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contributes to reducing fossil
fuel consumption and minimiz-
ing CO2 emissions, in line with
Verallia's environmental com-
mitments. These renovations
also improve the ergonomics
and safety of the Burgos plant
and the working conditions of
its employees.
Olivier Rousseau, General Manager of Verallia France,
gathered many customers at the Lagnieu plant to celebrate Verallia Chairman and CEO
the reconstruction of one of the plant’s two furnaces, Michel Giannuzzi said, “With
specialized in the manufacture of glass food containers. this new furnace, the Burgos
plant has state-of-the-art tech-
he company's most recent Manager of Verallia in Spain nology for the manufacture of
renovations at their Burgos and Portugal during the cel- glass bottles mainly for the wine
Tfactory in Spain is part of a ebration of the 50th anniversary and spirits markets. Our policy
larger investment initiative. of the Burgos plant where the of sustained investment in Spain
Verallia invested 33 million new furnace was inaugurated. and in all our plants enables
EUR in its Spanish plant in The latest technologies and us to improve the operation-
Burgos, and after reconstruc- materials have been used in the al excellence of our industrial
tion, the furnace has become reconstruction to improve the facilities in order to become
one of the largest in Europe. plant's energy efficiency and the preferred supplier of glass
By combining the capacities of environmental impact. This packaging.”
its two furnaces, the plant now
produces 600 million glass bot-
tles each year, mainly for the
wine and spirits markets.
The export capacity of
Verallia's Spanish custom-
ers and the growing sensitiv-
ity of consumers to glass make
Spain a strategic country for
the Group. For this reason and
because of the site's proximity to
one of the largest wine-growing Verallia’s investment in their Burgos
regions (Castile and Leon, La plant improves its capacity and versatility
Rioja and Castilla-La Mancha), while becoming more energy efficient
the Burgos plant is perfectly and minimizing emissions
positioned to serve the many
vineyards that are increasing
their production.
Verallia's investment in the
furnace increases the plant's
production capacity from 560
to 600 million bottles per year
to meet the growing demand for
glass packaging in Spain. It also
makes the factory more flexible:
the 7 production lines are capa-
ble of simultaneously manufac-
turing up to 8 different models,
standard or customized.
This makes it possible to
offer “more quickly, tailor- The Verallia plant in Jacutinga has created
made solutions to our custom- 172 direct jobs and 90 indirect jobs
ers,” said Paulo Pinto, General

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