RIVERCAP and SPARFLEX Merge Their Capsule Operations for the Wine and Spirit Industries
The Spanish wine capsule company, RIVERCAP SA, is joining forces with its French counterpart, SPARFLEX SA, to better serve their wine and spirits clients.
This operation is the result of a common vision of the world capsule market for cork-finished wines and spirits, where both companies have identified important synergies in their commercial and manufacturing operations.
This new group will create the critical mass necessary to address the demands of the current wine and spirit markets, particularly in terms of response time and innovation of high-end capsules.
The objective of this new group is to offer better customer service, a larger range of products, state-of-the-art technology and a manufacturing capacity on several continents.
The combination of the industrial strength and the geographical locations of this new group will give it a world reach from its commercial and manufacturing sites in France and Spain, and in the USA, where all Polylam and PVC production will be centralized in Ukiah, California.
CORK SUPPLY USA will continue to distribute all RIVERCAP products.
SPARFLEX SA, founded in 1984 in Epernay (France) by Michel and Jocelyne SOUTIRAN, is one of the leading companies for its core business: foils and wirehoods for the sparkling wine industry. The firm offers a global packaging solution which includes raw material production, design services, sales and distribution of the final products, for both still and sparkling wines.
RIVERCAP SA was founded in 1990 in Lapuebla de Labarca (Spain) by Enrique ECHEPARE and is a world leader in the production of capsules in the wine and spirit markets, in particular pure tin for the higher end. RIVERCAP also provides a complete range of capsules including tin, polylam, PVC and screwcaps.
The agreement between SPARFLEX and RIVERCAP relates exclusively to their capsule operations for still wines and spirits. The other SPARFLEX activities (sparkling foils, wirehoods, labels, polylam extrusion and design services) remain outside this agreement.
The founders of RIVERCAP SA will continue in their current positions, and the management of both RIVERCAP SA and RIVERCAP USA will remain in place.
