Zanders paper mill

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Zanders Paper GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1829
Seat Bergisch Gladbach , Germany
management Terje Haglund
Number of employees 380
Branch Papermaking
Website zanders.de

The Zanders Paper GmbH is a paper mill in Bergisch Gladbach , North Rhine-Westphalia at the Strunde . It goes back to the paper mill JW Zanders founded in 1829 .

The former Gohrsmühle , which scooped paper with three water wheels, was located in the entrance area to the company's administration . The street An der Gohrsmühle is named after her. It was one of the mills on the round .

history

Schnabelsmühle, wood engraving around 1850

The paper factory goes back to a paper factory in the Schnabelsmühle am Strunderbach (formerly called Quirlsmühle), which was licensed by the merchant Phillip von Fürth as early as 1582. After a checkered history, the estate went bankrupt in 1820 . In 1822, the young Düsseldorf forest official Johann Wilhelm Zanders and Gottfried Fauth, the son of the previous owner, founded the company Fauth & Zanders . After the death of his partner, with whom he was related, Zanders took over the paper mill in 1829 under the company name JW Zanders as the sole owner. This year is taken as the date of establishment in the company's history.

Zanders died in 1831. The company was continued by his widow Julie Zanders . In 1848 the eldest son of the couple, Carl Richard Zanders, joined the paper mill. In 1860 a paper machine was installed in the Schnabelsmühle, in 1865 Zanders leased the Gohrsmühle from the heirs of Fues, bought it in 1868 and began to produce pulp from straw. The program also included the production of high-quality, rag-containing letterheads with the Gohrsmühle coat of arms . After the death of CR Zanders, his widow Maria Zanders continued the company, which acquired Dombacher Papierfabrik AG in 1876 . The sons Hans Wilhelm and Richard Zanders expanded the plant considerably in 1893 and began producing art paper in 1895 , for which a coating machine was installed.

Pump house for the water pipe of the Zanders paper mill; Alte Dombach paper museum

In order to ensure the water supply, numerous pieces of land have been acquired in the Strunde valley since 1900, where the groundwater was pumped through wells. In addition, in 1904, for the same purpose, the rights to several pits , which have since been closed, were acquired from which the water was pumped.

At the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1910 , Alexe Altenkirch (commercial graphic designer and “advertising manager” at Zanders from 1906 to 1932) received a gold medal for designing the Zanders stand . Alexe Altenkirch also designed the Zanders stand and the German paper industry stand at the International Press Exhibition Pressa in 1928 .

When Johann Wilhelm Zanders II joined the company in 1929, Dominikus Böhm built a power plant with two turbines and the outdated Dombach plant was shut down. The factory buildings were badly damaged in the Second World War , restored by 1949 and modernized and expanded by 1954. In 1956 the license for the production of Chromolux paper was acquired, the production of which started in 1958 and which was to become an important source of sales for Zanders, especially since a coating machine with an extra width of 300 cm was put into operation for this purpose in 1960.

Takeovers and expansion

Power plant hall

In 1965 the traditional paper mill Felix Heinr. Founded in 1857 by Felix Heinrich Schoeller . Schoeller in Düren . In addition, in 1982 the company took over the Neumühl, Hugo Albert Schöller paper mill in Düren-Birkesdorf with two paper machines. Both companies in Düren were merged on this occasion. On September 5, 1980, the family company Zanders Feinpapiere GmbH & Co. Bergisch Gladbach was converted into a stock corporation. This step was necessary because they wanted to set up an investment program amounting to 200 million DM in order to further expand the capacities for the production of high-quality fine papers of the brands "Chromolux" and "autocopy".

In 1983 the company went public. The share capital was increased by bearer shares from DM 40 million to DM 60 million. In 1986, paper machine 4 (PM 4) from 1889, which can be viewed today in the Alte Dombach paper museum in Bergisch Gladbach, was replaced by a new paper machine 3 (PM 3). The logistics were improved with the construction of a new power station and a new coating machine. The total capital requirement was shown to be around DM 1 billion. For the earthworks, around 1000 reinforced concrete pillars were driven approx. 30 m down in the area of ​​the former Johann Wilhelm lignite mine in order to get to solid ground. During this construction phase, in November 1989, the report was made that the shareholders of JW Zanders KG, which held the majority of the ordinary shares with 51%, had transferred all of the assets including the property and rights belonging to the Zanders company in the Gronauerwald garden to the International Paper Company, New York (IP). It was the first time that IP had bought a manufacturer of fine papers. They made no secret of the fact that they were primarily interested in the name Zanders when they bought it, because the company had marketed its products around the world for many years and had built up a solid market position. In July 1992 the new plant was put into operation.

retreat

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Building of the Zanders GmbH paper factory in Bergisch Gladbach

The following press release was published on November 8, 2000: IP has successfully concluded negotiations with the Finnish Metsä-Serla Corporation regarding the sale of its shares in Zanders Feinpapiere AG. The purchase of the Zanders shares by Metsä-Serla still requires the approval of the European Commission . On June 27, 2002, the ordinary general meeting of Zanders Feinpapiere AG decided to transfer the shares of the minority shareholders to the main shareholder, M-real Deutsche Holding GmbH, in return for an appropriate cash compensation. The company was later converted into a GmbH and was named M-real Zanders GmbH . On April 26, 2012, the entry in the commercial register was changed with the new name Metsä Board Zanders GmbH .

After various divisions had already been sold to other paper manufacturers in the Düren Reflex plant, the premium paper division of M-real was sold to Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH in January 2012 , such as the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, the Bergische Landeszeitung and the Dürener Newspaper reported on January 14, 2012.

After paper production in the Gohrsmühle had largely been shut down and only the production of Chromolux paper was continued, Metsä Board announced the establishment of a new Express Board Service Center in Bergisch Gladbach under the name Metsä Board Zanders GmbH in November 2012 . In the future, folding boxboard will be cut to size goods according to customer orders, which will be produced in Finland and transported in large rolls to Bergisch Gladbach. Due to its central location in Central Europe, Metsä Board promises its customers short delivery times.

On the night of February 14-15, 2013, a large fire broke out in a Metsä Board Zanders paper roll warehouse. Several thousand tons of folding boxboard were destroyed in the process, and as a result, the finishing of folding boxboard, which started in autumn 2012 in the Gohrsmühle, has to be interrupted for some time.

On October 17, 2013, the works council of Metsä Board Zanders GmbH was awarded the German Works Council Prize in gold for its ongoing commitment to maintaining the Gohrsmüle location as part of the future project "Zanders Paper Park".

Sale to Mutares

In May 2015 the company was sold to Mutares AG and has been trading under the name Zanders again since then. On 22 June 2018, the Zanders GmbH applied for before the Cologne district court , the insolvency proceedings in self-administration . The local court did not allow this application, instead regular insolvency proceedings were opened. The company had 500 employees at the time of bankruptcy.

Sale to Terje Haglund

The insolvent company was finally taken over on December 1, 2018 by a group of investors around the Norwegian pulp entrepreneur Terje Haglund and operates under the name of Zanders Paper GmbH . All properties at the company's headquarters in Bergisch Gladbach had already been sold to the city in advance. The company continued with 300 employees.

Zanders Foundation

Separated from Zanders Paper GmbH, the Zanders Foundation has existed since 1977 , which maintains the company archive of the previous JW Zanders AG and all predecessor companies as well as the family archive of the Zanders entrepreneurial family.

Street name

The connecting road An der Gohrsmühle between Hauptstrasse and Schnabelsmühle was named after the Gohrsmühle . Richard-Zanders-Straße, Hans-Zanders-Straße, Anna-Zanders-Straße and Maria-Zanders-Anlage in Bergisch Gladbach also bear the names of members of the Zanders family.

Monument of the month

The Rheinische Association for heritage conservation and landscape protection has named the paper mill Zanders at the Gohrsmühle to the monument of the month October 2012 on 24 October 2012 found.

See also

literature

  • Ferdinand Schmitz : The paper mills and paper makers of the Bergisch Strundertal , Bergisch Gladbach 1921
  • Festschrift Hundred Years of JW Zanders Paper Factory 1829-1929 , Bergisch Gladbach 1929
  • Wolf v. Niebelschütz, The White Art, 125 Years of JW Zanders , Bergisch Gladbach 1954
  • Egon Wolf, 125 years of JW Zanders , Bergisch Gladbach 1954
  • Klara van Eyll, 400 years of paper mills on the Strunde, a historical image documentation , publisher: Stiftung Zanders - Paper History Collection, Bergisch Gladbach 1982
  • Heinz Koch, ZANDERS, From the history of a company , publisher: Zanders Feinpapiere AG, Bergisch Gladbach 1989
  • Herbert Stahl , reflections on the history of Zanders Feinpapiere Aktiengesellschaft , in: Heimat between Sülz and Dhünn, history and folklore in Bergisch Gladbach and the surrounding area, issue 8, publisher: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, p. 48ff.
  • Hans Leonhard Brenner : The Strunde and their Bergisch Gladbacher mills , Bergisch Gladbach 2012, ISBN 3-932326-67-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zanders.de: Imprint
  2. ↑ a b company. In: Zanders. Retrieved on August 28, 2020 (German).
  3. ^ Andree Schulte, Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach city archive, volume 3, and by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 129, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
  4. ^ Website of the Zanders Foundation
  5. ^ Herbert Stahl (editor), Gerhard Geurts , Hans-Dieter Hilden, Herbert Ommer : Das Erbe des Erzes , Volume 3, The pits in the Paffrather Kalkmulde . Bergisch Gladbach 2006, pp. 87ff. ISBN 3-932326-49-0
  6. ^ Eduard Prüssen (linocuts), Werner Schäfke and Günter Henne (texts): Cologne heads . 1st edition. University and City Library, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-931596-53-8 , pp. 68 .
  7. ↑ Klara van Eyll , Renate Schwärzel: German Economic Archives: Evidence of historical sources in companies, corporations under public law (chambers) and associations of the Federal Republic of Germany , Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994 ISBN 978-3-51506211-4 , p. 307 f.
  8. ↑ Heinz Koch: Zanders, From the history of a company , Bergisch Gladbach 1989
  9. ↑ Chromolux
  10. ↑ a b c Herbert Stahl: Reflections on the history of Zanders Feinpapiere Aktiengesellschaft , in: Heimat between Sülz and Dhünn, issue 8, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, p. 48 ff.
  11. ↑ Depot information from Paffrather Raiffeisenbank eG, Bergisch Gladbach, from August 9, 2002
  12. ↑ The M-real era in Düren is over
  13. ↑ 100 employees in the Reflex factory can breathe easy
  14. ↑ Metsä Board opens new Express Board Center in Germany , accessed on November 24, 2012
  15. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau: Paper factory is on fire , accessed on February 16, 2013
  16. ↑ Metsä Board press release: Fire at Metsä Board's Gohrsmühle mill in Germany , accessed on February 16, 2013
  17. ^ Ruhrnachrichten: Awarding of the German Works Council Prize 2013 ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 30, 2013
  18. ↑ Works Council Day : Awarding of the German Works Council Prize 2013 ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 30, 2013
  19. ↑ Gisbert francs and Matthias Niewels: paper mill in Bergisch Gladbach. Zanders is sold to a conglomerate. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , April 30, 2015, accessed on June 25, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Matthias Niewels: insolvency proceedings. Zanders wants to continue the renovation course in self-administration. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , June 22, 2018, accessed June 25, 2018 .
  21. ^ Zanders paper mill files for bankruptcy . In: Print.de . June 29, 2018 ( print.de [accessed July 3, 2018]).
  22. ↑ a b Petra Ebeling: Insolvent paper mill Zanders sold. In: print.de. November 30, 2018, accessed April 21, 2019 .
  23. ^ Zanders: new owners around Terje Haglund. Retrieved February 4, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Business register
  25. ^ Zanders Foundation
  26. ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach town history in street names , publisher. Stadtarchiv Bergisch Gladbach and Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg eV, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 126, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
  27. ↑ Buildings at Gohrsmühle are Monument of the Month , accessed on October 25, 2012

Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 15 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 43 ″  E