Stoelzle Glass Group is proud to announce the rebuilding of the furnace at its French production site in Masnières, in the Hauts de France region of northern France.

" Even in these difficult times, our priority is to continue investing in all our sites. In France, the new, enlarged furnace will enable us to maintain our position as a center of excellence for the manufacture of high-end bottles and jars for the international perfume and cosmetics industries", explains Etienne Gruyez, Chairman and CEO of Stoelzle Masnières Parfumerie.

In addition to rebuilding its oven, Stoelzle Masnières Parfumerie will be considerably increasing its capacity. As a result of this extension, a 5th production line will be installed to meet customer demand for top-of-the-range perfumery and cosmetics products even more effectively.
The total investment amounts to almost 20 million euros. Construction work will start in November 2020, so that the furnace will be ready for production in early January 2021.

Texen and Roctool have signed a non-exclusive partnership agreement to enrich Texen's industrial offering and support the group's commitment to eco-responsibility. Now equipped with its first Roctool equipment, Texen supports brands in their ecological transition with new solutions capable of enhancing packaging. Strongly committed to an ambitious CSR approach, the PSB Group is once again reinforcing the eco-responsible positioning of its Texen brand through the evolution of its manufacturing processes. The adoption of Roctool technology will enable PSB to reduce the environmental impact of its packaging while maintaining the expected quality and aesthetics. In this context, Roctool technology combined with recycled materials made perfect sense.
This collaboration is the fruit of a global reflection. Texen and Roctool intend to develop a complementary value proposition in the beauty sector, providing brands with eco-responsible, agile and economical productivity solutions. 

"This agreement marks our determination to accelerate the transformation towards more responsible packaging, and thus contribute to the sector's environmental transition, with a robust, credible and attractive technological alternative. Roctool's technology promises strong prospects, particularly in terms of reducing the ecological impact of surface treatment and the use of new eco-responsible materials, while guaranteeing outstanding surface finishes. This partnership is perfectly in line with our mission "To transform matter into experience in a virtuous way". We look forward to presenting our customers with the various possibilities on offer." comments Rémi Weidenmann, CEO of PSB. 

The arrival of the first two Roctool systems at the start of 2020 has enabled production to get underway, perfectly embodying "ecological requirements" and "outstanding surface finish". The combination of these two areas of expertise has created real added value for customers and consumers alike. As a next step, the Texen Lab will soon be equipped (late 2020) with new ultra-compact, high-performance Roctool systems. Thanks to this technology, Texen Lab is strengthening its ability to homologate new materials, and anticipating changes in development and industrial processes towards turnkey solutions. And, of course, it plays an active part in the packaging sector's ecological transition. 

" We are proud that Texen has chosen our technology. Once again, this collaboration is a sign that Roctool Beauty Solution provides brands and their partners with a concrete response to the transformation of new materials, for optimized and responsible design, not to mention the economic dimension of our process. For our part, we're continuing our research and testing into the materials of the future, and the use that our technology will bring to the world of beauty. "concludes Mathieu Boulanger, Roctool CEO. 

As part of its CSR strategy, Verpack has developed a collaborative tool enabling it to inform its customers about the environmental impact of a case or box, with a view to identifying areas for improvement right from the design stage.
EcoLab was launched before the summer, following a lengthy engineering project led by the Group's CSR department. It didn't take long for the first optimization studies to make their mark.

This was demonstrated by the repacking of a cardboard case (the changes made to the cardboard, grammage, lamination and decoration reduced the impact on climate change by 40 %).

 A sophisticated process for conclusive analyses

Based on a holistic approach, EcoLab makes it possible to assess the potential impacts of a case or box from design to end-of-life. It incorporates referenced environmental parameters, invaluable for the eco-design and innovation process.
Backed by the international Eco Invent database (choice of materials, means of transport, material extraction, etc.), EcoLab is based on forecasts for up to 100 years.

 The life cycle assessment process identifies and quantifies the physical flows of material and energy associated with the human activities that a product is likely to generate at each stage of its life. It assesses the potential impacts and interprets the results in the light of stated objectives. The Eco Invent database contains significant life-cycle inventories covering energy (fossil or renewable), materials (chemical or natural) and waste treatment (incineration, disposal, sanitation, modes of transport). The tool calculates the product's impact on 14 identified criteria, such as ozone depletion, climate change, human toxicity or marine and terrestrial ecotoxicity. This study enables the brand to make its choices.

"In line with the Group's CSR commitment, we have chosen to use an LCA tool tailored to the constraints of our businesses. It is based on an advanced analysis method and constantly enriched data. The results obtained enable us to support our customers in their choices of design, materials, decorations, wedges, etc., in line with their environmental and cost objectives". explains Géraldine Delaval. Group CSR Manager.

The Fédération des Entreprises de la Beauté (FEBEA) announces the launch carried out at the initiative of SPICE (Sustainable Packaging Initiative for CosmEtics) of a tool to measure the environmental impact of packaging: the SPICE Tool. SPICE is the result of an international initiative launched in 2018 by L'Oréal and Quantis, joined by some twenty cosmetics companies and packaging suppliers, including FEBEA. All the partners have co-developed a methodology for measuring the environmental footprint of cosmetics packaging. Today, this methodology has become a tool open to all companies in the sector. This will enable them to measure and reduce the environmental footprint of each cosmetic packaging, over its entire life cycle. 

Faced with ecological urgency and increased pressure on resources, the cosmetics industry is convinced of the imperative need to reduce the environmental footprint of its products. It did not wait for the anti-waste law for a circular economy adopted last February, to launch its ecological transition and build concrete solutions to move forward.
Packaging accounts for a significant proportion of the total environmental footprint of cosmetic products. Reducing this impact means being able to measure it correctly, throughout the packaging life cycle, from design to recycling or end-of-life. It is this challenge that lies at the heart of the SPICE initiative: an evaluation method and eco-design tool for packaging, developed by cosmetics companies for cosmetics companies. This development was based on contributions from the initiative's members, including L'Oréal, which had already developed an in-house method for assessing packaging and formulas. This international initiative has already been joined by some twenty cosmetics companies and suppliers of cosmetics packaging, and by associated partners.

The SPICE methodology, an innovative, collaborative and voluntary approach to the sector

The eco-design of packaging raises many questions: which new materials should be chosen? How recyclable? What use should be made of recycled materials? How can refillable packaging be created? How should we think about the end-of-life of cosmetics packaging? To identify and validate appropriate and effective solutions, we need to be able to measure the environmental impact of each option.
Thanks to the mobilization of volunteer companies, the methodological reference framework developed by SPICE has now been supplemented by a unique shared eco-design tool, enabling the environmental footprint of cosmetics packaging to be measured. The tool quantifies the impact of packaging through 16 environmental indicators, including carbon emissions and their impact on climate change, resource depletion, water use and biodiversity. It is based on scientific findings and illustrated by empirical case studies. It is aligned with major international standards, including the European PEF method, ISO quality standards and the recommendations of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. 

An innovative tool for comparing the environmental footprint of different scenarios

Previous multi-criteria Lifecycle Analysis tools enabled us to measure the environmental impact of a packaging, but we had to choose, for example, between favoring CO2 emissions or water consumption. For the first time, SPICE makes it possible to determine the most favorable solution by weighting all these environmental criteria. So, even without any particular scientific skills, any company in the sector, whatever its size, will be able to choose the best environmental option for developing each of its packages.

A collaborative tool open to all

The SPICE tool can be used by the member companies that have developed it, as well as by all other players in the sector, whether they be major groups, or very small businesses or SMEs, which represent over 80% of French cosmetics companies. Indeed, the development of packaging assessment and eco-design tools today represents a prohibitive cost for most companies: thanks to SPICE, they can easily make the transition to more sustainable packaging. Perhaps this initiative will even inspire other sectors to take similar steps, adapted to their own products? 

As FEBEA President Patrick O'Quin explains: "SPICE enables the cosmetics sector to take a decisive new step forward in its commitment to the environment by enabling all companies, whatever their size, to define and implement concrete, ambitious and effective actions for more sustainable and virtuous packaging. This is why the FEBEA wanted to join this initiative and contribute to it, so that all its members could benefit. In our view, this type of shared, voluntary approach is best suited to accelerating the ecological transition of our sector, and, we hope, of other sectors of our economy".