Our company has its origin in Ferreira, a village in the province of Granada near Guadix. Since 1950, Don Manuel Caro Romero, the founder, was selling to his neighbors natural casings and spices used for making sausages during the pig slaughtering, that time it was a common practice in lots of private houses.

D. Manuel passed the baton to his son Antonio in 1968. His governance managed to expand the client portfolio by incorporating professionals from the butchery and sausage factories in the provinces of Granada and Almeria.

Following the family tradition, Don Antonio Caro Valero puts his son Antonio in charge of the company in 1997. His training in the production and business model involved the current CEO of United Caro to every task and position that make up the company. The company, with Antonio Caro Salmerón at the forefront, continued its geographical expansion, gaining the trust of new customers and improving the quality of the products. In 2004 new facilities and a brand new headquarters of the company were built in the city of Baza, which continues to be our main headquarters.

Ecotrip

With the creation of Ecotrip in 2007, the company is betting strongly on its main line of business: Natural Casings. Its main objective is to achieve products of its own making, innovative, capable of boost the market, which until then was not used to innovations, but in the same time with high respect to tradition in terms of quality and raw material.

Ecotrip achieves its first penetration record in 2010, producing a large part of the natural casings demanded nationally and internationally. This important milestone increased its innovative commitment and in 2011 it launched the Natural Dry Casing to the market, a rigorously homogeneous product on the entire length of the product, which can reach up to 20 meters with calibers up to 70mm, becoming revolutionary thanks to its easy conservation – since it does not need cold – and its high performance.

Since its creation, Ecotrip has structured a powerful commercial network in Spain and the rest of the world, arriving in 2015 to have permanent distribution in all the Spanish provinces and in 17 countries. The achieved success reaffirms Ecotrip commitment to innovation, and in 2016 it incorporates into its structure a new R + D + I department, whose objective since its creation is the continuous improvement of traditional products and the development of new products, such as our casing Especta Cular.

United Caro

In 2018 Grupo Caro is present in four of the five continents, with factories in China, Brazil, Morocco and Spain, for that reason the management decides to unite all the companies and subsidiaries under a single brand: United Caro. This firm consolidates good business practices that have made our company a world reference in the production of natural casings, in its commitment to quality, innovation and respect for the environment and raw materials.

Soon, the company will begin the construction of the first technological center in the world dedicated to the research and development of natural casings.