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1978 Following a law aiming at
protecting the environment, a few business managers from
Libourne, a middle-size town located in
Gironde
, create IPAQ SA (Industries Propres d’Aquitaine).
IPAQ’s business consists of collecting and managing
industrial waste.
1979 On the request of the BSN Group in
Vayres, IPAQ takes over a small company going into
liquidation and making cullet (recycled glass) from
collected glass for the BSN Group. Until 1990, IPAQ
developed two businesses: collecting and managing
industrial waste, and collecting and processing bottle
bank glass.
1991 IPAQ specializes
in the field of glass recycling, starts the building of a
new, more efficient plant and sells the industrial waste
management business unit. The new plant based in Izon is
inaugurated in October 1991.
1997 BSN and MALTHA (leading
company in the European glass recycling industry) Groups
join to buy IPAQ. The BSN Group was then one of MALTHA’s
business partners and shareholders.
Early
1998 A
second glass processing plant is set up in Lavilledieu (South
East France) and supplies BSN GlassPack’s glass furnaces
with cullet in Labégude.
Late
1998 A
third glass processing plant is inaugurated in Puy
Guillaume (centre of France) in order to supply the BSN
GlassPack facilities with cullet.
2001 IPAQ Lavilledieu supplies
BSN’s furnaces in Labégude and Béziers with cullet.
IPAQ Puy Guillaume processes container glass for BSN’s
furnaces in Puy Guillaume and Veauche (
Loire
).
2002 Following changes in the colour of
the cullet used by BSN Puy Guillaume and BSN Veauche, IPAQ
Puy Guillaume supplies Saint Gobain facilities in Saint
Romain le Puy.
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KEY FIGURES
Glass
recycling
In
2007, 2,1 million tons of container
glass were collected in bottle banks and
processed in
France
:
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2,1 million tons of container glass
can save as many
tons of sand
(raw material) ;
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1 ton of cullet (recycled glass), in
comparison with 1 ton of
natural raw
material (sand), releases
500 kg
less
of carbon dioxide (quarrying,
transport
and fusion included) ;
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Over the last 30 years, glass recycling
saved 12 million TOE ;
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Over the last 30 years, glass recycling
avoided sending
25 million cubic
meters of glass waste to
waste
landfills.
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Late 2007 IPAQ Puy Guillaume stops
processing glass and the business is transferred to Béziers
where the O-I Group (the BSN Group was bought by
Owens-Illinois, a worldwide glass package making) owns a
plant.
January 2008
IPAQ Izon invests in two HRUV laser technology sorting
machines to sort out vitroceramic elements.
June 2008
IPAQ Béziers new facilities are
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