Albéa invests in sustainable ‘made in America’ production

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Albéa, a fashion packaging company, has pledged to increase manufacturing in the USA while increasing their sustainable production commitments.

The group’s business in America accounts for 20% of the overall workforce. It is mostly focused on tube production (5 plants), but they also manufacture beauty packaging in Mexico and provide a turnkey offering in Canada.

Their objective in expanding the domestic workforce was to gain competitiveness, quality, and capacity to sustainability. These developments helped reduce energy consumption by 30%, produce tubes based on PCR plastic, and install equipment for laminated tubes compatible with the Greenleaf technology, which makes them recyclable.

“Over the past six months, 85% of our projects were sustainable products,” says Jennifer Raphaël, President of Orchard Custom Beauty. “We aim to reach 95% this year” 

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