WEIG

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WEIG carton
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1931
Seat Mayen , Germany
management Moritz Weig

Xaver Weig

Number of employees 1436 (July 2015)
sales approx. EUR 480 million
Branch Cardboard industry
Website www.weig-karton.de

WEIG-Karton is one of the three strategic business units of the WEIG-Group , a family-run group of companies. WEIG-Karton produces around 700,000 tons of recycled cardboard annually at the Mayen location in Germany . WEIG-Karton now appears worldwide as a manufacturer of folding boxboard and plasterboard. The production of recycled cardboard is the origin of the group of companies.

Along the value chain, WEIG-Karton is supplemented by two further strategic business units: upstream WEIG recycling (disposal of households, retail, trade and industry) and downstream WEIG packaging (further processing and refinement of cardboard into folding boxes).

Mayen, Weig GmbH & Co. KG, aerial photo (2015)

history

WEIG-Karton has its origin in 1931, when the entrepreneur Moritz J. Weig took over the Cederwaldmühle in Bergisch Gladbach . He renamed it Moritz J. Weig paper and cardboard factory . In 1951 he had the board machine installed there converted. Among other things, a Yankee cylinder was installed. After the conversion, the machine had a working width of 160 cm and achieved a daily production of up to 35 tons. The first board machine with the designation KM1 was later dismantled and the site in Bergisch Gladbach was closed.

The second board machine was built in Mayen under the name KM2 . It had a working width of 250 cm and a daily output of 50 t. It was demolished after it was replaced by more modern machines.

In 1964 the board machine ( KM3 ) , which still exists today, followed . At that time the production capacity was 130 tons per day. After numerous modifications and modernizations, the daily output of the KM3 is around 700 t today. Their working width is 430 cm.

By 1969 two more board machines ( KM4 and KM5 ) were built and put into operation at a new location, but production was discontinued after a few years.

In 1969 Tecno-Karton was founded in order to set up the first machine specially built for plasterboard in Europe. Two years later, the KM6 for the production of plasterboard goes into operation right next to the KM3 on the factory premises . With a working width of 540 cm, it was able to manage 250 t per day.

In 1977 the KM3 is rebuilt and a new Yankee cylinder with a diameter of 6.1 m for folding boxboard is installed.

In 1978 the son of the company founder Moritz Weig founded the company Cartones Yaguareté SA ( CYSA ) in Paraguay . It is the first company there to produce cardboard from waste paper.

In 1988 the new stock preparation for the KM3 is put into operation. It is the first plant in Europe that can work with 100 percent recovered paper. In 1991 a solid fuel incineration plant for fiber fragments and ash is built.

Two years later, a production line for sleeves is built and the sales company WEIG Inc. is founded in the USA .

In 1997, the WEIG logistics center was put into operation, which was expanded in 2002 due to increased production.

In accordance with the technical advances in the paper industry, the KM3 was modernized in 2000 by installing a shoe press. The KM6 was also modernized in the year it was converted to a Fourdrinier wire. In 2006 the capacity of KM6 was expanded .

Not only did production increase over the years, but also energy consumption, which is why a power plant expansion at the Mayen plant was initiated in 2007.

In 2008, KM7 was set up in Paraguay for the South American region and the WEIG logistics center was expanded again for the Mayen location.

Products

  • Folding boxboard
  • Plasterboard
  • Testliner

literature

  • Friedrich Gerhard Venderbosch and Herbert W. Kranzhoff: Cederwald and Cederwaldmühle: Moritz J. Weig and his company , special publication by the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis department of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein eV on the occasion of the 70th birthday of its chairman, the manufacturer Moritz J. Weig, Bergisch Gladbach no year

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Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 16.1 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 1.6 ″  E