Centonze Ice Blue

White gloss ceramic. Blue Sicilian majolica. On glass.

Centonze is a Sicilian olive oil estate. Ice Blue is its most ambitious bottle: a white gloss ceramic surface with blue Sicilian majolica pattern printed directly on glass. It looks hand-painted. It is not. It is sublimation.

The result is visually identical to traditional ceramic. But it is glass — and that changes everything.

Why glass replaces ceramic

Ceramic looks striking. It also has hard limits. Small ceramic workshops produce limited quantities — production capacity is the first constraint. Glass is an absolute barrier: fully food-grade, with measured containers and consistent closure fit — no more cap problems from irregular surfaces.

Then there is the market reality. America wants urgent large orders and Proposition 65 compliance. Ceramic cannot deliver that. Glass with sublimated ceramic decoration can — at any volume, to any market, on any timeline.

What ATIU delivered

Full majolica pattern — intricate blue motifs on a white gloss ceramic primer — printed across the entire bottle in a single pass. No seams, no colour breaks, no limits on artwork complexity. The decoration faithfully reproduces the hand-painted quality of Sicilian ceramic tradition.

Pentawards 2025 Gold, sustainability category.

The principle

Ceramic, majolica, stone — any traditional material aesthetic reproduced on standard glass packaging. With the production capacity, food safety and regulatory compliance that ceramic cannot match.