ABOUT US
We design, build and maintain liquid filling machines
Behind every filling machine we deliver there is a team of engineers committed to one thing: that our customers never stop producing.
This is who we are
Albert Rovira
Founder and CEO
A letter from our founder
We are an automation company. More than 20 years of experience in filling (since 2002); AiCROV was founded in 2006 and built its first filling machine in 2009. We have built them for every kind of liquid — aggressive, flammable, foaming, viscous, valuable — and that has taught us a great deal: which materials fail and where, how vapours attack a machine, how to protect the operator, how to fill accurately without slowing the line down.
But the greatest expert on your product is you. Hydrochloric acid from one producer is not the same as hydrochloric acid from another. Neither are the storage conditions, the way it is pumped, the temperature it arrives at, or how it behaves at the end of a batch. You handle it every day. You know how it is cleaned, how it is rinsed, and what happens when you change from one product to the next. That knowledge is worth more to a project than any material chart.
And it is not only the product. Two companies making the same chemical do not work the same way. Their operators are not trained alike, their maintenance teams are not organized alike, their engineering departments do not decide alike. One plant wants the operator to keep control of every step; another wants the machine to run alone while the operator does something else. One has a team that can fix anything; another needs a machine that never asks for anything.
A filling machine has to fit the plant and the people who will run it, not the other way round. That is what we adapt: our range, our experience and our tools, to the way you actually work.
It is why our first step is always a conversation, not a quotation.
We place our clients first and never compromise safety in favour of productivity.
Since 2006
manufacturing filling machinery
5
continents with AiCROV machines installed
180+
customers
300+
projects completed
How we got here
2006
The beginning
Albert Rovira founds AiCROV in Tarragona. An electronic engineer, he has worked in automation, filling and packaging since 2001.
2009
The first machine
The company builds its first liquid filling machine.
2010-2012
The first automatic lines
AiCROV delivers its first fully automatic machines for filling canisters and drums.
2014
Asia
AiCROV takes its machines outside Spain and works intensively in Asia, particularly in India, where it still has some of its most significant installations.
2020
Europe
With Asia consolidated, the company turns to the European market, where it has been growing steadily ever since.
2023
Australia and North America
With Europe on solid ground, AiCROV opens two new territories, with major projects on both continents, including a line with two Robot Fillers for IFF in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Today
AiCROV works worldwide, with agents and partners in many countries, and keeps growing.
What we build
Liquid filling machines for containers from 1 to 1,500 litres (up to 400 gal), in four series:
Compact
Automatic container movement and filling, with semi-automatic uncapping, capping and sealing.
SP2 and SP25
Robot Filler
An industrial robot carrying the complete tool set, with 3D vision.
Beyond the machines, we deliver conveyor systems and intralogistics, palletizers, and complete turnkey lines integrating labelling, capping, sealing and wrapping.
Engineered and built in Europe
AiCROV machines are designed and manufactured in Tarragona, Spain. Not assembled from parts built elsewhere: designed, built, wired, programmed and tested here, by the same engineers who will answer the phone when you call.
We build with open industrial components from globally distributed brands, with no proprietary electronics in the control chain, so that spare parts can be sourced locally and your maintenance staff work on platforms they already know.
Proven machines, adapted to the rules of your country
Our machines are not prototypes. They are proven designs, built and tested many times over, and we adapt each one to the electrical and safety regime of the country where it will run. You are never the experiment.
CE marking is the baseline, under European machinery legislation. Beyond it, our engineering team reviews each project against the requirements of the country of installation — such as UL for the United States, CSA and SPE-1000 field evaluation for Canada, AS/NZS 4024 and AS/NZS 3000 for Australia and New Zealand, or UKCA for the United Kingdom.
Depending on the country, we either arrange certification in our own workshop before shipping — which makes approval on site faster and simpler — or supply the full technical documentation so that the competent body or your own compliance team can approve the installation locally. We tell you which route applies to your country before you order.
Every AiCROV machine can be supplied in an explosion proof version. Where the machine is going into an area with a risk of explosive atmosphere, that protection is engineered as a specific part of the project, under the certification scheme that applies in the country of installation — ATEX in Europe, IECEx in many other markets, NEC in the United States.
How we work
Every project follows the same path, whether it is a single semi-automatic machine or a complete plant.
01
We listen
A conversation about your product, your containers, your output and your plant. Not a form.
02
We design
A configuration proposed for your process, with drawings where they help you decide.
03
We agree
Scope, drawings, milestones and responsibilities, fixed in writing before a single part is purchased.
04
We build
Manufacturing and assembly in Tarragona, with a project manager assigned to you from day one.
05
Factory Acceptance Test
We invite you to validate your machine at our facilities before it ships: static verification, safety systems, dynamic operation and filling tests with water.
06
Shipping and installation
Transport, commissioning and start-up at your plant.
07
Site Acceptance Test
Verification at your site, with your products, your containers and your caps, for as many runs as needed.
08
Training
Operation and maintenance training for your team, included with the installation.
09
After-sales
Technical assistance, remote support, spare parts and maintenance plans, for the whole life of the machine.
Some of the companies that have trusted AiCROV
The relationship covers filling systems for drums, IBCs, totes, canisters and pails, in the chemical, petrochemical, food, lubricant, agrochemical, fine chemicals and bulk pharma sectors, on every continent.
ARKEMA · BASF · BAYER · BERTSCHI · BHARAT PETROLEUM · BRENNTAG · CARGILL · CHR. HANSEN · CLARIANT · CORBION · COVESTRO · CRODA · ECOLAB · EVONIK · EXXONMOBIL · FUCHS · H.B. FULLER · HALLIBURTON · HEXION · INDIAN OIL · KEMIRA · LOUIS DREYFUS COMPANY · LUBRIZOL · LUKOIL · NOURYON · NUTRIEN · POLYNT · QUAKER · RENY PICOT · REPSOL · SAINT-GOBAIN · SHELL · SOLENIS · SYNGENTA · TETRA PAK · TOTACHI · TOTALENERGIES · VEOLIA · W. R. GRACE · YARA · ABUDAWOOD INDUSTRIAL CO · ADDITIUS SANTA MARIA · ADITIVOS CERÁMICOS · AEMEDSA · AL-MAJWAL · ALCOVER QUIMICA · ALVENTA SA · ARBISA SL · ASCC AUSTRALIA · BACHEM · BACHILLER BARCELONA · BECA GRAFIC · BEHQ · BENDALLS ENGINEERING · BIO ULJARICE · BIOGNOST · BOCOM PETROLEUM SA · BORGES · BTL- INDUSTRIAS METALÚRGICAS · BUDENHEIM · BÜFA CHEMICALS · CHEMOXY INTERNATIONAL LTD. · CHRISTEYNS · CIMSA · CONCENTROL · CONVERTE · COPEC · DALLANT · DELMON · DEVAL BIOLOGIE · DPQ · DYNEA · EMPACK · EOC BELGIUM · ERCROS · EUROFRAGANCES · FILL BLUE · FLEXPUR-POLÍMEROS DE POLIURETANO SA · FRAGRANCE SCIENCE · GOMÀ CAMPS · GOOD FOOD WINES (GFW) · GOROIL · GOVI DRONGEN · GOVI GANNT · HOLIFERM MANUFACTURING LIMITED · HOLLAND FILLING · IKANO INDUSTRY · INDUKERN · INDUSTRIAS LÁCTEAS ASTURIANAS · INNOVAQUÍMICA · INTEMAN, S.A. · INTERNATIONAL FLAVORS & FRAGRANCES INC. (IFF) · INVENTEC · IQOXE · KEIL ANLAGENBAU GMBH & CO. KG · KERSIA · KRYPTON CHEMICALS · KUPSA · LAINCO · LASEM · LEROUX & LOTZ · LEVERTON HELM · LLUCH ESSENCE · LUBOCONS CHEMICALS · LUBRICANTES SASH · MASPHATE · MEFSCO · METABOLIC EXPLORER · MORCHEM · MOSTOSA · MUNTONS · NCIC · OILCHEM · OLEOESTEPA · OMNIA · ORTHIOS OTECH5 LIMITED · OTERRA · PERA GMBH · PEROXYCHEM — FMC · PH7H · PINTALUBA · PLASPACK · PLIMON GLOBAL · PORCELANOSA · PROQUISUR · PROVITAL · QUIMICA EUROPEA DE RESINAS · SADAPS BARDAHL · SCENTIUM FLAVOURS · SEEDS N’SNACKS · SEIPASA · SEQENS · SKALA FABRIKK AS · SMALGLASS-ITACA · SOCIEDADE INDUSTRIAL DE BRITAGEM DE PEDRA · SORINI AGRO ASIA CORPORINDO (CARGILL) · SPINA GROUP · STAHL · STANTED · STORAGE PARTNERS · SUNAR · SUNAVO BV · SYNTHESIA · TALKE · TASHIA · TEHNOHEMIJA · TRIADA IMPEX · UNITED BETA INDUSTRIES · UNITED INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS · UNITED INITIATORS CANADA · UR PRODUCTS · VALAGRO · VALLS QUIMICA · VALTRIS SPECIALTY CHEMICALS · VERTEXCO · VOLA GLOBAL · VROMAN ARDECA LUBRICANTS · WEST PENETONE
Where we are
Headquarters and factory
Tarragona, Spain — an hour south of Barcelona
Carrer del Mercuri, 21 · 43006 Tarragona
Every country in the world has someone at AiCROV responsible for it.
Recognition
Internationalisation Award 2025. On 12 June 2025, AiCROV received the Internationalisation Award at the 9th SME of the Year Awards Tarragona 2025, organized by the Tarragona Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Read more →
Talks and trade fairs. Albert Rovira’s talk at Hispack 2012 in Barcelona, and ChemTech World Expo 2019. News →
In the press. Eleven articles in five publications and four languages, from 2006 to 2025. Press →