Tubes crème mains Yves Rocher

Yves Rocher hand cream tubes

Somater has launched a tube with a lightweight 220µ PBL skirt to help the Rocher Group, a major player in the cosmetics industry and a certified B Corp company, with its ecological transition.

Committed by nature

The Groupe Rocher is committed to marketing eco-designed, responsible and recyclable packaging to its consumers by 2030. The objective of reducing the proportion of plastic by 25% and ensuring that its packaging is fully recyclable justifies a move towards PBL. Plastuni Lisses, renowned for manufacturing laminated tubes and having diversified its Web offering, was selected by the Rocher Group to relaunch its 30ml hand cream range.

This choice, which replaced the ABL film incorporating a non-recyclable aluminium barrier, was based on the benefits of a fully recyclable PE film and a reduction in film thickness. This conversion has resulted in an annual reduction of 2.7 tonnes of plastic and the elimination of 4.8 tonnes of aluminium.

This range includes 7 colourful references decorated by flexography and topped with a lightweight octagonal cap.

Somater à nouveau médaillé d’or par EcoVadis

Somater wins another gold medal from EcoVadis

With a score of 71, we have gained 4 points compared to the previous rating. The Somater Group has confirmed its performance in terms of CSR and is now in the top 5% of companies assessed by EcoVadis.

We are very proud of this gold medal and of our progress! Thanks to everyone’s efforts, we’re one step closer to our goal of reaching the top 1%, the ultimate level for which a Platine medal is awarded.

At a time when sustainable development has become essential for the future of our planet, this result reflects and rewards our commitment to making our environmental, social and ethical practices ever more virtuous.

You can find out more about our approach in our CSR 2022 report, available here.

A big thank you to our customers, our partners and all our teams who, through their support and commitment, help to turn our ambitions into concrete results.

Déodorants rechargeables Léa Nature

Léa Nature refillable deodorants

Somater has created a new format of deodorant for Léa Nature, a company with a mission to produce organic and natural products while respecting people and nature.

A sustainable roll-on
Léa Nature has chosen Somater to launch its new 50 ml refillable deodorant format. Through the brands SO’BIO étic and Natessance, Léa Nature offers five new organic references. This eco-designed range reduces the use of virgin plastic by 63%: a refillable deodorant accompanied by three 150 ml eco-refills can replace ten non-refillable deodorants. At the end of its life, this deodorant, manufactured in France by Somater, is 100% recyclable.

Adopt a new gesture!
In addition to being eco-responsible and in line with the trend to reuse cosmetic packaging, this innovative and easy-to-use format allows consumers to adopt a new gesture with ease. Simply unclip the base by pulling on it, manually clean the inside and the ball, then pour the content from the eco-refill. Once snapped in, it is ready to be used again.

Journée mondiale de la Sécurité Alimentaire

World food safety day

As a food packaging manufacturer, Somater, is particularly committed to product safety, quality, and legal compliance, as well as consumer protection. Our teams, daily contributors of continuous improvement, are committed to maintain and improve our standards and procedures to guarantee the safety and the high quality of our packaging, every day. This results in BRCGS certification for packaging and packaging materials.

On this world food safety day, Somater wants to highlight the BRCGS Packaging V6 and FSSC 22000 version 5.1 certifications. This standard attests that our food packaging production system is aligned with current legal and regulatory requirements. BRCGS is recognized worldwide by the GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) and includes an assessment of the company’s plants, operational systems, procedures, and suppliers.

We would like to thank all our employees for their contribution to make it happen, every day.

Rapport RSE 2022 Somater

Somater is proud to publish the 2nd edition of its csr report

Our CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) report 2022 outlines our ambitions and measures the progress we have made on sustainable development issues from a social, environmental and ethical point of view.

Highlights of this edition include improvements in our eco-design, recyclability and waste reduction indicators, as well as progress made in terms of CSR ratings and certifications.

Enjoy reading it!

Click here to download our CSR report

Journée mondiale de l’#eau

World Water Day

On this World Water Day, Somater would like to reiterate its ambition to develop responsible industrial and human resources.

But to ensure the effectiveness of our approach, we have it evaluated by external ratings.

This is once again the case with the compliance audit carried out at Plastuni Normandie with regards to decree no. 2021-461 on preventing the loss of plastic granules into the environment.

This plant is particularly vigilant about pollution risks, given its proximity to the coastal river Scie and the Channel.

This audit rewards the efforts made, which include containment, recovery and reprocessing of granules.

As well as periodic checks on the correct application of the operating procedures in place.

All the teams are also regularly made aware of the preventive measures relating to the risks of pollution.

Our objective is to have all our plants audited in 2023 on the proper application of this regulation.

Activated Mascara

Activated Mascara receives media acclaim

Officially presented at the last Paris Packaging Week trade show, our latest innovation, the refillable “Activated Mascara” with patented “Click, Turn and Apply” (CTA) technology and an antimicrobial brush, has just been praised in an article published on the Premium Beauty News website.

This innovation, which is fully in line with our eco-design approach, has all the assets to provide our customers and consumers with the answers they expect in terms of environment, hygiene and safety.

For more information, we invite you to read this article.

Les femmes mise à l'honneur chez Somater

Women in the spotlight at Somater

On this International Women’s Day, Somater is keen to highlight all its female employees and thank them for their constant contribution.

These talented women, whether they are production operators, quality technicians, sales managers, sales administration managers, plant managers or present in other key departments, shine every day through their commitment and customer focus. Each of them is an opportunity for the company, its customers and its partners, because they are the added value of Somater.

See you at the CFIA trade fair!

See you at the CFIA trade fair!

Somater & ANL Packaging are delighted to announce their joint participation at the upcoming CFIA 2023 show in Rennes, where innovation in the food-processing sector happens. Join us at stand 10-G13 and come and learn more about our EcoTribe™ platform and how we can support you in your ecological transition approach by reducing, recycling and reusing polymer packaging.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Visit our EcoTribe™ page!

Activated Mascara Pylote Simp

A mascara that is a real eye-catcher

Somater enriches its mascara offer with a new product from its EcoTribeTM range: the ” Activated Mascara “. This is the first refillable antimicrobial mascara that prevents the transmission of microbes in an imme-diate, stable and permanent way.

In addition to meeting consumers’ expectations in terms of make-up results, this mascara has unique environmental benefits:

  • Anti-microbial activation thanks to the all-mineral technology
  • 30% polymer reduction from the first refill
  • Use of recycled and bio-based material
  • 100% recyclable and reusable
  • Entirely manufactured in France

The result of a strategic partnership with Pylote and Simp, this innovation aims to reinforce our legitimacy with our customers by providing them with concrete solutions in terms of safety, hygiene and eco-design.

For more information, see this press release or visit our online EcoTribeTM  platform.