Located near the top of Italy’s “boot,” COROB’s San Felice facility is the main site producing the company’s tinting equipment and product models. Known for its progressive solutions for paint tinting, the plant faced a new kind of challenge in 2012 when two earthquakes hit the region in May. The quakes, the heaviest of which reached a magnitude of 6.0 on the Richter scale, severely damaged the facility, with 8,000 square meters of the plant completely ruined. Within a week after the second earthquake, tents were set up to continue production.
Now, as the production site begins to emerge from its 16-month reconstruction, the company is facing a new era in its history. It is again a stand-alone company, after splitting from CPS Color following the combination of the CPS Color colorants business with Chromaflo Technologies on 3 December 2013. The re-opened site is now the headquarter of COROB , with production merged from the previous two buildings into one updated facility. In November, when COROB still belonged to CPS Color, the company hosted me and other editors on a tour of the new site and provided an overview of the company’s latest tinting technology.