April 01, Macon to Chalon

In the morning, I visited the camping site of Dominque. Very pleasant place and we can see Mt Blanc.
Then we started for Chalon, The President & other hosts welcomed us at the restaurant.
One of the most important visit of the program. The GSE Team visited one of the world's largest glass bottle manufacturing plant. Saint Gobain (Verselia), a very large plant making 3 Million bottles per day with Total 314 employees. the actual employees involved in manufacturing are only ONLY 31 persons per shift. A wonderful experience, the automation of the plant was just awesome. One can imagine an automation action and it was present in the plant. Everything was automated, from raw materials (1200 tons per day), boiling of glass, quality test(so many type of tests), arranging the bottles on pallates, automatic forklifts, arrangement of bottles in godown, etc etc.
The evening meeting was good and about 23 members attended.