About Zanders

Zan­ders brings ex­per­tise and in­no­va­tion to the man­u­fac­ture of high qual­ity spe­cial­ity pa­pers and boards, de­vel­oped es­pe­cially for ap­pli­ca­tions that in­clude la­bels, pack­ag­ing and graph­ics

Our tra­di­tion – the high­est qual­ity

Founded in 1829 by Johann Wilhelm Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach near Cologne (Germany), the company still op­er­ates the Gohrsmühle pa­per mill there to­day with around 380 em­ploy­ees. The product range includes the premium brand Chromolux, introduced in 1958 – one of the world’s leading paper brands.

Our history

The Zanders pa­per mill re­mained in the hands of the Zanders fam­ily for around 150 years. Con­stantly grow­ing, Zanders ex­panded its pro­duc­tion at the Gohrsmühle mill into art pa­per in 1895 and in­tro­duced Chromolux in 1958. Fol­low­ing its list­ing on the stock ex­change in 1980, International Paper became majority shareholder in 1989. In 2002 the Finnish fresh for­est fi­bre board man­u­fac­turer M-real ac­quired the company. When the M-real group was rebranded Metsä Board in 2012, the company’s name was changed to Metsä Board Zanders GmbH.

In May 2015, Mu­nich-based hold­ing com­pany mu­tares AG ac­quired the com­pany, which once again pro­duced its high qual­ity grades of pa­per un­der the name of Zanders GmbH. On 1 De­cem­ber 2018, a Scan­di­na­vian in­vestor group led by Terje Haglund ac­quired the com­pany, which has since been re­named Zanders Pa­per GmbH.

Expertise and products for each segment

Zanders provides printers, converters and brand owners all over the world its wide expertise for high quality specialty papers and boards for labels, packaging and graphic applications. The company ex­clu­sively uses raw ma­te­ri­als from sus­tain­ably cul­ti­vated forestry op­er­a­tions and there­fore ful­fills the FSC re­quire­ments. Zanders pro­vides spe­cialised so­lu­tions for a wide va­ri­ety of seg­ments while con­sis­tently main­tain­ing the high­est qual­ity in terms of tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics and fin­ish­ing op­tions, as well as prod­uct safety. It meets the re­quire­ments of man­u­fac­tur­ers of bev­er­ages, in­clud­ing spir­its, sparkling wine, wine, wa­ter and beer; gro­cery and lux­ury food prod­ucts; to­bacco prod­ucts, as well as phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals and cos­met­ics. Its po­ten­tial end-uses range from high-end to stan­dard prod­ucts, in­clud­ing spe­cialised seg­ments such as in­di­vid­ual craft beer brew­eries.

Management