Büttenpapierfabrik Gmund

Büttenpapierfabrik Gmund GmbH & Co. KG is a paper manufacturer headquartered in Gmund am Tegernsee and currently employs more than 100 employees.

She is active in the manufacture of paper in the fields of fine paper, uncoated paper and finished paper products. With an export rate of 75% customers are supplied in approximately 80 countries.

History

Already under the direction of company founder Johann Nepomuk Haas handmade papers were produced. The Kohler family who run the company since 1995 alone, has continued this approach and the products adapted to the present needs.

Johann Nepomuk Haas founded in 1829, the paper mill in Mangfalltal. He had the license to collect rags that were needed in order to produce paper may. ( By 1850, paper was manufactured in Europe exclusively from rags ). 1854, the factory was taken over by Gregor Fichtner and expanded to approximately 40 employees. The production was dedicated under his direction on handmade fine papers. During this time Gmund was purveyor to the Bavarian royal court to Munich. After the great fire in 1880 Gregor Fichtner built the factory again and installed in 1886, the first paper machine. Today it is still in full use and thus one of the oldest still -running machines in Europe. In 1895 the factory went into the possession of Romuald Brunner.

The Munich plasterer Georg Stahl, brother of the last owner, acquired the "machine paper mill and paper mill hand G. Fichtner successor " in 1903 as part of a bankruptcy estate. In order to lead them back to profitability, he teamed up with the experienced in the paper industry merchants Ludwig Kohler and Carl pan mountain. Together they founded in 1904 the "Machine and Büttenpapierfabrik Gmund GmbH", directed by Kohler and pan mountain as managing directors. After the death of the steel and the severance of his heirs Kohler and pan Berg led the company since 1918 continue together as a general commercial company. The post Kohlers in 1921 an industrial accident succumbed, took over three years later his cousin of the same name. During the Second World War papers for gas mask filters, obscurations and maps were produced in Gmund am Tegernsee. The death of company co-founder Carl pan mountain in 1964 led a generation to Carl pan mountain jun. and Ludwig Maximilian Kohler one who entered as a shareholder in the company the following year. The fine paper segment was further expanded, and in 1984 a second paper machine was regarding the offer and the format options installed. Ludwig Kohler sen. died 1984. since 1995, the Kohler family, the company is alone. The management of the paper mill responsible for the death of Ludwig Maximilian Kohler in 2004, his son Florian Kohler.

Products

Are produced 25 different collections with more than 100,000 different product variations. In addition, special designs are produced, for example, since 2012 the golden envelopes the Oscar ceremony in which put the cards with the name of the winner.

Conservation

Since July 2006, Gmund FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified (No. GFA - COC - 001 370 ). For the production of FSC-certified papers FSC - certified material and material is used from certified wood. Non FSC - certified materials are controlled in accordance with the FSC standard for controlled wood (FSC -STD -40 -005).

Awards

In 2007 the company was awarded the Environmental Award Bavaria.