The modern-day company.

A dynamic industrial centre and benchmark for quality ceramics, symbol of Made in Italy around the world and a global player in the industry. Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola operates on the market with three separate trading brands: Imola, LaFaenza and Leonardo.

Doing business. For 150 years.

Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola celebrates its 150 anniversary in 2024. Our legacy is the sum of all our experiences, culture, values and traditions handed down from generation to generation.  Everything that has gone before, allows us to develop into what we will be tomorrow.

Made in Imola

The company headquarters is based in the city where it was founded. An attractive, well tended presentation site.

3 production plants

A surface area covering more than 1,000,000 m2 within 20 km of Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola’s headquarters.

Showroom

Over 3,000 m2 of ceramic exhibits where tradition and recorded history combine with contemporary architectural features.

The historic museum.

Located in an eighteenth century glassworks, originally the company headquarters from 1874 onwards, this building is home to 150 years of history.

Artistic ceramics

A unique heritage that continues to be passed down by Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola’s Artistic Department.

Quite another story, our story..

150 years of beauty, creativity and excellent quality. A priceless heritage accumulated over the years on this unique journey, with the utmost respect for workplaces and the people who labour in them every day, driven by a passion and desire for progress.

The beginning

22 June 1874: the Cooperativa Ceramica d’Imola was founded.

Our achievements

A story that the oldest manufacturing and work cooperative in Italy has lived as a protagonist in the worldwide markets since the end of the 1800’s, achieving great fame in the early decades of the 1900’s. Record exports followed, thanks to the progressive growth of the plants and production capacity.

Present day

Since 1874, Cooperativa Ceramica d’imola has been a benchmark in the ceramics sector, a fact that it owes to a unique blend of tradition and innovation that is still a trademark of international excellence. Products that are always able to interpret the needs of the market. Products that are unique because they are the result of a real passion for ceramics.

New challenges

A past that has already made the history of ceramics; a future of economic, productive and human progress still to be written. A proud look towards the future.