Verallia’s Cognac facility has celebrated its 55th anniversary
The teams at Verallia’s Cognac facility celebrated this Saturday, 9 June, the plant’s 55th anniversary during an open day for the families of the site’s 500 employees and subcontractors. The day, organized with the active participation of all the site’s teams, gathered over 300 visitors.
On the day’s agenda: guided tour of the plant, photo exhibition highlighting the team’s glassmaking know-how and solidarity, various activities run by the employees and glassmakers’ sports associations (hiking, cycling and motorbikes, initiation to bowling…), “collections and passions” big tent where each person was able to present their hobby (collections, glass engraving demonstration…), planting of a tree and country evening.
“Our ambition is to be a benchmark glass plant and we have all the trump cards in our hands to get there: the love of the glassmaking profession, the attachment to our plant, solidarity, strong human relations and a positioning at the hearts of our markets. I would like to thank all the plant’s teams for their involvement and our customers whose trust is binding on all of us” commented Christian Garnaud, the plant manager, during the event.
In 1878, Claude Boucher, a 36-year old inventor and self-made man, originally from Cognac, founded the Faubourg Saint-Martin glass plant in Cognac. He installed his invention there: a mechanized glass-blowing machine. His idea in fact was to put an end to the harsh working conditions of the operators who w...
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