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From Swabia to the Caribbean. The Klingele Paper & Packaging Group has taken over a production site on the French island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean from International Paper Company, a leading global manufacturer of packaging, pulp and paper products based on renewable fibres.
The corrugated cardboard plant in Baillif, a municipality with around 5,000 inhabitants in the south-west of the island, mainly produces packaging for bananas and other fruit and vegetables as well as for the food and beverage industry.
Customers are mainly regional producers on Guadeloupe, but also on the neighbouring island of Martinique, which also belongs to France. The company, which will operate under the name Klingele Cartonnerie de Guadeloupe in future, has just under 40 employees and is the only one of its kind on the island. With this new acquisition, Klingele is continuing its successful course of internationalisation.
Third commitment on the American continent
The factory in Guadeloupe has a corrugator, a flatbed die-cutter and two inline machines. As the packaging produced there is primarily intended for direct contact with food and storage in cold stores, mainly kraftliner paper with a high fresh fibre content is used. In future, the mill will also source these from the Nova Campina paper mill in Brazil, which Klingele acquired a few months ago.
With this new investment, the Klingele Group Following its investment in Cuba and the acquisition of the Nova Campina paper mill in Brazil, Klingele is expanding its activities on the American continent. Klingele Embalajes Canarias, a Klingele subsidiary on Tenerife, has a great deal of expertise in integrating and expanding the new site: the corrugated board plant there also produces mainly for the fruit and vegetable trade and has a similar customer structure.
Source: Klingele Paper & Packaging Group
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