History
CARTONNERIE
GONDARDENNES
SINCE 1897
THE ORIGINS OF WIZERNES
9th September 1881
Jules Le Roux buys a flour mill in Gondardennes (Wizernes) on the banks of the River Aa.
Attempts are made to produce starch.
1897
SA Cartonneries de Gondardennes founded.
1900
Financial contribution from the brothers Paul, Armand and Charles Masson.
1902
1st continuous compact cardboard rewinding machine (1.85 m width).
MOVING TO WARDRECQUES
1911
Purchase of an industrial site, first a sugar mill, then a distillery and finally a tile factory, located in Wardrecques, to set up a 2nd cardboard factory close to the Neufossé canal and a railway line.
1913
12 workers' houses completed.
1936
1st corrugating machine (2.2 m wide).
THE TRIALS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR
23rd May 1940
Wardrecques: arrival of German troops.
March to July 1944
Wizernes: at least twelve Allied bombing raids destroy the factory near the Coupole d'Helfaut.
3rd to 5th September 1944
Wardrecques: German troops set fire to the factory.
CONCENTRATION OF RESOURCES
April 1947
The only site to be rebuilt, Wardrecques relaunches its cardboard production.
August 1948
Pulp production is restored.
July 1959
Transfer to Wardrecques of the ‘Enrouleuse moderne du Nord’ subsidiary (Tourcoing).
TURNING THE PAGE
1982
End of the use of straw, the basic raw material previously used to produce corrugated base paper.
1983
End of compact cardboard production on the rewinder.
2002
End of the use of railways.
AT THE HEART OF MODERNISATION
1992
Use of water in a closed circuit = zero discharge of water into the natural environment.
2006
Wastewater treatment plant (with methanisation treatment phase).
2008
New corrugator (3.3 m wide).
Commercialization of triple-flute board.
2011
FSC® certification.
2015
Biogas from the wastewater treatment plant burnt in the main boiler.
2016
ISO 9001 certification.
2017
Creation of Paleco®, our patented cardboard pallet.
April 2019
Acquisition of the Lacaux Group, adding to our national presence and industrial facilities (converting).
September 2019
Connection to the Flamoval heating network.
TOWARDS MASS PRODUCTION OF PACKAGING
September 2020
Start-up of the BOBST 924 flexo printing & folder-gluers - manufacturing of regular cases (0201).
2021
ISO 50001 certification.
2022
Cartonneries de Gondardennes becomes Cartonnerie Gondardennes with a new visual identity and for the CGW PACKAGING Group.
April 2022
Start-up of the Bobst Masterfold 230 - multi point gluer (manufacturing glued crash lock base, crash lock base, regular cases etc...) and a Göpfert G-CUT flat die-cutting machine (layer pads, dividers etc...).
February 2023
Start-up of the BOBST 820 flexo printing & folder-gluers - manufacturing of regular cases (0201).
June 2023
Formalization of the CSR approach, production of the 1st declaration of extra-financial performance (DEFP).
End 2023
Recovery of rainwater throughout the Wardrecques site.