Since 2019, our raison d'être has been to facilitate the transition to sustainable packaging, with a view to preserving the planet's resources and reducing waste - in a word, to make reuse the alternative to single-use packaging.

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Uzaje

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"Uzaje was born of a conviction: reuse must become a reality in our daily lives and in economic models. Reuse brings many benefits: waste reduction, better resource management, protection of our health and the environment, while generating growth and new jobs; it's an important component of healthier, more sustainable food for all.

Consumers have high expectations and citizens are becoming more aware of the need to change the way we use packaging, to move from single-use to a circular economy. With the AGEC and EGALIM laws and the European Single-Use Plastics Directive, targets for accelerating the introduction of packaging reuse have been clearly defined. Territories are mobilizing and committing themselves to waste reduction and more sustainable food models.

Uzaje has become the benchmark in reuse for the food service and food industry. We help our customers to implement alternatives to disposable packaging, thanks to the industrial infrastructure needed to deploy reuse. Our industrial cleaning centers can handle a wide variety of containers with high standards of hygiene and quality. Thanks to our R&D (Research and Development) efforts, we make reuse environmentally and economically efficient, while creating jobs that cannot be relocated.

Uzaje's challenge is to facilitate the re-use experience for consumers and the transition to these new industrial schemes for companies. Committed to the values of the Social and Solidarity Economy, we show that it is possible to place environmental impact at the heart of business and society. 

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Emmanuel Auberger,
President and Founder 

Our customers

Our industrial tools enable us to pool the cleaning of players from different sectors.
Since Uzaje's creation in 2019, we have collaborated with over 150 players in the food industry.

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National deployment

Our locations

2 cleaning center

  • November 2020 : Neuilly-sur-Marne (93) Paris Region
  • November 2021 : Avignon (84) Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
  • Spring 2024: Strasbourg (67) Bas-Rhin

Nationwide coverage to reach 90% of the population within 200 km of the centers

  • 5 other centers in the pipeline: Lille, Nantes, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Lyon 

Objectives

  • 300 million units washed per year
  • 28,000 tonnes of waste avoided (½ plastic, ½ glass) 
  • 200 local industrial jobs

The development of Uzaje

Fund raising

11 million raised in November 2023

What are the objectives?

  • Meeting our customers' expectations and implementing the circular economy loop of packaging reuse
  • Pursuing our research and development efforts
  • Strengthen our sales teams to increase sales to 40 million euros and wash over 300 million packs within 5 years.
  • Strengthen our industrial teams to continue to cover the whole of France with economically and environmentally efficient wash centers
  • Ensure the creation of more than 200 non-relocatable industrial jobs by 2025, some of which will be linked to professional integration.

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Invest & +
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"By aligning economic, environmental, social and health dimensions, the approach deployed by Uzaje will eliminate the negative impacts of single-use food packaging from our daily lives by making reuse possible on an industrial scale. The project is backed by a solid team and a fast-growing market.
Vincent Fauvet
President

About Investir & +

Investir&+ is a collective of entrepreneurs who share the conviction that business is a powerful tool for resolving certain social, environmental and societal issues in an effective and sustainable way.

Investir&+'s mission is to provide financial and strategic support to companies whose primary aim is to resolve one of these issues, with the potential for significant transformation to match the challenges they address. 

Investir&+ has supported 27 projects, including HelloAsso, Yuka, Simplon and Murfy, Make.orgWeFight and Recyclivre.

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Banque des Territoires
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"Uzaje is an SSE structure offering an innovative service to meet the regulatory obligations imposed on local authorities and private players alike. This approach is fully in line with our vocation to support the creation of the infrastructures needed for our country's ecological transition, and to work towards more sustainable territories".
Linda Reboux
Impact investment manager

About Banque des Territoires

Created in 2018, Banque des Territoires is one of the five business lines of Caisse des Dépôts. It brings together in a single structure internal expertise aimed at territories. A single customer gateway, it offers tailored advisory and financing solutions in loans and investments to meet the needs of local authorities, social housing organizations, local public companies and the legal professions. It is aimed at all regions, from rural areas to metropolises, with the ambition of combating social inequalities and territorial divides.

For more attractive, inclusive, sustainable and connected regions.

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France Active
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"Our movement of committed entrepreneurs has supported Uzaje since its industrial launch. We continue to support the success of this ambitious player in the ecological and social transition of the regions, and in particular the creation of jobs in the emerging trades of the circular economy."
Blandine Vulin
Solidarity Investment Officer

About France Active - Le Mouvement des Entrepreneurs Engagés

For over 30 years, France Active has been promoting the vision of a transformative economy that creates links. An economy that gives a place to everyone, offering those who want it the power to undertake. An economy that puts its performance at the service of its social and ecological impact. An economy at the height of human endeavor, which thinks big thanks to the power of the collective that drives it. And above all, an economy you can count on, with 30,0000 entrepreneurs supported, 58,000 jobs created and 410 million euros mobilized for 2020 alone.

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"By aligning economic, environmental, social and health dimensions, the approach deployed by Uzaje will eliminate the negative impacts of single-use food packaging from our daily lives by making reuse possible on an industrial scale. The project is backed by a solid team and a fast-growing market.
Vincent Fauvet
President

About Investir & +

Investir&+ is a collective of entrepreneurs who share the conviction that business is a powerful tool for resolving certain social, environmental and societal issues in an effective and sustainable way.

Investir&+'s mission is to provide financial and strategic support to companies whose primary aim is to resolve one of these issues, with the potential for significant transformation to match the challenges they address. 

Investir&+ has supported 27 projects, including HelloAsso, Yuka, Simplon and Murfy, Make.orgWeFight and Recyclivre.

Find out more about Investir&+
logo-bdt-mobile
"Uzaje is an SSE structure offering an innovative service to meet the regulatory obligations imposed on local authorities and private players alike. This approach is fully in line with our vocation to support the creation of the infrastructures needed for our country's ecological transition, and to work towards more sustainable territories".
Linda Reboux
Impact investment manager

About Banque des Territoires

Created in 2018, Banque des Territoires is one of the five business lines of Caisse des Dépôts. It brings together in a single structure internal expertise aimed at territories. A single customer gateway, it offers tailored advisory and financing solutions in loans and investments to meet the needs of local authorities, social housing organizations, local public companies and the legal professions. It is aimed at all regions, from rural areas to metropolises, with the ambition of combating social inequalities and territorial divides.

For more attractive, inclusive, sustainable and connected regions.

Find out more about Banque des Territoires
France active logo_0
"Our movement of committed entrepreneurs has supported Uzaje since its industrial launch. We continue to support the success of this ambitious player in the ecological and social transition of the regions, and in particular the creation of jobs in the emerging trades of the circular economy."
Blandine Vulin
Solidarity Investment Officer

About France Active - Le Mouvement des Entrepreneurs Engagés

For over 30 years, France Active has been promoting the vision of a transformative economy that creates links. An economy that gives a place to everyone, offering those who want it the power to undertake. An economy that puts its performance at the service of its social and ecological impact. An economy at the height of human endeavor, which thinks big thanks to the power of the collective that drives it. And above all, an economy you can count on, with 30,0000 entrepreneurs supported, 58,000 jobs created and 410 million euros mobilized for 2020 alone.

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