L’Oreal To Expand Florence Kentucky Facility

The plant currently employs more than 200 full-time workers who produce 165 million units of Garnier Fructis, L’Oréal Paris and Soft Sheen-Carson shampoo, conditioner, and styling products each year.

The company estimates that the 110,000 square foot plant expansion will create more than 200 new jobs over the next three years.

“L’Oréal’s business is growing globally and the expansion will enable us to meet increased consumer demand for the popular hair care brands we are producing in Kentucky,” said Eric Wolff, plant manager. “The Florence plant is a center of manufacturing excellence for the L’Oréal Group and the decision to expand US production here will result in significant economic benefit for Kentuckians.”

Last year the Florence plant announced an innovative “Wall to Wall” component supply program which located its shampoo component supplier, Alpla, in the same factory where the Garnier Fructis shampoos and conditioners are produced.The initiative reduced environmental impacts including freight, CO₂ emissions, waste and costs.

The plant has also implemented a vessel cleaning optimization program, called OptiCIP, which has reduced the amount of water used for vessel washing per unit of finished product by 43%. This program alone equates to an overall 18% reduction in total water consumption since 2005.

Since 2005, the Florence manufacturing plant has made significant improvements in its environmental performance and made the following reductions for 2011:

•-2.4% reduction in GHGs – total tons of CO2, scope 1 & 2 (from 2005-2011)

•-15.1% reduction of tons of transportable waste per finished product (from 2005-2011)

•-32.1 % reduction in liters of water consumption per finished product (from 2005-2011)

•-15.5% reduction in kilowatt-hours of energy consumption per finished product (from 2005-2011)


Kentucky Business Investment (KBI) has committed to a $5 million tax incentive through the Kentucky Economic Finance Development Authority (KEDFA) and another $800,000 tax incentive through the Kentucky Enterprise Initiative Ace (KEIA) in support of the plant expansion.