Kanzan special papers

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Kanzan Spezialpapiere GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 1990
Seat Düren
management Matthias Simon
Number of employees 315
sales 100 million euros
Branch Paper maker
Website www.kanzan.de

The KANZAN specialty papers GmbH is a paper manufacturer for thermal papers , inkjet papers and other special papers in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia . With 315 employees, the company produces around 60,000 tons of paper per year and has an annual turnover of around 100 million euros. The company supplies the processing industry such as printing companies , small roll suppliers and laminate manufacturers for self-adhesive labels throughout Europe. They use it to produce self-adhesive labels, admission tickets, tickets, lottery receipts, parking tickets, account statements or receipts of any kind.

The company has a paper machine (Hybrid Former) with a working width of 3.20 m and two coating machines with working widths of 1.60 m and 3.20 m. There are also rewinders and winder. The steam and electricity required for paper production are generated by a pulverized lignite power plant located on the factory premises. It works on the principle of combined heat and power and achieves a degree of utilization of over 90%. The lignite extracted and refined to dust in the region around Düren is used as fuel .

Company history

KANZAN 2010

In September 1990, the company was founded as a joint venture between the Japanese paper manufacturer Kanzaki Paper (now Ōji Seishi Paper) and the German Zanders Feinpapiere AG . The Japanese, global trading company Marubeni took part as a third partner . In October 1991 production started in the south of the Düren city area, when Zanders brought his Neumühl plant into the joint venture and transferred it to KANZAN. Since the Zanders Feinpapiere AG parted ways in 2000, the Oji Paper Group, the largest Japanese paper manufacturer, has been a major shareholder of KANZAN with almost 95 percent.

History of the Neumühl plant

Today's Neumühl is the oldest paper mill in Düren and establishes the long tradition of paper production at this location. The foundation stone for the associated economic and industrial development of Düren was laid by the businessman Rütger von Scheven, who was born near Elberfeld in 1661 . On his sales trips for linen, cloth and haberdashery he also came through the Duchy of Jülich and recognized the advantages of the area for paper production in the immediate vicinity of the Rur. After van Scheven acquired citizenship rights in Düren in 1694, he was granted the concession on July 9, 1710 to build a paper mill on the Düren pond . Shortly after the start of production, the Schevensmühle named after him had 50 employees. Rütger van Scheven's coat of arms in Cologne with its initials "RVS" as a watermark established itself as a mark of origin and a seal of quality. This was officially confirmed on March 18, 1727 by the Düren magistrate, who stated that "Rütger von Scheven produced a paper of the same quality as none of the other."

Watermark Rütger van Scheven

After the founder's death in 1740, his son Rütger Lucas von Scheven took over the mill, who transferred the paper mill to his sister Magdalena in 1773, as he had no heirs. She married Johann Paul Schoeller, who was born in Gemünd in the Eifel and came to Düren in 1718, which marked the beginning of the paper tradition of the Schoeller family . The Neumühl plant remained in the possession of various members and branches of the Schoellers until 1981.

From the Schevensmühle to the Neumühl

In the middle of the 19th century, Benno Schoeller (1828–1908), owner of the Eisenreckhammerwerk Schoellershammer , and his brother Julius (1820–1876) jointly acquired the Schevensmühle and built a new factory in 1862 with the most modern technology at the time: turbines replaced the old water wheels and it the first paper machine could be installed. From then on this work was called Neumühl . The Schoellershammer and the Neumühl belonged together for over 50 years and operated together under the name Heinrich August Schoeller Söhne .

The work in the 20th century

Neumühl paper mill in 1919

In 1914, the plants were separated again when Hugo Albert Schoeller took over Neumühl and continued to produce under his name. The company also held its own in the following period, which was characterized by difficult political and economic circumstances: First World War , Versailles Treaty , reparation payments , hyperinflation , the Great Depression and finally the National Socialist Third Reich. Production only had to be stopped completely at the end of the Second World War , when the factory was hit by an Allied air raid on April 21, 1944 and the Neumühl buildings were repeatedly on the main battle line in February 1945, when American units approached the Düren area lay. According to contemporary witnesses, the plant was occupied seven times by German and Allied troops, alternating between them and also suffered severe damage.

Neumühl plant in 1946

One year before the currency reform in June 1947, the devastating damage caused by the war was so far removed that the first fine paper machine (PM 1) could be put back into operation. By the mid-1950s, production increased again to the pre-war level. The company benefited from the economic boom in the young Federal Republic and the resumption of the production of photo paper . After the companies Hugo Albert Schoeller and Felix Schoeller jr. from Burg Gretesch ( Osnabrück ) merged, a comprehensive investment program was started so that in 1970 a new and modern paper machine could be put into operation in the Neumühl plant. Twelve years later, when Zanders Feinpapiere AG took over the plant in 1982, the long tradition as a family company ended. After that, it mainly supplied base papers that were coated in the Reflex and Gohrsmühle plants. When Zanders was planning to build a new large paper machine in Bergisch Gladbach in 1989 , a new entrepreneurial concept was sought for Neumühl, which led to the founding of KANZAN in September 1990.

Literature and Sources

  • Josef Geuenich: History of the paper industry in the Düren-Jülich economic area, Ed. Düren-Jülich paper industry, 1959, page 490
  • Hugo Albert Schoeller: My paper you are a wonderful thing RVS 1710 - 1960. Anniversary publication 250 years, Düren 1960

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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '32.1 "  N , 6 ° 29' 17.4"  E