SULO Partner Days 2025. Three days, one complete view of waste collection.

SULO Group’s distribution partners play a central role in bringing its waste collection solutions to markets around the world. To deepen this collaboration, the Group invited 38 partners from 18 countries to France for three days of dialogue, discovery and exchange. After a start in Lyon, the group travelled by bus via Dijon to the SULO plant in Langres.

Inside the Langres plant

In Langres, the Group’s historic site for two- and four-wheel bins, partners followed the entire production process – from robot-assisted injection moulding to quality control. An optical sorting unit and a live recycling station showed how recycled plastic is recovered and processed into raw material for new bins, in a circular process from design and production to take-back and recycling.

“Our partners are the ones who bring our solutions to municipalities, collection operators and businesses in their markets. Opening our plants and sharing our roadmap with them is how we build partnerships that last.”

Thierry Koskas, President, SULO Group

SULO Café: deep dives with the experts

In themed “SULO Café” workshops, partners met the people behind the products and discussed specific solution areas:

• Sustainability
• Bio-waste collection
• Digital services and artificial intelligence
• New products and innovations
• Compaction solutions from Orwak and Sacria

Stationary containers at Collvert

On the final day, the group visited Collvert in Dagneux, SULO Group’s centre for customised above-ground and underground collection systems. Product experts presented the full range of stationary containers in live demonstrations – Molok semi-underground systems, underground systems, NEXO side-loader containers, recycling stations such as Marti and CityBox systems – and showed how modularity, safety and local adaptation work in dense urban areas as well as industrial sites.

“What stays with me from the Partner Days are the conversations: on the production floor, over dinner, between partners from different countries. Events like this turn business contacts into personal relationships – and those relationships are the foundation of everything we achieve together.”

Oliver Grosch, Managing Director Germany & CEE, SULO Group

The event was attended by Thierry Koskas, President, Izaskun Ibietatorremendia, VP Growth, Innovation & Marketing, Oliver Grosch, Managing Director Germany & CEE, and Hassan Benhamadi, Managing Director Overseas.