Verallia France has announced plans to invest more than €65 million by 2025 at Chalon sur Saône to modernize the Group’s largest plant. Of this, €60 million, planned as part of the Growth and Competitiveness Pact (GCP) approved last June by the Group’s employees, will be used to equip the site with three new state-of-the-art furnaces to replace the three current ones.

The additional €5 million will be used this year to increase the site’s production capacity and make it more competitive and responsive to new market growth opportunities.

This investment will also reinforce the programme to lighten the weight of certain bottles, in response to growing demand from customers who want to reduce their environmental footprint.

This concern is fully in line with Verallia France’s intention to fulfil the ambitious environmental commitments made at the Group level.

The Chalon sur Saône plant is the largest of the Group’s 32 plants, both in size and production capacity.

It can produce 1 billion bottles per year.

“The industrial development of our plants is at the heart of our strategy. This €65 million investment project is perfectly in line with the Group’s industrial modernization strategy and demonstrates our determination to meet our commitments under the Growth and Competitiveness Pact signed last May. Our ambition is to make the Chalon plant a competitive, flexible and reliable facility to best serve our customers in flint and dead leaf coloured glass, characteristic of Burgundy wine bottles, while ensuring safety and better working conditions for our employees,” said Olivier Rousseau, President of Verallia France.

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