Industry Metal packaging Founder A. Desjardins | Founded 1848 Headquarters Paris | |
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Type Unlisted public company (société par actions simplifiée) Key people Managing Director
Pierre Gachot | ||
Desjardin is one of the longest running French metal packaging manufacturers, founded in 1848. The company produces and exports packaging for multiple industries, including the pharmaceutical industry, the cosmetic industry or the food industry. Desjardin places emphasis on sustainable solutions for its packaging materials and its tools.
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The company also specializes in customized metal manufacturing to produce cans and tins. It further provides technical assistance for developing new metal products. Much of these custom products are aluminum containers of all shapes and sizes. Clients can select choose from various formats, closings and finishing for creating custom tins.
History
The Paris-based company was launched by the Desjardins family in 1848, during the formation of the French Constitution and in the middle of the industrial revolution under the name A. Desjardins. The company later changed the firm's name to "Desjardin". The company helped innovate packaging that served food preservation.
Desjardin used tin cans from its launch. It also manufactured tinware such as pots and pans. By the late nineteenth century, the company worked with film studios to provide metal cans designed to preserve 16mm and 35 mm films.
The company established relationships with filmmakers and has played a role in protecting film throughout the twentieth century. It provided tin for Eastman Kodak and Agfa Geveart for many years. As a partner with Laboratories Éclair, LTC, Desjardin provided movie theaters with tins as well.
In the 1900s Desjardin expanded the number of industries it served to include biscuits and confectionary. After moving to the Paris suburb of Gonesse in 1963, the Desjardin family continued to run the business until 1981, when current President Pierre Gachot took over. Since then Gachot has invented new packaging automation tools, such as the Caviar box vacuum closer in 1988.
Desjardin Today
Today Desjardin manufactures a wide range of packaging for several industries and holds a leading role in vacuum packaging. The business covers five continents and leads the world in the production of caviar tins and film tins. The company uses CAD systems for designing its metal packaging products. Beginning in the 2000s, Desjardin has partnered with several cosmetics brands and has placed a major focus on materials that can be recycled.
Vacuum packaging performed by its semi-automatic machine, the Vacuum Closing Machine (VCII), has allowed Desjardin to conserve offset printing inks. The transportable machine has been conceived for low maintenance operations requiring reduced setup and no compressed air.
As a manufacturer of packaging for the cosmetics industry, Desjardin offers a wide range of containers to accommodate cream, balm, powder, oil, sprays and other cosmetics. The company commonly makes aluminum containers with screw on lids for cosmetics. Desjardin provides pharmaceutical packaging for products such as lipgloss, or gel. Typical containers are round with screw lids made of aluminum and metal tins. The company makes larger boxes for the food industry to package biscuits, confectionary and chocolates. They also make tin round containers for tea, coffee and spices.
Sustainability and the Environment
Tinplate and aluminum are favored by Desjardin for their environmentally friendly properties. They can be used over and over, since they are easily recycled without creating wasteful byproducts. For several decades now, the company has been emphasizing the environmental benefits of aluminum, which include abundance, flexibility (engineering) and durability.
Multiple reasons make Desjardin privilege metals. They dispose of a high electrical conductivity as well as functionality for machinery. The fact that 95% of metal can be recycled, makes it an eco-friendly material. Metals, including tin cans, are easy to recycle with minimal loss of quality, which is why scrap is in high demand. Since metals have a long lifespan, they can be categorized as sustainable.
Aluminum is one of the most recycled types of metal. While aluminum manufacturers must still deal with mining, chemical and landfill issues, Desjardin encourages recycling and is participates in the debate on developing more sustainable solutions. The company argues that aluminum is both lightweight and strong, making is highly efficient with minimal damage to the environment. Aluminum helps lower both shipping costs and greenhouse gas emissions.