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💬 ‘Proud of its past and looking to the future, the paper industry is not dead between Dauphiné and Savoie. That’s why a historic cardboard manufacturing plant has called on an industrial photographer to showcase its heritage and trades.’ France 3 Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes / Savoie

📸 In September 2024, we had the pleasure of working with industrial photographer Jerome Poulalier to capture our trades, our French know-how and our employees at the heart of our manufacturing process.

To find out more about this great collaboration, read the France 3 AURA article 👉 https://lnkd.in/dPJafKUj

A big thank you to France 3 Auvergne Rhône-Alpes for this spotlight and to Emilie Le Douaron for relaying it to the press!

Tuesday 4 and Tuesday 11 February, the food was at the rendezvous at La Rochette Cartonboard!

More than 600 pancakes were distributed throughout the plant, offering a friendly moment within each department and team.

Thanks to the volunteers who helped with the preparation and distribution!

🚧🔧 Optimization of our automatic inventory: the dismantling of bridge 885, a project successfully completed to reach new heights!

From 2 to 7 January 2025, we launched the project to dismantle bridge 885 mobilising several internal teams: EAI, Methods, Safety, Production, Supply Chain and Purchasing.

The goals :
✅ To store around 100 additional reels on site, thereby reducing external storage
✅ To create 6 metres of track for bridge 886
✅ To dismantle the bridge quickly while limiting the impact on production
✅ To simplify flows and reduce waste
This project was completed a day ahead of schedule, thereby minimising the impact on production!

Thanks to our partner IMECO whose expertise made this project a success.

✨ The entire team at La Rochette Cartonboard SAS wishes you a happy new year in 2025!

With this new year, we turn a page full of promises and challenges to be met, always with the aim of consolidating the sustainability of our factory and to reach, together, new summits.

In 2025, our commitment remains intact: to perpetuate our know-how, innovate and build a sustainable future for our industry, our partners and future generations.

May 2025 be a year full of successes, opportunities and new projects for each and every one of you.

Together, let’s continue to build a sustainable future and write history in the service of cartonboard.

Thank you for your trust and your commitment to us.

Throughout the year, we’ve taken you step by step through the various departments and phases of our manufacturing process.

Now it’s time for the final stage, where we meet the specific needs of our customers: the Transformation & Expedition service.

Our customers can order our cartonboard:
– In reels: in the form of large ‘mother reels’ or smaller ‘daughter reels’.
– In format: sheets piled on pallets.

The process in detail:
– For daughter reels:
The mother reels are unwound, their edges removed, then cut to the width requested by the customer before being rewound on a mandrel.

– For format pallets:
A mother reel is unwound, its edges removed, then cut to width and length using a slitter to obtain sheets. These sheets are then piled onto pallets.

Once ready, the daughter reels and pallets are shrink-wrapped, labelled and stored before shipment.

📊 Some key figures:

– Around 1/3 of production is delivered as daughter reels, while the rest is shipped on pallets.

– We manufacture an average of 800 pallets a day, depending on our customers’ orders.