markets.
2015
INDOOR SURFACE AREA:
14.650 m2
EMPLOYED PEOPLE:
193
REVENUES:
27,8 million euro
PRODUCTION CAPACITY:
30 million pieces per year
GRADUATES:
26
of which in scientific disciplines
(Chemistry, Pharmacy, Biology) 16
TURNOVER TREND (1998-2015)
million e
YEAR
THE FUTURE
NEW EXPANSION PLAN 2016
2003
2009
INDOOR SURFACE AREA:
22.500 m2
2016
WHERE WE ARE FROM
OUR ORIGIN AND FIRST STEP
Cosmoproject was founded in 1993 in Parma, a city internationally well
known for its culture, art and food tradition, but also as a place for the
fragrances.
The perfume industry that began in the 1800s was to create the favorite
perfume of Napoleon Bonaparte’s consort, Marie Louise of Austria: the
famous Parma Violet. From then on, the city became ubiquitously known
as the little perfume capital.
OUR FIRST STEPS
Within this context, Cosmoproject stands
as formulators and manufacturer of the
“ancillaries” of finest Italian High perfumery
historical brands
Entering Cosmoproject is a journey
into the world of beauty, its
exhibition hall is a feast of colors
and international brands visible
in the finest perfumeries in the
world; more than thirty brands
compose its catalogue of lines, and
the wonder is the most common
feeling for those accessing in this
area. Behind this world of image
and sensoriality there is a very
complex structure and meticulous
organization
able to provide
the best services in terms of
legislative assistance, quality and
product safety, innovative and
viable solutions for cosmetics that
offer both a first class technical
performance as well as continue
sustainable and environmentally
friendly development in our dayto-day business.
AN ANSWER TO EVERY NEED
WHAT DO WE PRODUCE?
Virtually everything: emulsions,
masks, serums, gel, tanning
products, shampoos, foundations
and much, much more.
In fact we work in
various sectors:
Our shelves:
High-end Perfumery
Large Retail Chains
Perfumery Chains
Pharma
Beauty & Spa
Discount
Functional skin care
Functional hair care
Cleansers
Makeup
Depilation
Medical devices
Cosmeceuticals
Cosmoproject deals with
the best known, appreciated
and recognized national and
international brands
that reach the five continents.
We move effortlessly between the
top and mass markets.
FULL SERVICE OPTION
NO PROBLEM, WE TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING
Are you looking for
1
an all-in-one service?
Project formula/
product and
related samples
Talk it over with
2
Realisation of
samples
us and you can have:
Sensory
evaluation
of the
product
Pilot
production
runs
3
7
Evaluation of
efficacy and
stability test
Programmed
bulk
production
11
Container
and adhesive
label print
proofs
4
8
Legislative
assistance for
Europe and
the rest of
the world
Bulk
quality
control
12
In-line
application
tests
5
9
13
Quality
control of
packaging
Product/
packaging
compatibility
test
Design of
secondary
and tertiary
packaging
6
10
FOCUS ON CUSTOMER
THAT’S WHY WE OFFER TAILOR MADE COSMETICS
We aim to continuously appreciate and perceive the needs
of our customers; guaranteeing
them total satisfaction by being
responsive, through the excellence of our products/services
and through the passion in relationships that we demonstrate
in our daily work.
We constantly invest energies to
guarantee the matching between products / services and
customers’ needs, by understanding and anticipating them
thanks to our assiduous and
painstaking observation to the
market innovations.
R&D DEPARTMENT
A REFERENCE POINT
Cosmoproject boasts a brand new
R&D Department that employs
skilled personnel dedicated to researching, designing, planning and
implementing the best cosmetic
products.
The resources allocated to the Department are subdivided into designing area upon customers’ brief,
testing area upon corporate brief,
trial area with targeted tests and,
above all, research studies and
clinical trials of new formulations,
new active ingredients, new synergies and new textures.
The constant, continuous communication with the corporate marketing department is paramount
in order to optimise the activity of
the R&D laboratory by synergising
it with the latest market’s requests
and industry trends.
It is a creative work which starts
from chemistry to end with products displayed on the shelves of
the five continents.
R&D LABORATORY
WHERE IT ALL BEGINS
This is where the product is conceived, developed as a sample,
evaluated sensorially and dermatologically, checked for chemical
and physical stability and refined.
State-of-the-art equipment and
highly-skilled staff, as well as collaboration with external laboratories
and universities specialising in the
cosmetics sector, make the Research and Development Laboratory the nerve centre of Cosmoproject, a real point of reference
which is vital to face the market
with the best answer, whether we
are dealing with an entire line or a
single product.
“SENSORY” COSMETICS
FORMULATION STRATEGIES AND EVALUTIONS IN USE
One of the challenges issued by
the market to our formulators
is to create cosmetics capable
of awing at once, synergistically
acting on all senses.
When the skill of tickling sight,
touch, smell and even hearing
has a significant impact on the
perceived quality and the sensory
“memory” of the consumer, then
the cosmetic is a winning product.
Both the substance and the effect
created at once are among the
very first key elements to confirm
the success of the product, which expresses itself in a “sensory
experience” during its application
phase.
From a technical point of view,
we can act on virtually endless
variables in order to obtain the
desired effect: oil blends, gelifying
agents, texturizing agents, fragrances and moisteners skillfully balanced turn into the perfect product from the sensory standpoint.
Selecting optically active elements
in the formulations is paramount:
those elements are able to visibly change the treated area in a
Greasy
Afterfeel
Longlasting
Soft Afterfeel
Film
Residue
Sticky
Afterfeel
Uniforming
Activity
Spreadability
Immediate
Luminosity
Example of a Kiviat diagram for a facial cream.
But there is more: luminosity and optical properties, spreading,
oiliness and filler effect are considered as well to attain a good
“sensory cosmetics”. For a product deeply “indexed”.
wonderful way, thus satisfying the
consumer at once.
A challenge inside the challenge
is to scientifically “evaluate” impressions which are personal by
nature to create the knowledge of
this type of analysis in the research
laboratories.
Spreading value as well as picking
can be easily measured by means
of the consistency meter.
Double-blind evaluations of textures with reference to the benchmarks must be included in a
multidimensional matrix which will
become an essential part of product technical sheet.
TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER
T.E.C. AND EXPERT BEAUTY SPECIALISTS
The T.E.C. is a testing place within
the company where products are
tested in order to check their tolerability, pleasantness, sensory
properties and, above all, effectiveness.
As far as the latter is concerned,
true treatment sessions are organised within the TEC.
They are followed by instructions
for at-home care aimed at assessing the truthfulness of the main
product’s claims – even through
measurement by means of adequate instruments – and the satisfaction level throughout its use.
Adequate appliances and equipment measure the moisture
level, elasticity, firmness, smoothness and depth of fine lines and
wrinkles, whilst expert beauty
specialists assess the skin and the
obtained benefits through the products or treatment.
The target is the utmost customers’ satisfaction.
REGULATORY AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
A KEY ROLE IN GUIDING COSMETIC PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
The Regulatory Affairs Department
of Cosmoproject ensures that the
company and customer comply
with all of the regulations and laws
concerning their business.
The Regulatory Affairs Department
is an important part of our organisational structure of the company.
Internally it liaises at the interphase of product development, manufacturing, marketing and clinical
research. Externally it is the key interface between the company and
the regulatory authorities.
Our Regulatory Affairs Dept. is involved in the development of new
cosmetic products from early on,
by integrating regulatory principles
and by preparing and submitting
the relevant regulatory dossiers to
health authorities.
Regulatory Affairs team plays a key
role in guiding cosmetic product
development strategy
playing
an important operational role, for
example, by considering the best
processes to follow and enabling
structured interaction with regulatory authorities. Our team is driven
by good science and accordingly
nothing remains static.
Development targets and key
claims have to be reviewed and
adapted to regulatory guidelines
and regulations. They develop the
regulatory strategy, arrange agency meetings, prepare and compile
the questions and briefing documents; they attend the meetings
and manage all communication
with the agencies.
Cosmoproject offers a comprehensive and competent consulting to ensure the proper ap-
plication of the technical and legal
aspects, our regulatory affair departmente takes charge of drawing
up the PIF (Product Information
File) with the relevant Security
as well as the assessment and
drafting of export documents.
Since the regulatory environment is
constantly changing, the regulatory
team provides advice on necessary
adaptations to development plans
and target product profiles.
TEAMWORK
IT IS THE “CONDITIO SINE QUA NON”
FOR CORPORATE CULTURE AND WORK-LIFE-BALANCE
“Coming together is a
beginning. Keeping together
is progress. Working
together is success.”
Henry Ford
Motivated, expert people who are aware of how much creating a good
product is an instrumental challenge.
From briefing to manufacturing, the whole process is a team play where people are actually motivated, expert people who are aware of how
much creating a good product is an instrumental challenge.
From briefing to manufacturing, the whole process is a team play where
people actually make the difference with their skills and point of view.
The success of a company is given by the value of people living it.
RAW MATERIAL DEPARTMENT
NO PROBLEM, WE TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING
How many ingredients can a single product contain? To avoid any
chance of error the Raw Material
Department fulfils its production
plans through a sophisticated
computer system which works on
radio frequencies and interacts
with the company’s mainframe.
A really special raw material:
DEIONIZED SANITIZED WATER.
Let’s start from the raw materials.
Their selection, their assessment,
the application in the new formula, the tests in use and so on
down to their final destination in
the most innovative products.
However each raw material passes through careful checks before
being accepted and go into production; a dedicated laboratory
analyzes the correspondences to
the chemical and physical parameters, the organoleptic, microbiological aspects and all guarantees to build the perfect product.
The results given by this efficiency
is on everyone skin and everyone
can see it:
Exceptional Products.
The water we use is our pride and
joy since it is completely deionized
by an inverse osmosis plant made
perfectly sterile by a UV radiation
system.
We select raw materials
and develop formulations,
which beside to a superior
performance, are more natural,
compatible and eco-friendly
than conventional raw materials
at the time. We not only
improve the economic value
of a cosmetic product, but
also the ecological and social
footprint of our customer.
DAILY PRODUCTION
CAPACITY:
36.000 lt/day cold
process solutions
25.000 It/day
of hot manufactured
creams/gel solutions
A min. quantity of 100 lt
to a max. 10.000 lt of
bulk for each batch
THE BULK PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT
GIVING SHAPE TO IDEAS
The product has been formulated,
the ingredients selected, and here
at last in the Bulk Production Department all is ready for the actual
birth.
A wide range of homogenizers
and mixers machines turn out products that are structurally different.
No need to speak about aromas,
textures and the compelling nature of our products, which are there
for all to behold.
Instead we will speak of the AISI
316 steel plant to transport deionized water, the network of outlet
grills for the washing and sanitization of the plants in addition to
an exceptional production capacity, made flawless by Bulk Quality
Control.
FILLING AND PACKING DEPARTMENT
FROM THE CONTENT TO THE PACKAGING
At this point we’ve almost finished; the product only needs to
be filled and packaged.
How? Let’s start from the filling.
The lines feature single ink-jet
coding, labelling and sleeving machines.
While for packing we have boxing,
bundling, cellophaning and coding machines to meet any need.
Advanced technology, targeted
solutions and versatile responses:
this is what makes us special.
We have exceptionally up-to-date
lines that can adapt to the most
varied shapes of packaging:
Plastic and glass jars
from 3ml to 1000ml
Plastic and glass bottles
from 3ml to 1000ml
PE tubes
from 3ml to 400ml
AL tubes
from 3ml to 250ml
CODE OF ETHICS AND CONDUCT
ETHICS IN EVERYDAY
OUR COMMITMENT
UNI EN ISO 9001
A choice strongly wanted by an
innovative Company that strives
to perform assuring the continuos
control of processes and customer
satisfaction.
(Quality Sistem Management)
UNI EN ISO
14001
(Environmental Management)
NEAR FUTURE
OHSAS 18001
(Occupational Health and
Safety Assessment Series)
REACHED
22716
ISO
AEO
(Authorized
M
d
Ethics for Cosmoproject means
legality, fairness, integrity, responsibility and transparency.
CERTIFICATIONS
Economic Operator)
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Goo
We believe that the ethical component should always be present
and active, and that there can
be research, production, promotion, sales and organization only
with an adequate level of ethics,
especially in positions of higher
responsibility.
sidering business ethics and legal
conduct as fundamental pillars of
our reputation and success.
IN PROGRESS
c ti
Cosmoproject has long been in
line with these general ethical
principles: we want to affirm our
values, build our activities on rules
of conduct that will allow us to do
business while protecting society
and the environment, as well as
develop confidence in all those
who interact with us. This must
take place both inside and outside
the company.
We have always held a firm belief
both in complying with the highest
standards of conduct and in con-
an
ra
Ethics is a branch of philosophy
that deals with human behavior
and it expresses a set of rules of
conduct which should be applied
in everyday actions to contribute
to the common good.
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Cosmoproject Management
System complies with
UNI EN ISO 13485
(Medical Devices Quality)
Formally authorized by I.S.S.
ENVIROMENT AND SAFETY
A “HOLISTIC” SUSTAINABILITY
Cosmoproject’s philosophy supports a “holistic” sustainability, which includes environment, health and safety of workers, quality of processes and
products.
The eco-friendly awareness and environmental protection is an integral part
of our industrial policy: business development and environmental sustainability are essential to one other.
Our “Ecological consciousness” has addressed the entire organization to
keep improving investements in new expansion plant engineering technologies.
Energy
consumption
The investments made to
save energy have achieved
a reduction in energy consumption despite the increase
in production volumes.
We drastically reduced energy consumption, we installed 250 photovoltaic panels
in 2014 and we are installing a new implant three
times higher (150 kW) in
the area which we are now
expanding.
Waste
Emissions
The company’s policy has
been effective in increasing
levels of recyclable waste,
even though there has been
a moderate increase in waste generation overall due to
increased production.
With regard to air quality,
atmospheric emissions are
moderate and are mainly
due to the natural gas boilers which produce steam.
We are managing waste by
diminishing processing waste and stimulating separate
waste collection.
We are reducing emissions
into the atmosphere.
ENVIRONMENT AND SAFETY
A “HOLISTIC” SUSTAINABILITY
Water
Resources
We purify all our water carefully,
because we believe that a serious
company can also be recognized
by its attitude to the environment.
We pay great attention to the
natural environment that its surrounding.
Consequently, our biological purification plant has a capacity sufficient for 2.500 inhabitants/equivalent, and allows us to discharge
surface water with Chemical
Oxygen Demand values that are
always in compliance with the regulations, or even better.
The volume of supply and discharge water resources has decreased over the past few years
thanks to constant controls on
water resources.
Specific plans are been scheduled to continue improving our
performance in this aspect.
2015 CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND ANNUAL TRENDS
OUR COOPERATIONS:
Sustainability requires cooperative arragements and networking, we support organizations whose
objectives are important to us to achieve a real sustainability.
Sedex, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange, is a no profit
membership organisation dedicated to driving improvements in responsible and ethical business practices in global supply chains.
SEDEX
(Social Responsability)
We support the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International so that
it can continue to guarantee assistance, medical care and monitoring for these good-natured cousins of
ours. This is something we really do believe in.
A NEW WORLD OF BEAUTY
EVENTS & PRESS
Our company has been requested to intervene at the MAKING
COSMETIC, an international and exclusive event in Milano to
discuss and display on one of the most captivating and engaging
aspects of a product formulation: sensory evaluation.
The Seminary, whose relator is our Research & Development Manager regarded: “Sensory cosmetics: formulation strategies and
evaluations in use.”
It is also Published on TEKNOSCIENCE, an international magazine
for industry.
We have been selected among the best and important players in the
international contract manufacturing in Made in Italy fields attending
Cosmopack 2016. We participated in the “2016 Cosmopack Cream
Factory”, an annual live exhibition of the industrial process for the for
the production of the best made in Italy with a true technological
revolution.
2016’s edition will present “Cosmopack Optimoist Perfectionist Serum”, showcasing the technically advanced production of one of our
best seller Serum.
Thanks to the increased use of modern production processes in the
Cream Factory, the serum will be produced with reduced emissions
of CO2 and will comply with ISO 22716 GMP for “good manufacturing practices.”
A GLOBAL VISION
Cosmoproject is considered an
innovative and reliable supplier
for European multinational giants
with active commercial screenings
outside the borders of Europe.
We are a solid company that
competes successfully in a globalized and increasingly competitive
world, a reference point which
confirms, creativity and Italian entrepreneurship and dedication of
the best Made in Italy.
Creating high-quality cosmetics, with more and more
modern production processes which have strong and
deep roots in a sustainable,
social and ecological vision
meeting the requirements
of an increasingly demanding international customer.
This, for us, is innovation.
Published on March 2016
MADE IN ITALY
Strada Mazzabue 5 - 43055 - Casale di Mezzani - Parma - Italy
Phone +39.0521.817181 Fax+39.0521.316020
www.cosmoproject.it - [email protected]