Moët Hennessy & Verallia: A strategic partnership to accelerate industry decarbonization and develop a new generation of glass packaging
Moët Hennessy, the wine and spirits division of LVMH, and Verallia, Europe’s leading and the world’s third-largest producer of glass packaging for food and beverages, announce their strategic research and development partnership dedicated to designing new glass solutions combining resource efficiency, circularity and performance.
From left to right: Romain Barral, Operations Director at Verallia, and Frédéric Dufour, member of the Moët Hennessy Executive Committee and Deputy Managing Director of MHCS @James Bort
This alliance between Moët Hennessy and Verallia reflects a shared conviction that major environmental, societal and regulatory shifts are accelerating and call for new, collective solutions at the intersection of innovation and industrial excellence. Glass packaging accounts for up to 30% of the wine and spirits industry’s carbon footprint.
For Moët Hennessy, leader in the premium and super-premium category, reducing bottle weight and improving the energy mix, particularly through its work with Verallia, are at the heart of its decarbonization strategy, in place for many years. The initial results of this approach can already be observed across several products from the Champagne Maisons, Hennessy, Terrazas de los Andes, Chandon, as well as Château Galoupet.
For Verallia, reducing packaging weight, developing new technologies and decarbonizing industrial processes are key pillars of its innovation and sustainability strategies. This commitment is part of an ambitious CO2 emissions reduction pathway, validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), with the objective of achieving Net Zero for scopes 1 and 2 by 2040 and scope 3 by 2050. By joining forces, Moët Hennessy and Verallia aim to develop a new generation of glass packaging combining maximum weight reduction with strength.
The program targets a 30% to 50% reduction in bottle weight through technologies to strengthen the glass and processes to preserve its mechanical performance.