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COMPANY PROFILE CONTAINER GLASS EUROPE

VOA - Verrerie d’Albi /

Verallia Group

Rue Francois Arago - Z.I. Albi Saint Juery B.P. 91
81003 Albi Cedex – France
Tel.: +33 - 5 - 63781036 - Fax: +33 - 5 - 63781011 - www.voa.fr

CO M P A N Y D A T A Exports
Site area VOA exports around 23 % of its production
to over 20 countries.
230.000 sq.m
2010 Sales
Number of employees
EUR 99 million
300
Investments
Number of plants
EUR 4 million per year
1
Production

Two continuous fire furnaces, 6 production lines.
Capacity: 180,000 tons.
5 basic colors: Green, Dead Leaf, Flint,
Extra Flint, Cannelle and Black Extra
Main Markets: Wine, Aperitifs & Spirits, Soft Drinks

OA Glass - located in Albi (France) - has car- glass used in France be recovered and recycled. In
ried on the great glassware tradition that grew 2012, 7 glass bottles of 10 are recycled in France.
Vup in the Tarn from the 14th Century. People In 2012, VOA recycled more than 85,000 tons of
have used their talent to master the alchemy of glass glass coming from households in the Midi Pyrenees,
from its molten state when it emerges from the fire that Cantal and Aude.
gives it all its nobility.
Ambitious objectives
Windows, bottles or works of art In 35 years of recycling the company has managed
Glass melted in the furnace will always be a noble ma- to recover 70% of household glass; that’s 2000 kt in
terial suitable for communicating every type of feeling. 2012 for France alone.
VOA has two furnaces with a capacity of 180,000 The target of 75% recycling is close but the last per-
tons feeding production lines for every kind of liquid centages are the most difficult to win. Who is con-
market, from the humble to the most prestigious. cerned by and must therefore act towards this shared
At the heart of the great vineyards of Southern Eu- objective:
rope, VOA is constantly improving its work through - The consumer that sorts all its glass household pack-
that legacy, to make it its motto for your satisfaction. aging (bottles and jars) for deposit in Recup Verre.
- Communities and their service providers, to provide
Key points quality services (logistics and communication)
The first glassmaking company in Europe to obtain an The VOA and its partner, Briane Environement, en-
integrated quadruple certification. gage with you to recycle more :
The actions of the VOA are part of a national (VERRE- - Separation of white glass and colored glass
AVENIR) and European (European Container Glass - Automated sorted colors
Federation) movement whose objective is that 75% of - Increased rate of cullet in the white and colored glass

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