Cascades (company)

The Cascades is an original Canadian manufacturer of paper products of various kinds, the company part Cascades Europe was merged in 2008 with the company Reno de Medici. The new distribution name is CAREO.

Parent company

The Cascades Inc. was founded in 1964 and has developed into a leading company in the production, processing and sales of various products made ​​of paper on the North American market. The company was a pioneer in the recycling of waste paper.

Overall, the company has 140 manufacturing sites in North America and Europe. It employs about 15,600 workers. The Headquarters is Kingsey Falls in the province of Quebec.

Europe and merger with Reno de Medici

In four carton plants in France ( Cascades La Rochette and Cascades Blendecques ), Germany ( Cascades Arnsberg ) and Sweden ( Cascades Djupafors ) and cutting centers and sales warehouses in the UK, Italy and France are a total of 1290 employees. In 1989, another board mill was acquired ( Cascades Duffel ) in Belgium. The facility was closed in 1997, however, and converted the site in 2002 in a sales office. Early 2012 Cascades Duffel NV was finally liquidated.

Previously was the subsidiary Cascades SA for the European market jurisdiction located in La Rochette in Savoie. Since March 2008, Cascades Europe is fused with the company Reno de Medici. The headquarters of the new corporation is Milan. Cascades brought to the merger a recycling box locations Arnsberg and Blendecques and the cutting center in Wednesbury and thus held in the merger 30% of Reno de Medici 70%. The joint venture is the second largest supplier of recycled cardboard in Europe. The Produktionskapazizät is 1.3 million tons per annum. With a share of 57.6 % of the ordinary shares now Cascades is for as of June 2013, the largest shareholder of Reno de Medici.

Germany

In Germany, the company took over the factory in Arnsberg of the group of companies Stora in 1997 and this brought into the merger with Reno De Medici in 2008. There produce about 300 employees in 230,000 tons of waste paper folding boxboard. This makes it one of the largest industrial employer in this city.

The company relies on a tradition that began in 1901 with the founding of the Ruhr Werke AG. In 1903, the first in 1906 and a second board machine was put into operation. In 1918 the work of the company brushwood and 1928 was taken from the field mill AG. In 1955, in addition to the existing hydroelectric plant, a coal high pressure power plant was built in 1957 and taken a third board machine in operation. In 1989, the board machine 1 and the groundwood mill was shut down. In 1990, finally in 2008 the work went into the possession of the company Stora, in 1997 in the possession of the company Cascades and Reno De Medici.