Cartonnerie Gondardennes
Cartonnerie
Gondardennes
Cartonnerie Gondardennes' 30-hectare production site in Wardrecques is one of the largest in Europe. It is equipped with 2 paper machines, 3 corrugators and several converting machines, enabling it to offer a very wide range of corrugated board sheets to its French and international customers (20% of sales are exported).
key figures
1 Paper mill
1 Cardboard factory
400 employees
125 years of experience
180,000 tonnes of corrugated base paper produced on 2 paper machines
250 million m2 of corrugated board produced on 3 corrugators.
123 M€ turnover
Our expertise
A choice of more than 500 qualities of standard and speciality sheets offers converting customers a wide range of uses, including the manufacture of regular cases (0201), die-cuts, fittings, point of sale displays and shelf ready packaging.
Cartonnerie Gondardennes is expanding into the production and conversion of packaging in large runs. It operates in the fast-growing corrugated board packaging market, which has been boosted by e-commerce and the replacement of plastic by paper and cardboard.
Industrial investment in die-cutting and flexo printing & folder-gluers machines (+€15m) enables us to address all industrial sectors: food, non-food and industrial consumer products: regular case(s) (0201), die-cuts, fittings, point of sale displays and shelf ready packaging, postal pouches, postal packaging, glued crash lock base, crash lock base, dividers, layer pads, pallet caps, as well as alternatives to wooden pallets: Paleco®, our patented cardboard pallet.
Our group
The CGW Packaging Group employs more than 700 people at 7 sites, including 2 other corrugated board production sites, for a complete national network:
- Cartonnerie Ondaine, which has been based in Andrézieux-Bouthéon (42) in the Loire region for 40 years, is equipped with a corrugator that produces around 80 million square metres of corrugated board sheets a year for converters in the Rhône-Alpes region and the southern half of France.
- In 2019, the Group acquired paper and board manufacturer Lacaux Frères, which has been present on the French market since 1885. Located near Limoges in the Vienne department, Cartonnerie Lacaux specializes in corrugated board and packaging, with speciality products. Lacaux also has three cardboard companies and a trading site. Cartonnerie Lacaux has a production capacity of over 44,000 tonnes of paper and 80 million square metres of corrugated board.
The CGW Packaging Group generated sales of over €205 million in 2023, and accounts for almost 50% of the French sheetboard market for converters, making it the market leader.
