# SGT lays first stone for €28M PET preform factory in Chalon-sur-Saône

SGT laid the first stone for a new 10,000 m2 factory in Chalon-sur-Saône making PET preforms, with an investment of nearly 28 million euros. The plant should be operational from spring 2019 and employ around forty people.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-07-03
- Where: Chalon-sur-Saône, France
- Value: $33.0M (28.0M EUR)
- Jobs: 40
- Status: under construction
- Capacity: nearly a billion preforms per year; 30,000 tonnes of raw materials; 12,000 tonnes per year RPET recycling
- Products: PET preforms, recycled RPET for bottle-to-bottle preforms
- Sectors: [Packaging](https://endata.com/sectors/packaging.md), [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md)

## Companies

- [SGT](https://endata.com/companies/3538.md)

## Sources

- [sgt-pet.com](https://www.sgt-pet.com/news/la-sgt-obtient-lhomologation-fda-3/), 2018-07-03: "SGT laid the first stone for the company's new factory at Chalon-sur-Saône"

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