“The environment is the most important challenge for us,” Serge Brigot, Graindorge

Graindorge is a company specialising in the surface treatment of high quality plastic products, specializing in the electroplating of plastic parts. The company is well renown in Europe for the quality of its treatments of plastics and metals, with different finishes such as chrome, white bronze, gun-metal, gold, matte or high gloss for the perfumes and cosmetics industry. Serge Brigot, Graindorge’s CEO, comments for Premium Beauty News the main issues of the year 2008 for its company.

Premium Beauty News - What is the outcome of the year 2008 so far? What is your vision of the next six months?

Serge Brigot - The first seventh months of the year 2008 showed a progression of 15% compared to the same period of 2007. We can reasonably expect a progression for the entire year, but we remain careful, as some of our customers seem to face a slowdown of the activity.

Premium Beauty News - What about innovation in the health and beauty industry? What are the new products you are working on?

Serge Brigot - For a subcontractor, new products are closely links to new launches from our customers. From our point of view, we did not observe groundbreaking innovation among the novelties; however, it is likely that our customers do not share this vision.

Premium Beauty News - Environment and sustainable development are the new buzzwords in the industry. How do you address this challenge?

Serge Brigot - That’s currently the most important challenge to us. We are working hard and investing a lot on this issue, with the aim to propose a new finish (a white one) by the end of the year, which will require less pollutant products. I will have the opportunity to present this new development on the 3rd of February 2009 during the PCD Congress in Paris.

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