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Kabel Premium Pulp & Paper GmbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1896
Seat	Hagen
Number of employees	around 560
Branch	paper
Website	www.kabelpaper.de

The Kabel paper factory , founded in the Kabel district of Hagen in 1896 , produces lightweight, graphically coated printing papers and wood fibers. The plant has been operating under the name Kabel Premium Pulp & Paper GmbH since 2016 . The company employs around 560 people.

The factory premises of Kabel Premium Pulp & Paper

history

1896: Founding of the paper factory in Hagen-Kabel
1959: Takeover of the plant by Feldmühle AG
In 1990 the Finnish Stora Enso Group took over the plant. There were significant job cuts under Stora-Enso. (2007: 1150 employees; 2016: 540 employees).
2016: Kabel is again an independent medium-sized company: Kabel Premium Pulp & Paper GmbH

Products

Kabel Premium produces high-quality coated magazine and catalog papers as rolls and sheets on two paper machines. At the Kabel location, in addition to the two paper machines, the company operates the largest format equipment and the largest wood grinding shop in Europe, a steam / electricity power plant as well as a biomass power plant and its own sewage treatment plant. The factory also produces high-volume papers and papers for digital printing. The annual production capacity is 450,000 tons of high quality single and double coated, wood containing graphic papers, which are used for both offset and gravure printing.

Kabel Premium Pulp & Paper - view from Schwerter Strasse

Kabel Premium Pulp & Paper GmbH produces the following product lines:

Rotogravure / gravure printing: NeoPress G, TerraPress G and ArtiPress G

Heatset web offset: TerraPress O and ArtiPress O

Sheet-fed offset: TerraPrint and TerraPrint Premium were specially developed for sheet-fed printing machines

Production machines

Production line 4: Production line 4 has a working width of 7.20 m and a capacity of 190,000 t / a. It specializes in the production of the highest quality gravure printing. At a speed of up to 1,330 m / min, weights per unit area of 39 to 90 g / m² can be produced.

Production line 5: Production line 5 has a working width of 7.20 m and a capacity of 260,000 t / a. It specializes in the production of premium quality offset papers (single and double coating). The working speed is up to 1,350 m / min with weights from 57 to 115 g / m².

Format department: Kabel Premium operates one of the largest format departments in Europe with a capacity of 120,000 t / a. The format services are also offered to third parties.

Investments

The company has been operating a combined steam and electricity power plant at the Kabel location since 2014, which produces the steam required for drying paper. Until the 19 million euro plant was commissioned, the nearby Hagen-Kabel cogeneration plant was used for steam production.

market

Kabel Premium's main geographic markets include countries

Germany (main market)
France
Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
Southern Europe
Great Britain
Eastern Europe
Switzerland Austria

The company has other customers overseas and in the Middle East .

logistics

The Kabel plant is centrally located in Europe and in close proximity to the largest paper converters and printing plants, which results in low transport costs. The paper produced is transported to the customer via the company's own rail connection and truck. The in-house logistics process more than 17,000 orders from around 500 customers each year.

Kabel Naturstiftung

According to Kabel Premium, environmental protection is an important concern. With the establishment of the Kabel-Naturstiftung the company wants to underline this claim. Together with the foundation, Kabel Premium offers its customers guaranteed CO ₂ -neutral paper that is sold under the Kabel ZERO brand .

Web links

Company website , accessed October 20, 2017
Made in Hagen: The paper mill in Kabel . In: stadtmag.de . Stadtmagazin Hagen, article in issue 39 (12/2016), p. 18, accessed on October 20, 2017
Early documents and newspaper articles on the Kabel paper factory in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Koch, Jens Stubbe: Paper factory: Stora workforce is happy about new owners in Hagen. Infobox: Workforce in the paper mill has been more than halved since 2007 . In: wp.de. Westfalenpost, June 2, 2016, accessed on October 20, 2017 : “The paper mill has undergone significant job cuts. In 2007 there were 1150 employees, today there are 540. "
↑ Hubertus Heuel: Stora Enso full steam ahead. In: derwesten.de. June 27, 2014, accessed October 20, 2017 .
↑ The paper manufacturer Stora Enso plans to build a new steam-electricity power plant this year. In: 107.7radiohagen.de. Local radio Radio Hagen, May 23, 2013, accessed on October 20, 2017 .

[1] Michael Koch, Jens Stubbe: Paper factory: Stora workforce is happy about new owners in Hagen. Infobox: Workforce in the paper mill has been more than halved since 2007 . In: wp.de. Westfalenpost, June 2, 2016, accessed on October 20, 2017 : “The paper mill has undergone significant job cuts. In 2007 there were 1150 employees, today there are 540. "

[2] Hubertus Heuel: Stora Enso full steam ahead. In: derwesten.de. June 27, 2014, accessed October 20, 2017 .

[3] The paper manufacturer Stora Enso plans to build a new steam-electricity power plant this year. In: 107.7radiohagen.de. Local radio Radio Hagen, May 23, 2013, accessed on October 20, 2017 .