Progroup
| Progroup AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1991 |
| Seat | Landau in the Palatinate |
| management | Jürgen Heindl ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 1040 |
| sales | 804 million euros |
| Branch | Corrugated cardboard , paper |
| Website | www.progroup.ag |
| As of December 31, 2017 | |
Progroup is a German corrugated board manufacturer with several plants in Germany, France, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. According to its own information, the group of companies is one of the four largest producers of corrugated cardboard on the European market. Corrugated cardboard production is supplied with corrugated cardboard base paper by two of its own paper mills in Burg and Eisenhüttenstadt .
history
The company was founded in 1991 as Prowell GmbH by Jürgen Heindl and began producing corrugated cardboard in 1992 in Offenbach an der Queich, Palatinate . In the following decades, production capacity was greatly expanded through the construction of several new plants. Records have been set several times in terms of plant size and productivity. A corrugated cardboard plant was opened in Rokycany in the Czech Republic in 2002, which at the time housed the largest corrugated cardboard plant in the world. The Prowell plant in Schüttorf , which was inaugurated in 2006, was the largest corrugated cardboard sheetboard plant in Europe at the time of commissioning and had an annual production capacity of 155,000 tons. In 2007, the company's first plant in Offenbach an der Queich was shut down, while Europe's largest corrugated cardboard plant for heavy corrugated cardboard went into operation in the immediate vicinity of the old location. In December 2015, EnBW decided to take over a thermal power station in the immediate vicinity of the paper mill in Eisenhüttenstadt. The waste incineration plant generates up to 1 million tons of steam and 160 GWh of electricity annually. This means that 100% of the site's steam requirements and around 50% of the paper machine's electricity requirements can be covered. On the occasion of the company's 25th anniversary, Prime Minister Malu Dreyer said during a speech that Progroup AG is one of the top 5 companies in the industry and one of the 20 largest production companies in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Production sites
Progroup's classic business model is based on the fact that Progroup and its customers have different locations. Progroup delivers to its customers via fixed transport partners or through the Group's own logistics. This has 60 tractors for this purpose. Progroup also advertises “packaging park models” in which the customer settles in the vicinity of the corrugated cardboard plant or, conversely, a new corrugated cardboard plant is built at the customer's location according to the customer's requirements.
List of paper machines
The following table lists all paper machines that are operated by companies or whose commissioning is planned. The machines listed are used to produce corrugated board base paper for further processing in other factories of the company.
| Surname | Location | Installation | Operating speed | Annual production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PM1 | Castle | 2001 | 1300 m / min | 415,000 tons |
| PM2 | Eisenhüttenstadt | 2010 | 1700 m / min | 650,000 tons |
| PM3 | Sandersdorf-Brehna | 2nd half of 2020 | 1600 m / min | 750,000 tons |
List of corrugated cardboard plants
The following table lists all corrugated cardboard plants that are operated, operated or planned to be commissioned by companies.
| Surname | Location | Installation | Shutdown | Annual production |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PW01 | Offenbach on the Queich | 1992 | 2007 | ? |
| PW02 | Douvrin | 1996 | - | 85,000 tons |
| PW03 | Castle | 1998 | - | 130,000 tons |
| PW04 | Rokycany | 2002 | - | 140,000 tons |
| PW05 | Schuettorf | 2006 | - | 155,000 tons |
| PW06 | Offenbach on the Queich | 2007 | - | 170,000 tons |
| PW07 | Stryków | 2009 | - | 165,000 tons |
| PW08 | Ellesmere Port | 2009 | - | 85,000 tons |
| PW09 | Plößberg | 2015 | - | 90,000 tons |
| PW10 | Trzcinica | 2017 | - | 110,000 tons |
| PW11 | Drizzona | 2018 | - | 95,000 tons |
| PW12 | Ellesmere Port | 2019 | - | 235,000 tons |
| PW13 | Ice field | 4th quarter of 2019 | - | 190,000 tons |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Progroup: Imprint , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Federal Gazette: Consolidated financial statements for the financial year from January 1, 2017 to December 31 , 2017 , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Progroup: 25 years of Progroup , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ a b Progroup: Chronology , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ ka-news.de: EnBW sells the Eisenhüttenstadt thermal power station to Progroup AG , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Progroup: Energy , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ State government of Rhineland-Palatinate: Progroup Vordenker in Industrie 4.0 and sustainability , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Progroup: Logistics , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Progroup: Business models at a glance , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Progroup: Corrugated board base papers , accessed on September 4, 2019.
- ↑ Progroup: Growth Projects , accessed on September 4, 2019.