{"id":24999,"date":"2026-05-22T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/?p=24999"},"modified":"2026-05-20T18:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:16:40","slug":"coveco-eco-efficient-washing-pilot-plant-for-cosmetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/coveco-eco-efficient-washing-pilot-plant-for-cosmetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Coveco: eco-efficient washing pilot plant for the cosmetics industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Since 2025, Ibbeo Cosm\u00e9tiques has been operating a pilot washing plant for the reuse of glass, metal and plastic cosmetics packaging.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ibbeo Cosm\u00e9tiques presents Coveco, a collective solution for washing and reusing cosmetics packaging. The project brings together a multi-technology washing technology called Coveclean and peripheral equipment to ensure direct reuse of containers on production lines.<\/p><div class=\"indus-dans-articles indus-entity-placement\" style=\"text-align: center;display: flex;justify-content: center;\" id=\"indus-4242626991\"><div class=\"indus-adlabel\">Advertising<\/div><div id=\"indus-3492262566\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/ad\/25262\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"site-industries-cosmetiques Promotional image of Handicap International\u2019s recyclable \u00abbook protectors,\u00bb featuring Spider-Man. The text highlights that a \u20ac1 donation is made for each purchase. The packaging comes in various sizes. Blue background with white text. Available for the 2026 school year.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KPL_2026_FORMAT-META-300x300px.png\" alt=\"site-industries-cosmetiques Promotional image of Handicap International\u2019s recyclable \u00abbook protectors,\u00bb featuring Spider-Man. The text highlights that a \u20ac1 donation is made for each purchase. The packaging comes in various sizes. Blue background with white text. Available for the 2026 school year.\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KPL_2026_FORMAT-META-300x300px.png 300w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KPL_2026_FORMAT-META-300x300px-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KPL_2026_FORMAT-META-300x300px-12x12.png 12w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"   \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Coveco solution<\/h2>\n<p>Since 2025, the first pilot plant has been operational in France, housing Coveclean's innovative multi-technology washing equipment combining detergents, aspersion and ultrasound. Coveco processes multi-material (glass, metal and plastic), multi-form and multi-cosmetic galenic packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Tests carried out in 2024\/2025 with some twenty European cosmetics brands focused on washing quality and unit traceability, in line with the microbiological and procedural requirements of European cosmetics regulations.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Towards eco-efficient washing<\/h2>\n<p>The Coveco project began with an analysis and feasibility phase. Assistance from Ademe and Citeo supported the first phase, which focused on life-cycle analysis and the feasibility of washing and reusing glass cosmetic bottles and jars. Phase 2 focused on collective and independent washing projects up to 2024, including trials and R&amp;D experimentation.\nThe project places eco-efficient packaging washing at the heart of a reuse dynamic to meet regulatory requirements and the AGEC law.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ibbeo Cosm\u00e9tiques exploite depuis 2025 une usine pilote de lavage pour le r\u00e9emploi d\u2019emballages cosm\u00e9tiques en verre, m\u00e9tal et plastique. Ibbeo Cosm\u00e9tiques pr\u00e9sente Coveco, une solution collective de lavage et de r\u00e9emploi d\u2019emballages cosm\u00e9tiques. Le projet rassemble une technologie de lavage multi\u2011technologie nomm\u00e9e Coveclean et des \u00e9quipements p\u00e9riph\u00e9riques pour assurer le r\u00e9emploi direct des contenants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"external_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[60],"class_list":{"0":"post-24999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-instrumentation","8":"tag-info-produit"},"acf":{"nc":"bobo.mylene@ibbeo-cosmetiques.fr","nc2":"contact@coveco-reuse.com","nc3":"","nc4":"","nc5":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25000,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24999\/revisions\/25000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.industries-cosmetiques.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}