Brief History of Kohila Paper Factory

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1983 Local landlord opens a sawmill in Kohila

1903 Groundwood and in

1907 paper production was started

1992 Finnish paper manufacturer UPM and local Kohila Paberivabrik establish a new enterprise named Kohila Paber AS and envelope production was started up 1990's

1993 Index and Swedish file production started up

1998 Lindegaard ASA buys 100% of shares of the company

1999-2000

New production lines for index sheets installed

-cardboard factory in Põlva started up

-manufacturing of PP pockets, flat files, lever arch files, presentation binders and ring binders set in motion

2002 Injection molding production started up

2003 Smead Manufacturing Company becomes the owner of the company

2008 Smead Europe BV management buyout, company renamed Atlanta Office Products

2009 30 April Atlanta Office Products shuts down Kohila factory

2009 September 16 KP Factory starts Kohila factory



KP Factory was established in 2009 to continue office supplies production in Kohila. KP Factory is a member of an international office supplies trading concern Charlot. KP Factory provides customers solutions in organizing by offering wide assortment of high quality office and school products and flexible logistic solutions.