MORE THAN 40 YEARS HISTORY
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2018
AUSTRIA
Europapier takes a participation in the packaging specialist Carl Bernh. Hoffmann GmbH in Jeging, Austria
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2013
EUROPAPIER
reactivates its sales activities in Ukraine and sets up Europapier Eastern Europe, a joint-venture.
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2012
EUROPAPIER GROUP
acquires 100 % of the local paper merchant businesses in Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia from PaperlinX.
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2010
EUROPAPIER
BECOMES PART
OF HEINZEL GROUPThe group with headquarters in Vienna comprises the international pulp and paper trading company Wilfried Heinzel AG, pulp and paper producers Zellstoff Pöls AG, Laakirchen Papier AG and AS Estonian Cell as well as waste paper treatment and distribution company Bunzl & Biach.
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2007
EUROPAPIER
strengthens its market position in Bosnia & Herzegovina by acquiring and merging with Hercegtisak, a local paper merchant with an office and school supply business.
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2003
EUROPAPIER
acquires the Polish merchanting business of International Paper, and Europapier Impap is born.
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2002
BULGARIA
Europapier completes its expansion into the Balkan countries with the establishment of Europapier Bulgaria.
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2001
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
In the year of its thirtieth anniversary, Europapier sets up operations in Bosnia & Herzegovina, another country of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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1998
UKRAINE
Europapier establishes a sales office in Ukraine which is closed few years later due to business environment conditions.
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1997
ROMANIA
Europapier starts a greenfield operation in Romania, a market of over 20 million people.
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1996
CROATIA
One year later Croatia with its more than 1.000 islands and 5.835 kilometer coastline becomes part of Europapier Group.
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1995
SERBIA & MONTENEGRO
The expansion into the Balkans continues: Europapier sets up operations in Serbia & Montenegro.
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1994
POLAND
With the acquisition of Sonevix in Poland Europapier enters a country of nearly 40 million people, which means more than doubling its market. Europapier expands Sonevix’s core business, i.e. visual communication, by establishing printing and writing as well as office paper units.
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1993
SLOVENIA & CZECH REPUBLIC
The expansion continues southward, when Europapier enters its smallest market Slovenia with just over two million inhabitants.
The foundation of Europapier Bohemia in Czech Republic marks the next step in Europapier’s northeastward expansion.
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1991
SLOVAKIA
The same year Europapier enters the Slovak market by setting up operations in the capital Bratislava, situated 60 kilometers from the Austrian boarder.
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1991
HUNGARY
Just two years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, Europapier is the first western paper merchant to enter the Eastern European market by establishing a company in its neighboring country Hungary.
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1971
ESTABLISHMENT
OF EUROPAPIER IN AUSTRIAEuropapier Austria with headquarters in Vienna is established by the four paper mills Neusiedler (current Mondi), Nettingsdorfer, Salzer and Steyrermühl.