Chronicle

Expansion of the product portfolio through the partnership with the Austrian company Maistapack, a provider of innovative thermoformed packaging for direct food contact as well as corrugated and solid board packaging.

Klingele is investing in a sustainable energy supply at its Brazilian site with the “Energy Island” project to cover its electrical energy requirements independently and without the use of fossil resources.

Commissioning of the Diamniadio processing plant, Senegal.

On 1 April 2021, Klingele took over the Société Guadeloupéenne de Carton Ondulé (SGCO) production site on the French island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean from International Paper Company.

Klingele acquires the kraftliner paper mill in Nova Campina and a hydroelectric power plant in Catas Altas in the state of São Paolo from Klabin S. A., the largest producer of paper and packaging made from Corrugated cardboard in Brazil. Klingele is thus expanding its paper range to include virgin fibre papers.

100 years after the company was founded, Klingele is present for its customers with two paper mills, twelve corrugated cardboard plants, eight processing plants and one sheet feeder plant in Europe, Africa and Central America.

Since 12 December 2019, Klingele has been operating under the new umbrella brand "Klingele Paper & Packaging Group", which replaces the previous name "Klingele Papierwerke". The background to this is the Group's dynamic growth in Germany and abroad over decades, combined with numerous acquisitions and investments.

Klingele takes over the Spanish Ondunova Group in its entirety, having already acquired a stake in the company in the early 1970s.

The Klingele Group is investing in the Cuban corrugated cardboard industry through its Spanish subsidiary Klingele Embalajes and will in future operate two corrugated cardboard plants and a folding carton plant in Havana.

Klingele acquires a 26 per cent stake in the Scandinavian Peterson Group, which is the market leader in Norway and has a strong presence in Denmark and Sweden.

Blue Paper SAS is founded in Strasbourg as a joint venture with VPK Packaging and converted into a factory for lightweight corrugated base paper.

Klingele inaugurates "Weener Energie" - a power plant based on substitute fuels - at the location of its paper mill in Weener.

Klingele takes over the trading business in Elst in the province of Gelderland on the Dutch-German border and expands it into a processing plant (then Klingele Golfkarton C.V. from 2007); the processing plant moves to Nijmegen in 2019.

Klingele launches the largest expansion programme in the company's history. Around 400 million euros are invested in new machines, technologies and processes in the following years.

Following the death of Dr Werner Klingele, his son Dr Jan Klingele takes over the management of the Group.

Klingele takes over the paper mill in Weener, East Frisia, in 1961. This marks the family company's entry into paper production. Klingele starts its expansion in Spain this year through significant company investments.

The Weener paper mill puts a new paper machine into operation. This gives Klingele a leading technological position in the market for corrugated base paper.

Dr Brigitte Klingele joins the management team. 
The family business achieves a nationwide presence in Germany.

The two founding families, Klingele and Holfelder, go their separate ways in 1952. Grunbach becomes the parent plant of Klingele.
The Wiesloch plant remains in the possession of the Holfelder family.

After the death of company founder Alfred Klingele, his son Dr Werner Klingele takes over the management of the company.

The second plant is built in Grunbach near Stuttgart in 1936. Grunbach later becomes the Klingele Group's main plant.

Alfred Klingele and his brother-in-law Emil Holfelder found the Badische Wellpapierfabrik Klingele & Holfelder in Wiesloch near Heidelberg on 21 April 1920.