SULO Group invests €10 million in its Langres plant.
With a new 6,000-tonne injection moulding press, SULO Group’s historic bin factory in Langres, France, now produces a four-wheel container every two minutes – while using 37% less electricity.
Key facts
- Site
- Langres, France
- Inauguration
- 17 September 2026
- Investment
- €10 million, financed from own funds
- Equipment
- 6,000-tonne injection moulding press
- Output
- One four-wheel container every two minutes
- Electricity
- –37% versus the previous equipment
On 17 September 2026, SULO Group inaugurated a new injection moulding press at its plant in Langres, France – the Group’s historic site for the manufacture of wheelie bins and four-wheel containers. With an investment of €10 million, financed from the Group’s own funds, it is the largest investment at the site in recent years. It represents almost two thirds of what SULO Group invests each year in modernising the equipment across its production sites.
Slightly more than half of the investment went into the press itself, a latest-generation machine with a clamping force of 6,000 tonnes designed in Austria. The remainder covered installation and preparatory works, including civil engineering. Around twenty companies from the Langres area were involved, and production was interrupted for only five days.
Record productivity, lower energy use
The new press produces a four-wheel container every two minutes – a record level of productivity for the site. At the same time, it uses 37% less electricity than the previous equipment, a saving equivalent to the consumption of 173 households. The Langres plant already runs on more than 90% renewable electricity.
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“This press is used for our four-wheel containers, but above all it is part of our environmental approach.”
Thierry Koskas, President, SULO Group
“The new equipment meets the needs of the market and the modernisation of our equipment that the Group is driving forward.”
Fédérico Pellegri, Plant Manager, SULO Langres
From waste to resource
The investment supports SULO Group’s ambition to produce waste collection solutions from existing materials, so that every piece of waste becomes a reusable resource. Recycled household plastic is processed into raw material for new bins; on average, 80% of the plastic in SULO Group bins is recycled material.
