Page 17 - Glass Machinery Plants & Accessories no. 5/2017

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VERALLIA

COGNAC GLASS PLANT

CELEBRATES THE

RESTARTING OF FURNACE

The teams at Verallia’s implement its operational
Cognac plant celebrated excellence strategy and
the restarting of one of the further strengthens its
factory’s three furnaces, foothold in the Charente
the unit specialized in region of France where
producing high quality it employs 430 people
extra-flint glass. on 4 manufacturing
This EUR 12 million sites. (glassmaking plant,
investment further Everglass household
strengthens the Verallia glass treatment site,
group’s territorial René Salomon facilities,
anchoring in Charente, with Société Charentaise
France, and its leadership de décor only recently
as the reference acquired in April 2017)
glassmaker on the “With this new
dynamic Cognac market. installation, we are
Work on modernizing increasing our capacity,
the cognac’s extra-flint our flexibility – notably
producing furnace lasted for the production of
less than two months large containers up to
and mobilized around 4.5l, and our quality
50 business partners. control. We have also
The furnace and its four taken care of the working
production lines were conditions for our
refurbished to increase teams: the lines are now
the facility’s extra-flint equipped with hoists to
output and flexibility. reduce load-carrying, the
The result of a long site’s ventilation has been
industrial history initiated enhanced and we have
in 1878 by Claude refurbished the furnace
Boucher, inventor of control cabin at the hot
the first glass-blowing end,” stated Christian
machine, Verallia’s Garnaud, Verallia
cognac plant today serves Cognac’s plant manager.
three main markets: still During the traditional
wines, sparkling wines, furnace lighting
and cognac and spirits. ceremony, the furnace
Most cognac producers, was symbolically relit
regardless of their size and by Véronique Martial,
their positioning opt for PA at the plant, and
extra-flint glass, a colour Patrick Bernardet,
unrivalled in terms of furnace rebuild project
transparency and shine. leader at Verallia, who
With this investment, are now respectively the
Verallia, a manufacturing furnace’s godmother and
corporation wholly godfather.
dedicated to glass
packaging, continues to