The Schumacher Packaging Group is continuing on its growth path with a strategic investment. A complete paper factory has been taken over in Myszków, Poland. Overall, the Schumacher Packaging Group now owns a new production facility with a site covering an area in excess of 28 hectares, its own power plant and its own sewage treatment plant.

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Schumacher Packaging acquired the entire Myszków production site in Poland

The Schumacher Packaging Group is continuing on its growth path with a strategic investment. A complete paper factory has been taken over in Myszków, Poland, as the company said in the press release received by Lesprom Network.

Managing Director Björn Schumacher said: "The paper market is subject to strong price fluctuations. They could not be passed on to the market, especially in the last three years. In future we will be able to compensate for this volatility much better. Since we are improving our delivery capability, we are also securing further growth opportunities."

Schumacher Packaging Group is investing Euro 100 million for this purpose. The takeover negotiations lasted almost two years due to complicated legal relationships and have now been completed. An important intermediate step was taken in March 2016 with the purchase of the paper machine, the heart of the factory.

Overall, the Schumacher Packaging Group now owns a new production facility with a site covering an area in excess of 28 hectares, its own power plant and its own sewage treatment plant.

To date, newspaper papers have primarily been produced on the 5.36-metre-wide paper machine. Following the conversion to corrugated paper, around 250,000 to 300,000 tonnes of high-quality Testliner and Wellenstoff- depending on the weight - will be produced annually in Myszków, Poland.

In the next two to three years around 30 employees will ensure that the infrastructure and the buildings are repaired in accordance with the Quality Guidelines of the Schumacher Packaging Group, and that the machine is prepared for conversion.

Production is scheduled to start in 2019 when around 130 employees will manufacture corrugated paper with an annual value of Euro 100 million.

Schumacher Packaging is an owner-managed, Europe-wide packaging specialist for corrugated and solid cardboard board.