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Verallia, third HISTORICAL GLASSMAKING bottles, mainly for the beers and
TRADITIONS spirits markets. A role model for
global producer of Opened in 1827, the Vauxrot the circular economy, the Vauxrot
plant is the Verallia group’s his- plant recycles very high quantities
glass packaging torical glassmaking facility. In of cullet processed by Everglass in
2015, Verallia invested several Rozet-Saint-Albin, 30 kilometres
for food and hundreds of thousands of Euros from the site.
to adapt its installations to the new “We now have an extensively
beverages, dark amber colour. Almost black modernized manufacturing facil-
with high density, it protects the ity to continue improving qual-
offers innovative, contents from the effects of light ity and productivity, essential
and gives products an image of on highly competitive markets.
customized and refinement and distinction. With We’ve also improved our teams’
the Saint-Romain-le-Puy facility working conditions using the
environmentally (Loire, France), Vauxrot is one of 5S method which helps us to
only two Group plants in France ensure safety, cleanliness and the
friendly solutions making yellow and dark amber organization of the plant at all

to more than

10,000 customers

around the world.

In this article, the

company ‘speaks’

about its recent

new furnace

lighting at its

historical Vauxrot

glass plant, now

making bottles

for the wine, spirits

and beer markets.

© Verallia – Ph. Franck Dunouau

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