ANVI is a family SME with approximately 250 employees, managed since 2010 by Antoine Bouillard, grandson of the founder. Established since 1945 in Saint-Germain-du-Plain in Saône-et-Loire, it specializes in plastics; it has acquired, thanks to a succession of takeovers, mastery of three main processes or transformation technologies: injection, blow molding and rotational molding. The plastic parts can be very small or not, hollow or assembled, manufactured in large or small series… Its strong point is to be able to manufacture, on demand and quickly, large parts, with a hollow body and a strong thickness. Its current buoyant market is that of garden equipment.
ANVI plastics chain
The family group, having recently opened up its capital to three investors (UI Investissement, BFC Croissance and Caisse d’Epargne BFC LT) is increasing its international dimension and is aiming for €65 million in turnover in 2026, compared to €38.5 million in 2020. It has just acquired the garden branch of EMSA, a subsidiary of the German group SEB.
The group currently develops its activities on four sites. Faced with this expansion, the IT department has given itself a new priority: continuity of service. To secure the data, ANVI has chosen a new redundant infrastructure using ‘full flash’ technology (SSD disks) for data backup. On the recommendation of its IT service provider InfoProject, the DSI, headed by Patrick Girard, chose Dell EMC’s PowerStore storage bays. This range is equipped with Intel Xeon Scalable processors and benefits from end-to-end NVMe connectivity. It is equipped with a “software defined” architecture which makes it possible to increase the capacity of the racks, to add new ones or to add ‘appliances’ to them without interruption of service.
“Our medium-term objective is to move towards a PRA (disaster recovery plan) which could be outsourced or hybrid,” explains Christophe Girard, Infrastructure Manager at ANVI.
One of ANVI’s industrial sites
“The PowerStore offer and the Cloud infrastructure model allow us to absorb peaks in activity in particular,” he adds.
InfoProject provides the company with its DTiX data center (level tier 3+, ISO 27001), based in Dijon and designated as “the largest in the Burgundy region”.