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With more than 30 production sites across three lines of business there is guaranteed to be some news about the Palm Group. Whether company news, product news or interesting industry reports about paper, corrugated board, packaging and recycling - here you will find it all in a nutshell. 

 

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Acquisition of John Hargreaves (Collyhurst and Stalybridge) Ltd. in UK

The family company John Hargreaves (Collyhurst & Stalybridge) Ltd. is a producer of corrugated products in Single Face Rolls, Double Faced Board…

Wellprint grabs silver at the “display Superstar Award 2024”

Wellprint was honoured by being awarded silver at the “display Superstar Award 2024” in Mainz. The award-winning quarter-pallet display – developed…

PALM at FACHPACK 2024: focus on innovations and sustainable packaging solutions

From 24 to 26 September 2024, the PALM Group presented its latest developments at the FACHPACK trade fair in Nuremberg. The focus was on PALM…

Palm paper mill in Eltmann celebrates two important anniversaries in September 2024: 30 years of PM 1 and 25 years of PM 3

Eltmann, September 2024 - The Papierfabrik Palm mill in Eltmann can look back on two special anniversaries this year: 30 years of PM 1 and 25 years of…

Silver for Papierfabrik Palm Aalen

The Palm Werk Aalen paper mill has achieved a remarkable performance in the EcoVadis assessment and has been awarded the silver medal. This puts Palm…

Wellpappe Alzenau focuses on sustainable transportation with two new all-electric trucks

Wellpappe Alzenau, a Palm Group packaging plant, has taken a significant step towards sustainability by adding two fully electric Mercedes E-trucks…

Palm Cover for sustainable paper tablecloths and paper placemats

New in the portfolio of Papierfabrik Palm

Winner German Design Award 2024: Quick Setup Display Tray

Excellent Product Design Retail - Packwell Monheim

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Winner German Design Award 2024: Retail-Ready-Packaging

Excellent Communications Design - Packwell Schwepnitz

Ceremonial inauguration of the combined heat and power plant in Wörth

Palm sets standards in terms of recycling management, resource conservation and energy efficiency.

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PALM is one of the finalists of the German Sustainability Award

PALM is one of three finalists in the paper, cardboard and paperboard category of the German Sustainability Award. In cooperation with the German…

Winner German Design Award 2023 for "Quality Wine & Champagne Box"

Excellent Communications Design - Seyfert Champagne, Reims

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Ceremonial inauguration of the newly modernised combined heat and power plant in Eltmann on 13th July 2023

Palm sets further standards in energy efficiency and resource conservation

Start of project for new corrugated board plant in Alzenau

For Wellpappe Alzenau, ground surveys are currently taking place for the new construc-tion of the corrugated board plant in the industrial area of…

Further sales office for corrugated case material and newsprint in Warsaw

Since January, Palm has been operating another sales office in Warsaw, Poland.

Information on the paper industry: New film of the association "Die Papierindustrie e.V."

The paper industry employs 46,000 people at around 150 locations in Germany. The sustainability of this industry is illustrated by the recycling rate…

Acquisition of the OL Pack S.r.l. corrugated board plant in Italy

Palm has acquired the family-owned company OL Pack S.r.l. with effect from September 2022

150 years of Palm - Open day at the Palm Paper Mill

Palm invited the local community to a public tour of the new paper mill with a social programme on Sunday, 25th September 2022, to celebrate the…

150 Years of Palm – Paper is our passion!

The family-owned Palm company celebrated its 150th anniversary with a ceremony on the factory site of the headquarters in Aalen-Neukochen. 800 invited…

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1st May 2022: 150 years old – and yet completely new

Papierfabrik Palm can look back on a long and eventful company history. The company is celebrating its 150th anniversary with a leading-edge…

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40 years of service for Dr. Wolfgang Palm

Dr. Wolfgang Palm celebrated his 40th anniversary of service on 1st April 2022. The event was marked by a small ceremony with the company's top…

Marina Palm joins the management board of the family business

Marina Palm, daughter of Dr. Wolfgang Palm, joined the management of Palm on 1st March 2022. This ensures the high ethical values Palm offers as an…

German Design Award 2022 for LockWell - paper tray made of ultralight corrugated cardboard

Confectionery experience for cookies, cakes, chocolate, and more

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Winner German Design Award 2023 for Express Pop-Up-Display

Excellent Product Design Retail - Packwell Monheim

German Design Award 2022 - Special Mention for Rising Box

Secure gift packaging for transporting champagne and wine in best form

Palm is nominated for the German Environmental Management Award 2021

Papierfabrik Palm GmbH & Co. KG has been nominated for the German Environmental Management Award 2021. This prize is awarded to companies and…

Palm is one of Baden-Württemberg's innovation leaders and receives the Environmental Technology Award 2021

Palm successfully participated in the Environmental Technology Award in the category of material efficiency with its product "PALM Ultralight…

Wellprint wins gold in the “display Superstar Award” in the corrugated cardboard small series category

The “display Superstar Award” in Frankfurt is Germany's largest competition focused on communication, merchandising, and product presentation.

Palm receives award from the Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy Congress in the category "100 companies for resource efficiency" in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

The PM 5 project at Papierfabrik Palm GmbH & Co. KG in Aalen is an excellent example of how efficient handling of raw materials and the use of the…

GFIA 2021 Special Mentions

Global Flexo Innovation Awards 2021 special mentions for “Shopping Bag” as joint contribution of Seyfert Reichenbach and D&W Flexo-Manufaktur

Papierfabrik Palm successfully awarded the renewal of the eco-label “Blue Angel“

The renewed award of the “Blue Angel” eco-label to Palm relates to the entire range of graphic papers from our paper mills in Eltmann (Germany) and…

Successful commissioning of RCCM paper machine PM5

Palm‘s new paper machine at its headquarters in Aalen was successfully started up on 4th July 2021. Due to several Corona-related problems, the…

Palm wins iF DESIGN AWARD 2021

Palm wins this year’s iF DESIGN AWARD with Seyfert Salzgitter and joins the prize-winners of one of the world’s most celebrated design competitions.…

Federal Environment Ministry promotes our more energy-efficient recycling process

With the new paper machine under construction at the main plant in Aalen-Neukochen, the future requirement for high-quality pulp will be produced in a…

HWK produces function rolls for Palm's new paper machine

At the construction site of the Palm paper mill in Neukochen, the assembly of the world’s fastest and widest corrugated base paper machine is now in…

Seyfert Salzgitter Wins the German Design Award Special 2021

Special Mention for “Bottle-Wrap” in the Category of Excellent Communications Design – Packaging

Nestler receives gold medal in EcoVadis rating

Nestler Wellpappe GmbH & Co. KG meets the highest requirements in terms of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The company has been awarded a gold…

Palm launches new graphic paper: Palm Diamond as alternative to SC-B quality

Palm paper mills continuously invest in their products and further development. With the development of "Palm Diamond", Palm is introducing a new…

Investment in forward-thinking technologies at the Palm paper factory in Wörth am Rhein

The Palm paper factory is investing over 100 million euros in its Wörth plant. The power plant is being updated, and a new gas turbine and new steam…

Palm is system relevant

High volumes of medicine bottles or containers are not able to be loaded and transported loose on a truck. Corrugated board packaging is always…

Modernisation and expansion of power plant at Palm paper mill in Wörth

On Tuesday 11th February 2020, the ground-breaking ceremony for the modernisation and expansion of the power plant of the Palm paper mill in Wörth…

German Design Award Special 2020

“Special Mention” Award in the “Excellent Product Design” category

Deutscher Verpackungspreis 2018

Palm Packaging has been distinguished with one of the most coveted awards in the packaging industry.

Our award winner is the Barbecue Pyramid.

Promotion Gift Award 2020

Our Barbecue Pyramid upgrade has been nominated for the Promotional Gift Award and awarded with a PGA 2020 in the “Communicative Product” category.

Palm invests £80 million

Palm invests £80 million in a Paper Separation Plant (PSP) and Combined Heat and Power facility (CHP)

Palm Award 2019

For more than 10 years Palm has nominated the "Palm Award" to graduates of the Master's program "Paper Technology" at Munich University of Applied…

Palm Packaging is growing

REKA Wellpappenwerke GmbH strengthens Palm Group

Swing paper machine converted to RCCM

PM 2 at the Aalen paper mill was installed in 1983 as a swing machine for Newsprint and recycled corrugated base paper.

Groundbreaking ceremony for the new plant in Aalen Neukochen, Germany

Today, in the presence of representatives from administration, politics, business, and industry, the Aalen-based family-owned company Palm is breaking…

Palm receives permission to build

Papierfabrik Palm is able to start with the construction of essential parts of the planned new paper mill in Aalen-Neukochen, Germany.

Palm Packaging is winner of the IF DESIGN AWARD 2019 - Lamella Box

Palm Packaging has won this year's IF DESIGN AWARD and is one of the winners of the world-renowned design label.

Winner of the DFTA AWARD 2019

Excellent performance in flexographic printing

Waste paper sorting plant in King's Lynn

Palm Paper builds waste paper sorting plant in King's Lynn

Palm invests

Palm invests €500 million at its head office in Aalen-Neukochen

Environmentally-friendly energy supply at Palm Paper

In view of environmental and economic considerations, Palm decided to build a combined cycle power plant (CCGT) to provide an independent supply of…

Palm Academy

The Palm Academy was established in 2017 and offers Palm employees ongoing training possibilities.

Environmentally friendly energy concept for Descartes

Papeteries Palm, Palm’s French paper mill located in Descartes, has successfully started up its brand new power plant at the end of 2017.

Palm Packaging is winner of the iF DESIGN AWARD 2018

Grill Pyramid

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Palm Flute HP1

Palm has recently started producing an improved waste based fluting from the Descartes mill.

Palm invests in own energy generation

Palm believes in generating energy by investing in Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (CCGT) at all five of its paper mills.

Certification according to EU-Ecolabel (DE/037/001) for Palm News et Palm News H

Since May 2016 Papierfabrik Palm holds the EU-Ecolabel for it’s graphic papers.

 

Acquisition of a Corrugated Board Manufacturer in Italy

In view of the changing generation at this company, the current family owners have decided to hand over the running of Ondulato Lecchese SpA in Italy…

Acquisition of a Corrugated Board Manufacturer near Leipzig in Germany

As part of the concentration on the business for offset printed packaging and displays, Dr Roman Bauernfeind has decided to hand over ROBA Corrugated…