Between 2020 and 2025, we will rebuild all our 7 furnaces and upgrade them with new technologies (live monitoring systems, better thermal insulation, increased electric boosting). These improvements will eventually enable us to improve our overall energy efficiency by at least 7% by 2025.

In 2019, we commenced a   major plant development project Sucy-en-Brie, France. This Capex, 31 million€ in total, is the biggest SGD Pharma investment since the Saint-Quentin- Lamotte plant construction. The Sucy-en-Brie factory, already ISO 15378 & 50001 certified facility with 8 production lines connected to ISO 8 clean rooms, will join a next generation of pharma glass packaging units.

The project includes the complete rebuilding and upgrading of the furnace 2, the modification of the building itself, the full revamping of the ISO 8 cleanrooms, new-generation IS machines and the installation of the most advanced technologies available for automatic product inspection. Thanks to live monitoring systems, better thermal insulation and increased electric boosting, CO 2 emissions will be reduced by 10%. The re-design of circulation areas will improve furthermore the safety of the plant.