Vetropack Holding

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Vetropack Holding AG

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legal form Corporation
ISIN CH0006227612
founding 1911
Seat Bülach SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland 
management
Number of employees 3,243
sales 601.7 million CHF (559.3 million euros )
Branch Container glass
Website www.vetropack.com

The Vetropack Holding AG with headquarters in Bulach and legally established in Saint-Prex is an international Swiss packaging glass manufacturer . The group of companies employs around 3,200 people and generates sales of around 600 million Swiss francs. The company is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange .

Field of activity

The company has seven glass factories with a total of 16 melting tanks in which glass packaging for the food and beverage industry is manufactured. The company also offers various related services such as advice and support in the field of packaging analysis, filling, conditioning and sealing technology, glass finishing and labeling.

In addition, she is responsible for all Swiss glass recycling through the subsidiary Vetrorecycling , the Austrian subsidiary through Austria Glas Recycling also in Austria.

history

Bülach preserving jar system 1948

The company was founded in 1911 by Henri Cornaz in Saint-Prex as the Verrerie SA glassworks . In 1917, Verrerie SA took over the majority of shares in Glashütte Bülach AG, which was founded in 1891 .

The legendary preserving jar , which from 1920 made the name Bülach known to "in the farthest Swiss village", was inspired by the federal government due to the shortage of preserving jars during the First World War.

With the takeover of the trading house Müller + Krempel AG as the owner of the Wauwil glassworks in 1959, Verrerie SA gained the leading market position for packaging glass in Switzerland.

In 1966, Vetropack AG, headquartered in Bülach, was founded as the central sales and management company for the three glass factories in Saint-Prex, Bülach and Wauwil, which had previously been operating independently in the market, and at the same time the common Vetropack logo was introduced as a trademark. In 1969 the group of companies gave itself a holding structure with the establishment of Vetropack Holding AG.

In order to sensibly recycle the increasing amount of waste glass in its own glass works, Vetropack organized the nationwide collection of waste glass in Switzerland in 1974 and founded Vetro-Recycling AG as an operating company for this purpose.

Due to the market saturation for glass packaging, Vetropack diversified into plastic packaging and took over Wirth-Plast AG in 1981 and Afex Folien AG in 1985 . In 1986 the production of PET bottles was started (Claropac) and with the takeover of Femit in 1987 it was expanded to include plastic packaging for pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. In 1993 the foil division was sold. In 1996, as part of its geographic expansion, Vetropack parted with PET bottle production due to the ongoing losses and concentrated on its core business.

In the meantime, the company expanded into other European countries and took over the Pöchlarn glassworks in Austria in 1986, the Moravia Glass glassworks in the Czech Republic in 1991 , Lutzky Glas in Austria in 1993, the Straža glassworks in Hum na Sutli in Croatia, and the Skloobal packaging glassworks in Croatia in 2002 Slovakia and in 2006 the Gostomel Glass Factory in Ukraine.

Production in the Bülach glassworks was discontinued at the end of February 2002 after 111 years of existence. The reason for the closure was the drop in prices due to the internationalization of sales markets and the generally high level of costs in Switzerland. The Swiss market is supplied from the production plant in Saint-Prex and the Vetropack plants in Austria.

Vetrorecycling

Vetrorecycling is Vetropack's division that takes on all glass recycling . The vetrorecycling department accounts for around a third of the total amount collected in Switzerland (110,371 tons of 345,443 tons of waste glass in 2010), making it the largest glass recycler in Switzerland. The processing of the costs of recycling is carried out by VetroSwiss (CCC AG), the Swiss agent for the advance disposal fee.

A good part of the glass waste can be recycled in the company's own smelter in St-Prex.

Vetropack Austria

The Austrian subsidiary consists of the operational Vetropack Austria Holding AG and Vetropack Austria GmbH . It is one of the leading container glass manufacturers in Europe. It operates two glass factories:

  • the glass factory in Pöchlarn , Lower Austria (founded in 1979 by Stölzle Oberglas , taken over in 1986) It has a furnace capacity of 470 t / day in two melting furnaces, the second with three furnaces over 570 t / day, the annual production is over 300,000 good tons. A total of over 1 billion pieces are sold, with an export quota of 30%. 23% of production is made in the wine / sparkling wine / spirits sector, 54% beer / mineral / soft drinks / fruit juice, and 23% food. Annual sales of over € 150 million are generated.
  • the Lutzkyglas parent plant in Kremsmünster , Upper Austria (founded in 1949, taken over in 1993).

Vetropack is also a 50% shareholder in Austria Glas Recycling  GmbH, which manages the entire recycling of packaging glass, and is an industry recycling company in the Austrian recycling association Altstoff Recycling Austria  (ARA).

literature

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Web links

Commons : Vetropack Holding  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Vetropack Holding AG: Annual Report and Compensation Report 2016 . Bülach 2017, p. 90.
  2. Organization. In: www.vetropack.com. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  3. Vetropack Holding AG: Annual Report and Compensation Report 2016 . Bülach 2017, p. 86.
  4. a b Vetropack Holding AG: Annual Report and Compensation Report 2016 . Bülach 2017, p. 5.
  5. Vetropack Holding AG: Annual Report and Compensation Report 2016 . Bülach 2017, pp. 5, 44, 54, 90.
  6. description Bülach glass of the Museum of Design , Zurich
  7. Unsuccessful for ten years . In: Handelszeitung . No. 12/96 , March 21, 1996 ( article online , schweizerversicherung.ch).
  8. ^ Oven in the Bülach glassworks deleted , NZZ, February 25, 2002
  9. Vetrorecycling
  10. Glass recycling 2010: Very good result for Switzerland , vetrorecycling.ch → News , August 15, 2011, accessed March 27, 2012
  11. a b Vetropack Austria Holding Aktiengesellschaft , company register data, Creditreform / firmenabc.at
  12. ^ A b Gerhard A. Stadler: The industrial legacy of Lower Austria: history, technology, architecture. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2006, Pöchlarn , p. 548 f, ISBN 978-320577460-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  13. Vetropack Austria GmbH , vetropack.ch (pdf; 57 kB); Vetropack Austria GmbH (Austria) , vetropack.at
  14. Lutzkyglas Ges.mbH (Ed.): Lutzky-Glas 1924-1984. Kremsmünster 1984. 41 p. And years Lutzkyglas 1924-1989. Kremsmünster 1989. O. Pag. (Founded in 1924 in Vienna-Floridsdorf, since 1949 in Kremsmünster).