Cresco

Name

Cresco

Legal name

CRESCO s.r.l.

Website

https://crescoimpianti.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Gambellara

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. New Plant Design and Supply: Design and supply of turnkey production plants from scratch, including storage, transport, mixing, dosing, sampling, and filtration systems. Equipment manufactured in stainless steel AISI 304/316, aluminum, or painted carbon steel.
2. Existing Plant Optimization: Optimization and upgrading of existing production plants to improve efficiency and competitiveness.
3. Consulting Services: Consulting for component and machinery selection, economic outlay optimization, and technology recommendations. Can be standalone consulting or accompanying plant design projects.
4. Spare Parts Supply: Supply of specific spare parts for production plants during their lifecycle, including components like valves, pipes, fittings, and filter bags.
5. Maintenance Services: Ordinary and extraordinary plant maintenance services including machinery revision, conveyor belt modifications, and component replacement.
6. Assembly and Disassembly Services: Professional assembly, disassembly, and relocation services for industrial plants, production lines, and packaging equipment.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cresco designs and supplies turnkey industrial production plants for handling powders, granules, and liquids, covering storage, transport, mixing, dosing, sampling, and filtration. The company delivers complete, customized process lines to manufacturers in the food, beverage, coffee roasting, animal feed, pet food, premixes, chemical, and plastics sectors, providing single-source responsibility from process engineering through installation.

Product overview

Cresco is an Italian industrial equipment company with 40+ years of experience specializing in the design and supply of production plants and machinery. The company operates a platform-based architecture offering interconnected production line solutions. The core product portfolio comprises: (1) Storage systems including Steel Silos (monolithic and bolted panel), Trevira Fabric Silos, Tanks for Liquids, Storage Tanks, Big Bag Loading/Unloading Stations, 4F Transfer Cart, and Empty Bags Cabin; (2) Transport systems including Pneumatic Transport, Screw Conveyors, Bucket Elevators, Redler Chain Conveyors, Belt Conveyors, Extraction Systems, and Screening/Iron Removal Systems; (3) Mixing solutions including Horizontal Mixers, Vertical Mixers, and B-Mix/Rotary Drum Mixers; (4) Dosing and Micro-dosing Plants including Micro/Macro Ingredient Dosing and Weighing/Dosing Hoppers; (5) Auxiliary systems including Suction and Filtration Plants and Sampling Systems. These products are designed to work as integrated production lines, from raw material storage through dosing, mixing, and transport. Cresco also provides complementary services including consulting, spare parts, plant maintenance, and assembly/disassembly services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Industrial Production Plants (Turnkey)

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1000 production plants and machines installed for industrial clients
• +3 more outcomes

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• FreeraycoreTechnology or IntegrationFreeray is referenced as a partner in the development of sampling systems. Cresco carries out continuous tests, in-depth verifications, and comparisons between different brands, choosing the best instrumentation available on the market to design and supply efficient and precise sampling systems.
• Istituto Superiore della SanitàcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe food and industrial sampling system was developed in synergy with Istituto Superiore della Sanità with the aim of dynamically sampling powdery or granular solid products. The sampling system is chosen in Italy and Europe by the majority of milling, feed, food, chemical-pharmaceutical, and roasting industries.

Scale indicators3 records

Direct peers

• Zeppelin Systems: Provider of bulk material handling, pneumatic conveying, and plant engineering for chemical, food, and plastics industries — directly comparable full-plant supplier overlapping with Cresco's end-to-end plant offering.
• Hosokawa Alpine: Manufacturer of powder and particle processing equipment including mixing, conveying, and dosing systems — overlaps with Cresco's mixer, conveyor, and dosing product lines serving similar industrial customers.
• Coperion: Germany-based manufacturer of bulk material handling, pneumatic conveying, mixing, and dosing systems for food, chemical, and plastics industries — closely overlapping with Cresco's core product portfolio and verticals served.
• AZO GmbH: Specialist in automated bulk material handling systems for powders and granules, including silos, pneumatic conveying, and dosing — directly comparable to Cresco's storage, transport, and dosing offering.
• Vigan Engineering: Belgium-based manufacturer of pneumatic and mechanical bulk handling equipment for powders and granules in food, feed, and industrial applications — close peer in transport/storage equipment.
• Shick Esteve: US-based specialist in bulk material handling systems including pneumatic conveying, storage, and dosing — comparable niche-equipment manufacturer serving food and industrial customers.
• Piovan: Italian-headquartered supplier of bulk material handling, dosing, and storage solutions for plastics, food, and related industries — directly comparable given geographic overlap (Italy) and similar vertical exposure.

Broad incumbents

• GEA Group: Large German engineering group providing processing and plant technology across food, beverage, chemical, and pharma — a much larger incumbent whose bulk handling and processing lines overlap with Cresco's offering.
• IMA Group: Italian-headquartered global leader in packaging and processing machinery for food and pharma — operates in adjacent equipment categories and competes in several of Cresco's verticals, but at significantly larger scale.
• Bühler Group: Swiss global leader in food and feed processing equipment with much broader portfolio and scale — competes in many of Cresco's verticals but at significantly larger scale and with broader technology breadth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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