Gmund paper mill

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Gmund paper

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1829
Seat Gmund am Tegernsee , Germany
management Florian Kohler
Number of employees about 130
Branch Papermaking
Website http://www.gmund.com/

Company building

Gmund Paper is a paper manufacturer with headquarters in Gmund am Tegernsee and employs around 130 people.

The paper mill is known for the production of design paper, natural paper and finished paper products. With an export quota of 75%, customers are supplied in around 80 countries.

Gmund Paper became known around the world in 2011 for the gold-refined paper from which the envelopes and winner cards for the Academy Awards are made.

history

19th century

The beginning of paper production in Mangfalltal goes back to the year 1829, when the Swabian papermaker Johann Nepomuk Haas bought the partly burnt down copper, rolling and hammer mill of the court coppersmith Joseph Schaller and set up a paper mill there. Haas had to acquire a license to collect rags - the so-called rags - which were needed as raw material for paper manufacture until the middle of the 19th century. After his death in 1854, the factory was taken over by a family friend, the 26-year-old factory manager Gregor Fichtner , and gradually expanded from 25 to around 60 employees in the following decades. Under Fichtner, the company specialized in the production of hand-made fine paper and advanced to become the purveyor to the Bavarian royal court in Munich. In 1860 a major fire destroyed several factory buildings, which were rebuilt the following year. The construction of an innovative iron works bridge over the Mangfall in 1868 is another milestone in the company's history.

First paper machine of the handmade paper factory and in operation since 1886

With the installation of the first paper machine in 1886, Fichtner mechanized the production process. The large-scale machine from the Berlin-based manufacturer Siegel is still in full use today, making it the oldest commercially used paper machine in Europe . In 1895 Fichtner retired from business life and sold the factory to Romuald Brunner, a citizen of Gmunden. In his era, sales, production and the number of workers decreased significantly.

20th century

After Brunner's death in 1903, the machine paper factory and hand paper mill G. Fichtner's successor proved to be over-indebted, whereupon the Munich plasterer Georg Stahl, brother-in-law of the last owner, acquired it as part of estate bankruptcy proceedings. In order to lead the company back into profitability, he teamed up with the merchants Ludwig Alois Kohler (1874–1921) and Carl Pfannenberg. Both brought valuable experience from which the factory benefited: Kohler had worked at the Neumühle paper mill near Miesbach, Pfannenberg at the Carl Hartmann paper wholesaler in Leipzig and the Moufang paper mill in Oberschmitten.

Together they founded the Gmund machine and handmade paper factory in 1904 , managed by Pfannenberg and Kohler as managing directors. With the production of handmade paper and felt-grained photo, passepartout and cover cardboard, they increased the sales of the paper mill and employed 80 people before the outbreak of the First World War . After Stahl's death and the settlement of his heirs, Kohler and Pfannenberg continued to run the company together as a general partnership from 1918. Kohler's post, who died in a tragic industrial accident in 1921, was initially taken over by his mother Christine and, after her death three years later, in 1924, by his nephew Ludwig Wilhelm Kohler.

In the interwar period, the company concentrated on the production of white and colored paper and cardboard with a wide variety of surfaces. The construction of a large warehouse ensured flexible adaptation to customer requirements. During the Second World War , papers were produced for gas mask filters, blackouts and maps. During this time, the operation was maintained by the cooperation of French forced laborers and women, as Ludwig Wilhelm Kohler and his son were at the front.

post war period

Paper warehouse of the handmade paper factory

In 1952, when raw materials were slowly becoming available again, the younger son Ludwig Maximilian Kohler (1924–2004) took over from his father. The death of company co-founder Carl Pfannenberg in 1963 led to a generation change to Carl Pfannenberg junior. and Ludwig Maximilian Kohler, who joined the company as partners the following year. The fine paper segment was further expanded, and in 1979/80 the owners installed a second paper machine to expand the range and format options.

In 1984 Ludwig Wilhelm Kohler died and his grandson Florian Kohler joined the company. In 1992 the factory building was extensively renovated and expanded. In 1994 Florian Kohler received support from his brother Korbinian in managing the company. Since the departure of Carl Pfannenberg jun. In 1995 the Kohler family ran the company alone. Korbinian left the company in 2004 and since the death of Ludwig Maximilian Kohler in the same year, Florian Kohler has been the sole owner and managing director of the company.

Products

On two paper machines, Gmund Paper produces around 6000 tons of wood- and acid-free, mostly colored design papers with a paper weight ( grammage ) of 80 to 500 g / m² per year . Around 26 different collections with over 100,000 different product variations are produced.

environmental Protection

The Gmund paper mill has been FSC ( Forest Stewardship Council ) certified since July 2006 (No. GFA - COC - 001370). FSC-certified material and material made from controlled wood are used for the production of FSC-certified paper. All non-FSC-certified materials are controlled according to the FSC standard for controlled wood (FSC-STD-40-005).

Waste water avoidance

Due to the location of the handmade paper mill in Mangfalltal , a landscape protection area, which is also a main catchment area for the drinking water supply of the city of Munich, a circulating water and wastewater treatment plant was developed and installed from the year 2000 to avoid wastewater and reuse. The project, with a duration of just under 4 years and project costs of around 1.2 million euros, was carried out together with the German Federal Environment Foundation , scientifically supported and fully documented. The specific amount of wastewater was reduced by 52 percent through a process combination of pressure disc filter and ozone treatment of the circulating and wastewater.

The pressure disk filtration removes the solids in the water, while the ozone treatment almost discolors the dyes in the circulating water, breaks down contaminants and at the same time disinfects the water . The decolorization is necessary because in the production of colored fine paper, in contrast to the production of cardboard or recycled paper , the reused water may only contain the smallest amounts of dye in order to avoid color deviations in the end product.

The specific amount of waste water, measured in liters per kilogram of paper produced, was reduced from an average of 29 l / kg to 13.9 l / kg. The annual paper production of the handmade paper mill at the end of the project was around 4400 tons.

Renewable Energies

The handmade paper mill generates 75 percent of the electricity and energy it needs through a combined heat and power plant, its own hydropower plant with three turbines, which is fed with water from the Mangfall , and a photovoltaic system.

Awards

literature

  • Maschinen- und Bütten-Papierfabrik Gmund (ed.): 150 years of the paper factory in Gmund 1829-1979. 75 years of the Gmund machine and handmade paper factory 1904-1979. OJ [1979].
  • Florian Kohler and Sabine Vöhringer : The history of the Gmund paper mill. Paper culture since 1829. Munich 2004.

Web links

Commons : Büttenpapierfabrik Gmund  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susan King: Oscars: The envelope gets a new design. Los Angeles Times, February 16, 2011, accessed May 18, 2016 . Daniela Otto: And the Oscar comes from… (No longer available online.) Local voice UG, February 27, 2014, archived from the original on May 19, 2016 ; accessed on May 18, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tegernseerstimme.de
  2. ^ Josef Obermayr: The parish of Gmund am Tegernsee and the Reiffenstuehl. A contribution to the history of names and places in Upper Bavaria. Freising 1868, pp. 242-243.
  3. ↑ Florian Kohler and Sabine Vöhringer : The history of the Gmund paper factory. Paper culture since 1829. Munich 2004, pp. 27–38.
  4. ↑ Florian Kohler and Sabine Vöhringer: The history of the Gmund paper factory. Paper culture since 1829. Munich 2004, p. 38.
  5. ↑ Auction record of the notary Ludwig Bosner in Tegernsee of December 21, 1903.
  6. ^ Machine and Bütten-Papierfabrik Gmund (ed.): 150 years of the paper factory in Gmund 1829-1979. 75 years of the Gmund machine and handmade paper factory 1904-1979. n.d. [1979]; Florian Kohler and Sabine Vöhringer: The history of the Gmund paper mill. Paper culture since 1829. Munich 2004, pp. 41–42.
  7. ^ Association contract Kohler & Pfannenberg of May 7, 1918.
  8. ^ Excerpts from the commercial register of the Munich Local Court for the Tegernsee Local Court District, Companies Register Vol. 1, No. 16, dated June 28, 1922 and November 10, 1933.
  9. ↑ Cornelia Knust: Gmund Paper - Die Kulturbeauftragten. IHK for Munich and Upper Bavaria, 2011, accessed on May 18, 2016 .
  10. ^ A b c Cornelia Knust: Büttenpapierfabrik Gmund - upswing in the valley. IHK for Munich and Upper Bavaria, 2014, accessed on May 18, 2016 .
  11. ^ Extract from the commercial register of the local court in Miesbach, Section A, Vol. 2, No. 327, dated February 20, 1967.
  12. ↑ Florian Kohler and Sabine Vöhringer: The history of the Gmund paper factory. Paper culture since 1829. Munich 2004, pp. 84–95.
  13. ^ Büttenpapierfabrik Gmund GmbH & Co. KG. Association for Responsible Forest Management, accessed on May 19, 2016 .
  14. ↑ a b Ullrich Offermanns, Hans-Jürgen Öller, Svenja Bierbaum: Demonstration and testing of a process for reducing the amount of wastewater through integrated partial flow treatment with ozone technology in a paper mill that produces high-quality paper and cardboard types. Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, March 2004, accessed on May 19, 2016 .
  15. ↑ Innovative wastewater treatment. Bavarian State Office for the Environment, accessed on May 19, 2016 (PDF, 163 KB).
  16. ↑ Water - use intelligently - protect sustainably. Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, March 2008, p. 31 , accessed on May 19, 2016 . Gmund honored for services to the environment. (No longer available online.) Curt Haefner-Verlag GmbH, December 1, 2005, archived from the original on May 19, 2016 ; Retrieved May 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.papierundtechnik.de
  17. ↑ Klaus-Maria Mehr: Büttenpapierfabrik wins sustainability award. Münchener Zeitungs-Verlag GmbH & Co.KG, November 13, 2015, accessed on May 19, 2016 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 14.8 "  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 30.8"  E