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Riri zippers and Cobrax buttons rediscover the simplicity and modern elegance in two iconic accessories lines

The editorial team of the magazine visited the Mendrisio site and interviewed the protagonists of the new Oerlikon business unit.

The QHSE (Quality, Health, Safety and Environment) Integrated Management System, already certified for the Padua plant, has been extended to Mendrisio, Tirano and Palazzolo sull’Oglio sites.

The new Oerlikon Riri and Oerlikon Fineparts brands also previewed

The accessories in the new collection focus on innovation, luxury and singular details

Riri Group shares its economic, environmental and social performance to illustrate its journey of improvement towards sustainability.

This state-of-the-art installation guarantees quality, reduction of water resources and safety

Riri Summer Collection explores new materials and focuses on colour combinations.

Riri Group further strengthens its position in the luxury accessory market, benefiting from Oerlikon’s technological leadership.

In partnership with Carpi Tech an innovative watertight zip installed in the Grand Canal d’Alsace

Riri launches a new instrument to be always updated about sustainable topics.

Riri Group improves its approach to development and production of its accessories acquiring K4Sint, company specialized in sintering processes.

The Group shares its economic, environmental and social performance to tell its journey of improvement towards sustainability.

The new zip and button proposal is a combination of innovation, sustainability and synergies between the various divisions of the Group.

The Group further strengthens its position on the metal accessories market for leather goods.

In partnership with Marsh and Mercer, two triennial projects focused on governance and social development.

The merger of the Swiss Group and the Tuscan company has resulted in the creation of a specialised cluster for high-end accessories, now including fashion jewels.

The Group shares its performance and improvements in environmental impacts and tells its journey towards sustainability.

Riri is the first company in the fashion accessories industry to complete its transition towards an exclusive use of recycled polyester for zips’ tapes.

The Riri Group presents its new collection of metal accessories.

The points of strength in this structure: cutting-edge technologies, full automation and state-of-the-art control measures.

For its tape range, Riri has chosen GOTS-certified organic cotton.

The new entry in the Group specialises in the design, development and manufacturing of metal components for the luxury and haute couture sectors.

Technology, creativity and sustainability are the ingredients of the new winter collection.

In its 2019 published report, the Riri Group shares its performance levels and environmental impact improvements.

Past, present and future meet in the new collection of the Riri Group for the 2021 Spring-Summer season.

The Riri Group strengthens its position in the metal accessory sector for fashion and luxury leatherware.

From the end of November the French equity company will be the new majority shareholder in the Group.

The collection is characterised by a palette of sophisticated and eclectic colours, by tasteful and rich hues.

The Riri Group is making important strategic investments aimed at strengthening and increasing its growth and development process.

Light, with its multitude of nuances, symbolic values and meanings: this is the concept of the new Riri Group SS19 collection.

Everything is change and revolution at Riri: take a look at our new collection!

All plants use electricity 100% from renewable sources

The research for sustainable and innovative materials has always been fundamental in the path that guides our group

The Arezzo plant produces prizes for winners at one of the most important horse shows in the world

The words of the protagonists of Oerlikon Luxury, interviewed by Ticino Management, explain the entry of Riri into the Oerlikon Group and the common strategy to ‘make high fashion shine… far beyond the surface’.

The revolutionary PVD technology which, with its advantages and sustainable aspects fits perfectly into Riri’s path, is recounted in the pages of Arsutoria magazine.

“No other brand has ever managed to express, unify, condense such an exhaustive and broad meaning of its core business in just four letters: RIRI”: this is how the interesting reportage by Marco Poli of The Style Lift, who visited the historic headquarters of Mendrisio, begins.

Fashion Network, through interviews with the management of Oerlikon Luxury, traces the history of Riri from its origins and presents the new business unit, created following the recent acquisition by Oerlikon.

Made in Italy, Tuscan craftsmanship and unique creations

Riri Group confirms the partnership with Forema by offering an annual continuing education to its employees

Design, development and realisation of high fashion accessories

Riri Group participates for the first time to the Oerlikon Day dedicated to health and safety at work

Training session for Riri: collaboration and teamwork among employees

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The new button designed to withstand lateral traction

The awards for the winners of the equestrian competition bear the signature of the Tuscan company part of the Riri Group

What do we mean by “measuring the impacts”?

The project aims to promote responsible consumption in the fashion industry

In the column “Industria/Vetrina”, dedicated to footwear components, the magazine Tech Art Shoes reports on the Amom enterprise, part of the Riri Group since 2021, with a focus on the exclusive customised accessories for sneakers made by master goldsmiths from the Tuscan company.

On the online magazine Superzoom, the trends, materials and innovations of the new Riri Group summer collection.

Fibre 2 Fashion focuses in-depth on the closing of Riri’s acquisition by Oerlikon and on the birth of the new Luxury business unit headed by Renato Usoni.

Through the words of Renato Usoni, CEO at Riri Group, and Michael Suess, Executive Chairman at Oerlikon, Fashion Network analyzes the signing of the agreement for the acquisition of Riri by the Oerlikon Group.

The Swiss newspaper focuses in-depth on Riri becoming part of the Oerlikon Group, analyzing the implications of this acquisition on the Ticino industrial scene and retracing the 87-year history of the brand.

High technical performance and vintage look

Riri’s new 100%-polymeric material body slider

Renato Usoni among the speakers of the event dedicated to innovation

In partnership with Mercer, a three-year project based on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

Riri presents the ZC in an “ultra-slim” version.

Riri: upgrade and release project chosen as winner of SAP Quality Awards.

The Riri Group Tuscan company made the bronze trophy awarded to the winner.

The project is a collaboration between Riri and the Consulate general of Switzerland in Milan.

A few insights from our Group Innovation Director as part of a special feature dedicated to the denim world, a sector where Riri and Cobrax have been operating since the 1970s.
The meeting point between being elegant, functional and stylish constitutes the sustainable vision of our Group which harnesses the details of each garment: “great accessories make great denims”, as recently highlighted also by WeAr Denim.

Storm turns ‘Extreme’.

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The “F-SERIES” grows with a new button.

Riri collaborates with the Tuscan brand Pissei for the creation of professional cycling t-shirts.

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A minimal button redefining elegance.

The stainless steel zipper is now also ‘small’.


The Ticino brand makes bags out of recycled fabrics from sails and paragliders.

In its business section, the daily newspaper La Provincia di Como, ever attentive to the development of our Group, has published an article dedicated to the strategic acquisition of K4Sint, a company located near Trento, specialised in metalworking processes.

The Riri Group organizes a team-building day in partnership with Forema.

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When style and functionality meet

A stylish touch for Decor zippers

Riri is proud to remember the basketball Dream Team it sponsored in the Sixties.

Within Riri Group, S.P.M. plant starts an in-house training and development plan for its employees.

Riri accessories on display at Techtextil Fair in Frankfurt thanks to the partnership with Coatyarn. 

Two inspiring lines for a variety of accessories that aim at expressing the polysemic dimensions of reality.

Riri Group hosted the students of the Literargymnasium Rämibühl of Zurich in Mendrisio.

After attending Première Vision Paris, Riri Group has participated at The London Textile Fair, on 22nd and 23rd March 2022.

Riri Group presents its new collection of metal accessories.

Fashion Network, leader of fashion related information for professionals, in light of the recent acquisitions of DMC and Amom, goes over the story of the Riri Group: from 1936, up to the development of a go-to centre for the production of metal accessories.

The well-known economy newspaper Milano Finanza highlights the constant growth strategy that has led Riri to include in its group, after the recent acquisition of Amom, DMC too.

The news of Riri Group’s acquisition of DMC lands on the print edition of Pambianco Magazine. The group now includes in its offer additional metal components for high fashion.

The newspaper La Provincia di Como published in its column dedicated to businesses and work an exclusive interview with Renato Usoni, CEO of Riri Group.
A chance to take stock on the recent acquisition of DMC and to evaluate these difficult but rewarding years.

Riri, with other Italian firms, takes part in another sustainable project.

Riri supports this collaboration by providing its Storm Evo Zipper.

the amount usually intended for Christmas celebrations will be donated to charity.

The use of energy from renewable sources has increased from 47% in 2017 to 99% in 2020

The event was organized in collaboration with Forema. It involved more than 200 employees of the Padua, Poggio a Caiano and Palazzolo sull’Oglio plants.

Another step forward in the growth path of the Swiss group.

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Riri’s range of magnetic buttons is now wider … with a new size.

The Swiss group presents three creative inspirations to explore new shapes, colors, materials and define a new offer featuring a variety of solutions and ideas.

Amom acquisition by Riri Group lands on Pambianco’s digital platform, where it can be read that this “allows for a broader offer of new materials: besides zamak, brass, steel and aluminium, our range now includes also silver, bronze, wood, precious and plastic materials.”

“Riri Group grows”, writes Corriere del Ticino, providing an insight on the recent acquisition carried out by the Swiss company, “leading to the consolidation of the Group’s position in the luxury accessory sector.”

“Riri Group buys the Tuscan Amom”, is the headline of Fashion Magazine, a prestigious B2B magazine with a focus on the fashion industry, to tell the recent acquisition carried out by the Swiss Group, thus extending its offer to the fashion jewelry market.

A long-lasting partnership between the two companies based on shared values.

You can read all about new sustainable standards introduced by Riri, along with the launch of our new SE 2022 collection, in the interesting Rivet special column published on the Sourcing Journal. The main highlights are the transition to exclusive use of recycled polyester for tapes and zippers and the different emotional responses to the pandemic expressed in the three themes of our latest collection.

The prestigious magazine Fashion United reports the introduction of recycled polyester as production standard for our range of zippers. “Utilizing recycled polyester, the company will effectively reduce by 32 per cent their emissions from purchasing polyester” reads the article devoted to this major innovation for 2021 introduced by Riri Group.

“Riri has completed the transition to 100% recycled polyester in their zipper tapes”. 
A special column published by Arsutoria, the leading B2B Italian magazine for footwear professionals and designers, to announce the latest major innovation in the field of sustainability introduced by Riri Group.

“Only recycled polyester in zippers manufactured by Riri”, reads the title of the article published online by La Spola, one of the most popular Italian magazines for textile and apparel. La Spola has published a special column about the great announcement of 2021: the introduction of recycled polyester as the production standard for our range of tapes.

On Closed Magazine an article dedicated to Cobrax that shows “how a 100% Made in Italy button is made”. Popular German brand Closed, that over the years has become a true excellence in the apparel sector, in its magazine’s latest issue, has dedicated a special story to Cobrax and its buttons.

The Responsible of the Moulds and Presses in Padova shares how a 100% Made in Italy button comes to be.

La Regione Ticino newspaper published an article about the documentary “Stories of old zippers” aired on 14th March 2021 on LA1 Swiss Channel.

The collection plays out the different emotional responses to the pandemic.

The Swiss newspaper La Libertè has published a special feature on the Riri world, with a special visit/report dedicated to its headquarters in Mendrisio.
From its history, to the tailored approach to products and customers: our “temple of the zip” from close up.

The new Storm Evo by Riri described in detail in Arsutoria Magazine, the web portal dedicated to accessories. A product of extensive technical and engineering research, Storm Evo is the zip designed for outdoor apparel, an increasingly strategic sector for our Group.

An interview with Nantas Montonati, Riri Group Sales and Marketing Manager, for the “Face 2 Face” feature in the online magazine Fibre 2 Fashion: thoughts about the present, ideas for the future and the brand strategy on the accessory market for the fashion industry are some of the topics explored in this in-depth analysis of the contemporary scenario.

The British brand has chosen Cobrax Metal Hub for its exclusive bags.

The book “Made in Switzerland – die Schweiz im Plakat” retraces the history of the most famous Swiss advertising campaigns.

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