Pavatex
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1936 |
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Freiburg im Üechtland FR, Switzerland
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| Number of employees | 250 (2013) |
| sales | EUR 79.7 million (2010) |
| Branch | Building materials |
| Website | www.pavatex.com |
The Pavatex Group, headed by Pavatex Holding AG, is a Swiss company that produces and sells wood fiber insulation boards for the building envelope . Pavatex Holding AG has its headquarters in Cham ZG . The operational headquarters of Pavatex SA is in Freiburg . The group operates two production plants: Cham and Golbey , there are also sales companies in Germany, France, Great Britain and holdings in companies in Italy and Japan. In 2010 the company achieved sales of 79.7 million euros.
According to the western Swiss business magazine Bilan, Pavatex is the market leader in the field of soft wood fiber insulation materials . According to the company, Pavatex has a market share of 75 percent in Switzerland. The company is also the market leader for soft wood fiber insulation materials for the building envelope in Germany (market share approx. 35%), Austria (market share approx. 40%), Italy (market share approx. 40%) as well as in France and the Benelux countries.
Company history
In Cham in the canton of Zug , the Cham paper mill , today's industrial holding Cham , began producing hardboard . The plates were marketed under the brand name PAVATEX ; Pava stood for "paper packaging". This brand name has achieved a high level of awareness and is still a common name for hardboard and other fibreboard in Switzerland today . Pavatex SA was founded in Cham in 1936. In 1946 a second production plant was added in Cham, in 1949 the soft fiber board plant in Freiburg (CH) , and in 1964 a third plant in Cham. Over time, the main focus of production shifted: in 2001 the production of soft fiber boards was also started in Cham and since 2005 production has been concentrated exclusively on soft fiber boards. The Cham location was expanded to include a new, ultra-modern production facility in mid-2011. At the same time, the company also added adhesive components to its product portfolio. At the end of March 2012, the foundation stone was laid for a new PAVATEX plant in Golbey (France). The investment volume for this is around 60 million euros, the targeted annual production of the first production line in the Golbey plant is 50,000 tons. In 2010, PAVATEX produced approx. 29,000 tons in the Freiburg plant and approx. 39,500 tons in the Cham plant. In the following years production was relocated, in 2015 Pavatex stopped production at the Freiburg plant and 47 employees were laid off. In 2016 Pavatex sold the 80,000 m² company premises in Freiburg to a real estate company and announced that they would move to a new location in the area.
After the company was first sold by the Cham paper mill to Hiag Holding AG , it is now 31% owned by Chemolio Holding AG , 38% by CEO Martin Brettenthaler and 26% by BeCapital. Further shares are held by Norske Skog, the Institut Lorrain des Participations, the Lorrain des Matériaux fund and senior management. In 1992 Pavatex expanded to Germany and founded Pavatex GmbH in Leutkirch im Allgäu , in 2000 PAVATEX Benelux BV was founded as a sales organization for the Benelux countries and in 2005 Pavatex France SARL was established in France. On July 1, 2011, PAVATEX founded PAVATEX Japan KK. Since mid-June 2012, the PAVATEX Group has held a 25 percent stake in the Italian Naturalia-BAU GmbH based in Merano , in return the owners of Naturalia-BAU GmbH acquired smaller shares in PAVATEX Holding AG.
Since 2008, a biomass boiler in Cham, which supplies the plant with thermal energy, has improved the annual climate balance by around 7,500 tons of CO 2 ; since then Pavatex has also been a member of the WWF Climate Group . PAVATEX is also the first Swiss company to own an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) from the Institute for Building and Environment (IBU)
Manufacturing
- As raw material mainly be conifers (firs and pines local Swiss saw mills) in the form of slabs , spreader Isseln and wood chips used
- The production takes place in the wet process . The wood is broken down into fibers in a thermomechanical process and set under heat
- The slurried fibers are shaped into a fiber cake on the molding machine, cut and dried in the dryer at 160 to 220.degree
- The wood's own binding forces (mainly lignin ) ensure the cohesion of the wood fiber insulation panels . No chemical binders are required to glue the fibers together.
- The ecological high quality and ecological harmlessness of Pavatex products are continuously checked and confirmed by independent organizations
- This also includes the 2010 study by Ernst Basler + Partner on the sustainability of PAVATEX wood fiber insulation systems.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Business magazine Bilan, edition of March 9, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Holzbau Schweiz - partner conference, April 23, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.3 MB)
- ↑ Ulrich Ammon, Rhea Kyvelos, regulators Nyffenegger: Variant Dictionary of German: The default language in Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, eastern Belgium and South Tyrol. Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-016575-9 , p. 561. (digitized on: books.google.ch )
- ↑ Foundation stone for new Pavatex plant in France. on: lignum.ch , March 20, 2012.
- ↑ EUWID European Economic Service GmbH
- ↑ Finding a job after the Pavatex era is difficult. In: Freiburger Nachrichten, April 14, 2015.
- ↑ New owner for Pavatex property. In: Freiburger Nachrichten, February 9, 2016.
- ↑ HCN HolzConsulting GmbH ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Institute Building and Environment eV
- ↑ Minergie module list for wall and roof constructions
- ↑ WWF guide "Natural living and building"
- ↑ Study on the sustainability of PAVATEX wood fiber insulation systems
