Delfortgroup
delfortgroup AG is a privately owned specialty paper manufacturer with headquarters in Traun, Upper Austria. As of 2015, the company employs over 2,000 employees worldwide and owns six mills in Europe and Asia, as well as sales offices in three continents.[1]
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| Type | Specialty paper manufacturer |
| Ownership | Private; family-owned |
| Industry | Paper & Packaging, Pulp |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Headquarters | Traun, Austria |
| Key people | Martin Zahlbruckner (CEO),
Roland Faihs (CFO and COO) |
| Products | ecopac papers, electrical insulation papers,
graphic papers, plugwrap and cigarette papers, release base papers, roll your own and make your own papers, special fibres, thinprint papers, tipping base papers |
| No. Employees | 2,000 (2015) |
| Website | www.delfortgroup.com |
Global Operations
In 2006, delfortgroup AG was established as an independent company in Traun, Austria.
delfortgroup owns six subsidiaries across Europe and Asia (as of December 2015) which manufacture specialty papers for a number of applications demanding high performance, thinner and lighter, and more sustainable paper alternatives. With a legacy dating back to 1559, delfortgroup’s paper mills include:
· Dr. Franz Feurstein (Austria; est. 1867),
· Wattenspapier (Austria; 1559),
· OP Papírna (Czech Republic; 1861),
· Tervakoski Oy (Finland; 1818),
· Dunafin Kft. (Hungary; 1962),
· and Wattens Vietnam (Vietnam; 2009).[2]
In 2015, the company employed around 2,000 people and sold over 9,476 km² of paper. The group's CEO is Martin Zahlbruckner and the CFO and COO is Roland Faihs.
Specialty Paper Solutions
delfortgroup offers optimized paper solutions for demanding applications which require innovative, customized and highly technical specialty papers, including but not limited to: baking and packaging papers for the food and packaging industry, plugwrap, cigarette and tipping base papers for the tobacco industry, base paper for industrial labels, leaflets for the pharmaceutical industry and thin papers for religious literature, catalog and scientific printing as well as electrical insulation papers for sea cables.
As a solution-oriented technology leader, delfortgroup serves its customers with quick response times and individualized offers at its sales offices across the world, including in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Hong Kong, and the United States. delfortgroup leads the industry in delivering high-performance, tailor-made paper specialties to a diverse global market.
By combining state-of-the-art machinery, pure and renewable materials, and individualized customer service, delfortgroup maintains an excellent reputation within its markets for consistent and dependable performance by understanding.
Sustainability
As a leading specialty paper manufacturer with world-wide operations, delfortgroup uses its global influence to set an example as a responsible and ethical business. delfortgroup is committed to providing the highest quality papers to its customers by utilizing pure, renewable resources, as well as carefully managed and efficient processes and innovative, sustainable designs. All products are also designed with waste disposal in mind to offer customers recyclable, compostable, and/or biodegradable packaging and paper enabling the replacement of non-renewable alternatives.
delfortgroup sources only wood pulp from sustainably managed forests and certified suppliers. In order to reduce and improve energy consumption, all mills have established energy management systems in line with ISO50001, leading to significant reductions in GHG emissions across the group.
delfortgroup complies with all local and national regulations, as well as several voluntary management systems which ensure the highest standards of production in the industry. delfortgroup is an equal-opportunity employer and conducts all business according to a strict code of conduct in line with the UN Global Compact. Since 2010, delfortgroup has published group-wide annual Sustainability Reports in accordance with Global Reporting Initiatives.
References
- ↑ delfortgroup (2015). Future Matters: Sustainability Report 2015. Austria. p. 87.
- ↑ "delfortgroup website". delfortgroup homepage. November 2015. Retrieved November 2015.