An innovation story - Dromont Group

1. The Early Years

The company originally supplied the coating industry, providing pioneering leaner processes in making paint and dispensing colorants for creating on demand customized finished colors.

The Dromont business rapidly developed a strong reputation for its reliable and smart solutions for Inplant dispensing and retail tinting, setting new industry standards and increasingly entering the international market.

The Early Years

The company originally supplied the coating industry, providing pioneering leaner processes in making paint and dispensing colorants for creating on demand customized finished colors.

The Dromont business rapidly developed a strong reputation for its reliable and smart solutions for Inplant dispensing and retail tinting, setting new industry standards and increasingly entering the international market.

Past, Present and Future

The international challenge

Luca Drocco, son of the founder and CEO of DromontGroup, proudly remembers the years in which he took the first steps towards an international expansion, carrying on the teachings of his father and bringing abroad a revolutionary concept of business model, both in terms of logistic organization and profit goals.

“At the end of the 80’s we were able to say to potential customers: you don’t need stock anymore, you can produce semi-finished colors and mix them on-demand”.

Since the first huge project in Australia, the Group’s expansion has reached challenging markets in Europe, USA and Asia, becoming a global leader, with a strong link with its Italian roots and original vision of excellence and integrity.

“My father skifully set new standards in the coating in-plant dispensing and in-store tinting sector, building a company that focuses on excellence, both on a professional and personal level. That has been my background ever since I was a student, it is my DNA”.

Embracing internationalisation has been crucial for the business, enabling us to include the cultural standards and norms of the local market globally. Viewing products and needs from an international perspective opens our minds and approach to the future.

Past, Present and Future

The international challenge.

Luca Drocco, son of the founder and CEO of DromontGroup, proudly remembers the years in which he took the first steps towards an international expansion, carrying on the teachings of his father and bringing abroad a revolutionary concept of business model, both in terms of logistic organization and profit goals.

“At the end of the 80’s we were able to say to potential customers: you don’t need stock anymore, you can produce semi-finished colors and mix them on-demand”.

Since the first huge project in Australia, the Group’s expansion has reached challenging markets in Europe, USA and Asia, becoming a global leader, with a strong link with its Italian roots and original vision of excellence and integrity.

“My father skifully set new standards in the coating in-plant dispensing and in-store tinting sector, building a company that focuses on excellence, both on a professional and personal level. That has been my background ever since I was a student, it is my DNA”.

Embracing internationalisation has been crucial for the business, enabling us to include the cultural standards and norms of the local market globally. Viewing products and needs from an international perspective opens our minds and approach to the future.

The Turning Point

At the beginning of the 2000s the DromontGroup’s growth and breadth of offering significantly accelerated. Instead of relying on third parties for major capital intensive projects, the Group brought these skills in-house and began to provide a bespoke design, specify and build inclusive offering, introducing also in-house software design skills. This soon fed into the Concept Engineering Program.

The Turning Point

At the beginning of the 2000s the DromontGroup’s growth and breadth of offering significantly accelerated. Instead of relying on third parties for major capital intensive projects, the Group brought these skills in-house and began to provide a bespoke design, specify and build inclusive offering, introducing also in-house software design skills. This soon fed into the Concept Engineering Program.

Retail Marketing

The last thirty years has seen a rapid increase in the demand for in-house paint tinting at point of sale. Offering significant benefits to retailers in terms of cost and inventory reduction there also existed a strong need to provide consumers with quality accurately dispensed product. The DromontGroup expanded its reach in the sector creating machines and solutions with unrivalled quality of equipment and build, color accuracy and ease of operation. An endless pursuit of excellence is seen in today’s cutting edge machines, which are self cleaning, maintenance free with the highest levels of speed and accuracy in the industry.

Retail
Marketing

The last thirty years has seen a rapid increase in the demand for in-house paint tinting at point of sale. Offering significant benefits to retailers in terms of cost and inventory reduction there also existed a strong need to provide consumers with quality accurately dispensed product. The DromontGroup expanded its reach in the sector creating machines and solutions with unrivalled quality of equipment and build, color accuracy and ease of operation. An endless pursuit of excellence is seen in today’s cutting edge machines, which are self cleaning, maintenance free with the highest levels of speed and accuracy in the industry.

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Becoming Group

In 2012, the acquisition of the Comec Company– since 1970 the Italian foremost designer and manufacturer of milling, dispersing and filling equipment– marked an increase of revenue by 40%, adding a flagship manufacturing site with an experienced workforce and enabling the Group’s rising configuration to provide a new fully inclusive offer to its industrial production partners

A New Concept of Consulting

As the internal development of smart consulting services rapidly increased this Concept Engineering as it was now known was soon augmented by a further key skill set. Investment Analytics provides an inclusive business modelling service that goes far beyond production to include purchasing, scheduling and inventory planning. The ability to partner with Finance and Corporate functions to plan customers’ return on investment and capital models has also become key.

Most recently added to Concept Engineering and Investment Anaalytics programs comes the latest introduction of skills Artificial Intelligence. Specifically introduced in the manufacturing processes Ai completes a full set of high service features. These features and programs have all now been bundled together under the Qoncept brand of services.

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The e-Commerce Challenge

In 2018, in collaboration with two of the world’s largest paint manufacturers
and retailers, the Group started to develop a new streamlined paint
fulfilment program focusing on harnessing the
opportunities created by the growth of E-Commerce.

The E-commerce Challenge

In 2018, in collaboration with two of the world’s largest paint manufacturers and retailers, the Group started to develop a new streamlined paint fulfilment program focusing on harnessing the opportunities created by the growth of E-Commerce.

Today is Tomorrow

Expanding far beyond its Italian roots, DromontGroup has become a truly international company, with export based sales accounting for over 90% of the total revenue. The group is always looking forward to new challenges and carries on its endless pursuit of innovation and quality differentiation through significant R&D investments in 4.0 Industry Automation and Recruiting programs focused on bringing in the some of the worlds finest young talents.

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