Champagne brand cuts back weight on half-bottles
CHAMPAGNE brand Telmont has examined its production line once again to improve its sustainability credentials by cutting back on the weight of its half-bottles.
After the brand carried out empirical tests across the range, Telmont managed to find a way to cut back on the weight of these half-bottles, going down to 460g from 500g.
In doing so, the brand reckons it will be able to cut back on CO2 emissions caused from the production of the Champagne bottles by using less glass in the manufacturing process.
Because of the manufacturing process, bottle production is one of the main sources of indirect CO2 emissions for a champagne house, with Telmont stating it makes up 24% of its total emissions. Therefore, making the bottles lighter cuts back on the amount of glass produced and, in the process, reduces the environmental impact that the brand has.
To help achieve this, Telmont worked alongside glass manufacturer Verallia, who strive to introduce more sustainable practices to glass production.
This follows on the success the brand found for its standard 750ml glass bottles after Telmont managed to cut down the weight of these bottles from 835g to 800g. During this process, Telmont also broke away from tradition by adopting ‘transition glass’ to the range which cut back on materials going to waste.
Now the Champagne brand is set to examine how it can repeat this process for its larger Magnum bottles – which are double the size of standard Champagne bottles, containing 1.5 litres of the liquid – and is now launching tests to see how this can be achieved.
Ludovic du Plessis, president of Maison Telmont, said: “Telmont is very proud to have contributed to the development of this 800-gram bottle and to be able to go even further with other formats.
“These eco-designed bottles are a step forward for our House, for Champagne and for the ecological transition. In the name of Mother Nature!”
Pierre-Henri Desportes, president of Verallia France, said: “The resistance tests prove it: the 800-gram lightweight bottle tested by Telmont has everything it takes to become the new standard for Champagne bottles in the long term.”
