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THE BONNIERES SITE

CHANTOVENT is based in BONNIERES:
Offices and warehouses, on the banks of the Seine, with a railway branch line.
Direct access to the A13 PARIS-ROUEN motorway.

The Bonnières sur Seine site comprises:

• The head office
  
• Sales department
  
• An analysis laboratory
  
• Chais (wine maturing facilities)
  
• Bottling lines
  
• A warehouse, one part of which is air-conditioned
  

This site comprises a total area of 27,160 m², of which 12,000 m² is under cover.
Total bottling capacity is 150,000 bottles/day. The vathouse has a storage capacity of 32,000 hectolitres for 82 vats.

We operate 6 bottling lines:

• 1 high-speed line (litres and 0.75L in glass): 10,000 bottles/hour
  
• 1 line for 4-packs and 75cl: 7000 bottles/hour
  
• 1 PET bottling line: 9,000 bottles/hour
  
• 1 sterile line for export: 7000 bottles/hour
  
• 1 line for cubitainers
  
• 1 line for Bag-In-Box containers
  

Bottled volume is 280,000 hectolitres/year.

Storage capacity is 2 million bottles.

Bottle production (PET 1.5 litre bottle) is 3,500 bottles/hour.

Our analysis laboratory is completely equipped with bacteriological control equipment, together with an automatic analyser for physiochemistry under the direction of a laboratory supervisor, who is also oenologist.



Technical innovation

PET

For Chantovent, environmental protection has always been a priority, which is why the company has invested 500,000 Euros in a PET bottle blowing and bottling line in 2000. Moreover, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of environmental protection amongst both distributors and consumers alike, and the European authorities are encouraging manufacturers and distributors to reduce packaging materials.

The advantages are the following :

• The material is recyclable
  
• The glass-like, sheen and transparency, reassures consumers
  
• Rigidity, solidity, impact resistance
  
• Gas impermeability
  
• Extremely lightness of a bottle (40g), reducing transport costs. For your information, the 1.5 litre PVC bottle weighs 60g and the glass magnum 750g.
  
  

• to improve the quality of filtration in order to preserve the authenticity of the wines
  
• to improve working conditions
  
• to improve environmental considerations: removal of filtration sediment residues

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