Groupe Roullier

Extra-Financial Performance Report 2020 Groupe Roullier A GROUP WITH REAL COMMITMENT Extra-Financial Performance Report 2020 Groupe Roullier A GROUP WITH REAL COMMITMENT ZOOM #1 CLOSING THE LOOP FOR THE PLASTICS VALUE CHAIN With the ultimate aim of developing a closed-loop circular economy, Agriplas-Sotralentz Packaging is currently working in partnership with a specialist French company for the collection and recovery of industrial packaging waste. The project is designed to create the following closed loop: the partner company collects used industrial packaging from customers, and recycles it using a mechanical process that produces a recycled raw material, which is then used by Agriplas-Sotralentz Packaging to create new packaging. The cycle will then be continually repeated. However, the most restrictive constraint of this project remains the composition of the recycled material, where it can be challenging to use materials derived from packaging that has previously contained a broad diversity of products, some of which may have been hazardous; other challenges include the quality of the material and its smell. Our Plastics subsidiary is therefore working closely with its partner on creating different grades of recycled materials that would remain specific to particular industries and markets (detergents, for example), and on a recycled material purification process to eliminate odours and potentially hazardous substances. ZOOM #2 ECO-DESIGNED, RECYCLABLE MADELEINE BAGS There is currently no channel for recycling flexible plastic packaging like the ones used by Pâtisseries Gourmandes for its products. Numerous avenues of research are under investigation, but in the meantime, the thickness of plastics used for individual product packaging has been minimised as an interim measure until an ideal solution can be identified. Nevertheless, this year, Pâtisseries Gourmandes has successfully leveraged innovation for the outer bag by working closely with its printers and CITEO (a not-for-profit company set up by packaging industry stakeholders to reduce the environmental impact of packaging) on a new 100% recyclable packaging material made from 67% FSC paper. The result has reduced the amount of plastic used in outer bags by 73%, which equates to 21 tonnes less plastic used every year! ZOOM #3 LIFE 5REFRACT: A NEW CIRCULAR ECONOMY MODEL FOR THE STEEL INDUSTRY Since 2018, Magnesitas Navarras has been involved in the LIFE 5RefrACT circular economy project alongside 5 other members of a Europe- wide consortium. The project is analysing synergies for the shared use of resources by steel companies and other major energy-consuming industries with the ultimate aim of creating an integrated recovery and recycling economy for refractory materials and make the ‘5Rs’ paradigm a reality: Reduce - Reuse - Remanufacture - Recycle - Re-educate. This collective approach is the first industrial initiative to focus on the management and recovery of refractory waste. The project is accredited and funded by the European LIFE programme for environment and climate action. 31 30 We’re committed to reducing packaging overall, and to using recyclable packaging for all our products.“ Charlotte Hache, Marketing Manager at Pâtisseries Gourmandes