The WEPA Group is a future-oriented family business operating throughout Europe which offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that provide a safe feeling of hygiene and contribute daily to the well-being of millions of people. We are among the three largest European manufacturers and lead the market in the production of hygiene paper from recycled fibres.
Turnover
around € 1.3 billion
approx. 4,000 employees
Locations
5 WEPA locations in Germany
2 WEPA locations in Italy
3 WEPA locations in France
1 WEPA location in Poland
1 WEPA location in the Netherlands
1 WEPA location in Great Britain
Technical equipment
21 paper machines
More than 90 automatic processing machines for rolled and folded tissue paper
Market shares
25% in Germany
approx. 8% in Europe
Products
Toilet paper, kitchen rolls, tissues, paper towels, napkins, centrefeed rolls, de-inked pulp, cleaning rolls, medical rolls, dispenser solutions
Ownership structure
100% family business
Managing Board
Martin Krengel (CEO)
Harm Bergmann-Kramer
Ralph Dihlmann
Andreas Krengel
Dr. Hendrik Otto
Supervisory Board
Dr. Hans-Joachim Körber (Chairman)
Wilken von Hodenberg
Dr. Hartmut Wurster
A paper machine is about as long as 2.5 tennis courts, i.e. about 60 metres.
A parent roll weighs on average 2.3 tons and winds roughly 50 km of paper.
To roll up a kitchen roll, our machine needs 1.2 seconds. That is also the amount of time for which the average user looks at a Facebook post.
If we were to stack all the packets of tissues produced per hour by our 5 processing lines in Kriebstein, the stack would be higher than the Matterhorn. The Matterhorn is 4,478 meters high.
A paper machine produces about 1,950 km of paper per day. This corresponds roughly to the distance from Munich to Athens.
With 21 paper machines, we produce around 780,000 tons of hygiene paper every year. This equals about 77 times the weight of the Eiffel Tower.
