As a part of its Sustainable Exception roadmap, the Rémy Cointreau group goals to cut back its carbon emissions per bottle by 50% by 2030 and to achieve internet zero by 2050. By 2025, the group is concentrating on to have 100% of its bottles being eco-conceived.
Hervé Buzon, worldwide advertising and marketing director for St-Rémy Brandy, mentioned: “Glass is the primary problem in our trade by way of CO2. Within the coming years at St-Rémy, we are going to focus our efforts on lowering manufacturing, use and transport of glass. We are going to do it by lowering once more the burden of our bottles, utilizing different supplies, or trying into experimenting in-store refilling choices for shoppers.”
In 2022, St-Rémy had modified its plastic 50cl St-Rémy VSOP and XO bottles and its 1.75l St-Rémy VSOP plastic bottle from PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate, a powerful plastic constituted of 100% virgin supplies) to recycled PET plastic (RPET).
As well as, the model has been lowering using secondary packaging by eradicating reward packing containers on its VSOP high quality, and discontinuing using virgin plastics in POSM and packaging.
The brand new, light-weight and 100% made in France bottles will assist cut back CO2 emissions each on the upstream and downstream by way of a discount of the first supplies and the lighter weight to hold throughout transportation.
Total, greater than 48 tons of glass can be saved per yr, leading to a discount of 70 tons of CO2.
