32 billion caps a year, mostly metal caps of the crown type, but also plastic caps, supplying all over the world the big beer brands, from Carlsberg to Heineken and Guinness; and then Coca Cola, Nestlé for San Pellegrino water. "We are the world leader with 15 percent; it's a parceled market," says CEO, Marco Checchi. Now Pelliconi, a 100 percent family-owned company with 700 employees, two plants in Italy (Bologna and Atessa, Chieti) and six manufacturing subsidiaries worldwide, is expanding in the United States, preparing to double in Africa, planning to land in the Middle East, while also growing in China and Canada. It was last February that it purchased for "about ten million" an American company, Novembal, in Arizona, and its subsidiary in Montreal, Canada. "About 80 people in all," says Checchi, who of Pelliconi is also a shareholder alongside his wife Claudia Gnudi, a majority partner, his mother-in-law Maria Teresa Pelliconi and her husband Franco Gnudi, the current president. "They produce plastic capsules, in the U.S. that is our market. We already had an office in Orlando since 2010 to which the one in Phoenix was added. In Florida we manufacture capsules for soft drinks like Coca Cola”.