The paper and cardboard industry: a sector between tradition and modernity

📊 Do you know the statistics for the Paper and Cardboard Industry (PCI) in France? The PCI is:

– 1,500 companies,
– 63,500 employees,
– 30% women.

💼 What makes the paper and cardboard industry unique?

✔️ An industry with a sustainable future: With several centuries of history, we innovate to meet the environmental challenges of tomorrow.
✔️ Living professions: Working with living materials such as wood and water, our industry makes the most of renewable resources.
✔️ Everyday jobs: As part of the circular economy, we offer practical alternatives to plastic.
✔️ Innovative businesses: Always looking for new solutions, we imagine the packaging of tomorrow.

🔎 Focus on La Rochette Cartonboard SAS:

At La Rochette Cartonboard SAS, to manufacture our pulp, we use forestry chips harvested from local sawyers in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region within an average 100km radius of the factory.
Water, which is also essential to our process, is collected from the river near the plant: the Joudron.

👀 Next: Do you think the paper industry is bad for the forest? See you next week to deconstruct this myth!