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⭐️ German Packaging Award 2024 in the Sustainability category goes to Goldeimer, WILDPLASTIC®, Bischof+Klein and WEPA! 🏆   Together with Goldeimer, WILDPLASTIC®, and Bischof+Klein, WEPA, as the manufacturer of hygiene paper, designed the packaging for the well-known "social toilet paper" from Goldeimer 🤝 – packaging made from 50% wild plastic that is both hygienic and high quality. For years, WEPA has been the manufacturer of Goldeimer's toilet paper, producing it from recycled paper, and recently even from recycled cardboard. 📦   "Why wild plastic"? This refers to plastic waste that has so far been outside the recycling loop – for example, in illegal dumps, in nature, or on the streets. WILDPLASTIC® and local partners collect wild plastic in countries like India, Thailand, and Indonesia to give valuable raw materials a new purpose: a meaningful use in products like the new Goldeimer packaging. ♻️   Three years of development, four dedicated partners – and the result speaks for itself: Since February 2024, the Goldeimer packaging has provided a sustainable alternative in supermarkets. 🛒 A great contribution to environmental protection and a true example of a circular economy with social added value!

So proud of our Satino by WEPA team 🤩 for being honoured by the European Cleaning Journal with the European Cleaning & Hygiene Award 🏆 in the category „Sustainability - Best Practice (Manufacturer)“ 🌎📦

🌍 Team up and clean up! 🌍 Sustainability is one of our three core values at WEPA. We take responsibility. In our daily actions, we combine economic, ecological and social aspects of sustainability. And that's why we take part in World Clean Up Day every year with many WEPA colleagues at various locations to actively do something good for our environment. Our WEPA teams have already cleaned up public green spaces around our WEPA sites in Troyes (France), Lucca (Italy), Müschede (Germany) and Piechowice (Poland). A big thank you to everyone who took part and took the time to set an example!  There was a special surprise in Lucca! A kind gentleman gave our team a 14 kg watermelon 😮 as a thank you for our commitment to the environment. 🍉   What we give to nature often returns to us in unexpectedly beautiful ways!  And we keep going:  On September 30, the last Clean Up Day will take place in Mainz. We are looking forward to a strong team working together again.  #WeAreWEPA #together #CleanUpDay #togetherforabetterlife #healthandwellbeing

Hello, my name is Tim, I'm 22 years old and a passionate information technologist. I'm currently in the 2nd year of my apprenticeship as an IT specialist for application development.       🖥 What I like about computer science   I feel comfortable between the lines of program code. What do I enjoy most? Approaching and solving problems logically. The work never gets boring. In the end, nothing is more satisfying for me than seeing a bunch of disorganized zeros and ones working together creating something bigger.      ❓ IT specialist for application development Information technology is an incredibly diverse professional field. If you search for all the professions in this sector, the list is endless. New job titles are added every day, existing ones are renamed, regrouped or scrapped. Basically, the application developer deals with everything that has to do with software. This includes designing, planning, testing and then maintaining and further developing software. Many factors such as security, data protection, scalability and much more must be taken into account.       🙌 My apprenticeship at WEPA I can't imagine a better company to start my professional career in than WEPA. I do what I'm passionate about and I'm always learning to get better at it. My coaches support me with all kinds of topics and take me on different projects. From databases and interfaces to extension programming, everything is included. I particularly enjoy working with colleagues from other countries, as it helps me to improve my English and allows me to step out of my usual comfort zone from time to time. At WEPA, you are not just a personnel number, but actually a perceived human being who is involved in the business processes and who is taken into consideration.      #WeareWEPA #together #WEPApprentice

Gaining new perspectives and learning from each other at the WEPA Sustainability Days 💚 This week at our Sustainability Days, the commitment of our European Leadership Team to our sustainability transformation was tangible. A programme full of inspiring perspectives, intense discussions and joint activities involved our European Leadership Team and valuable partners from across the value chain. The live format as a platform for exchange and collaboration helped to broaden everyone's horizons through inspiring presentations and open discussions, while developing next steps for an even more sustainable future at WEPA. Over 150 participants received valuable input from external experts and took part in hands-on workshops at our WEPA plant in Mainz. The results were immediately tangible, as the event concept not only enabled participants to deepen their own knowledge, but also generated enthusiasm that our leaders will now pass on to the WEPA teams and the entire organisation. The Sustainability Days are a platform for sharing and networking around sustainability, learning from each other and laying the foundation for long-term positive change throughout our organisation and value chain. #WeAreWEPA #SustainabilityDays #LeadershipDays #Sustainability #togetherforabetterfuture

Behind the tissue: Michael Eckart, Leader Maintenance   I grew up just one and a half kilometres from the paper mill in Kriebstein (DE) in the small village of Höfchen. That had an impact on me in two ways – I’ve really treasured the nature here since I was a child, and the paper mill’s been my professional home for 34 years.   After leaving school I wanted to study hydraulic engineering but changed to paper technology, which, as I now know, was a good decision. Following my degree course in Dresden I joined VEB Papierfabrik Kriebstein as a technologist in 1990 – that same year the company had been newly founded as Kübler & Niethammer Papierfabrik Kriebstein AG after being acquired again by the Niethammer family.   That company also started working with WEPA in 1990, and setting up a joint venture in the form of a joint production plant for handkerchiefs laid the foundation for the future cooperation. In 2001 the hygiene paper division of Kübler & Niethammer was completely taken over by WEPA, which meant I also transferred to WEPA. With the full integration of Kübler & Niethammer in 2023, my ‘old’ colleagues from Kübler & Niethammer are now with me again after more than twenty years.   Over the years I played an important role in restructuring the plant and the new construction of both paper machines, and in 2006 I became the technical head of maintenance. Together with the employees from this area we formed a strong team, so a lot of projects could be developed and carried out. “We turned everything completely upside down,” as they say.   At WEPA I can also put into practice my keenness for voluntary nature conservation: privately I’m involved in amphibian conservation, I’m the chairman of our hunting club and I also hunt myself. I also support NABU (a nature conservation association) with ringing birds of prey, which have nested in the old water tower on our company premises for many years. Thanks to the WEPA Foundation we installed nesting boxes for swifts on a new building, as well as kestrel boxes and barn owl boxes.   And nature conservation doesn’t just sound good, it tastes good as well: people say the honey from our WEPA bees is the best in the region... #WeareWEPA #together #career

Made in Germany - Made by Vielfalt 🌍🤝 In der Vielfalt liegt die Stärke unseres europäischen Familienunternehmens. Bei WEPA wird Vielfalt als Teil unserer Kultur aktiv gelebt. Menschen aus über 50 Nationen arbeiten heute bei uns Hand in Hand und geben täglich ihr Bestes als ein starkes Team. Die gegenseitige Inspiration und das voneinander Lernen sind unverzichtbare Treiber unseres Fortschritts – sowohl als Unternehmen als auch als Gesellschaft. Deshalb sind wir, gemeinsam mit über 40 namhaften deutschen Familienunternehmen, Teil der Initiative „Made in Germany. Made by Vielfalt“. Denn Vielfalt ist nicht nur ein wesentlicher Treiber für Wachstum und wirtschaftlichen Erfolg, sondern auch das Fundament unserer Demokratie. 👇 Hier findet ihr weitere Informationen: https://lnkd.in/eVMth7gh #MadeByVielfalt #ErfolgDurchVielfalt #ZukunftDurchVielfalt #MiteinanderVielfältig #WeareWEPA

Our professional brand Satino by WEPA is now proud sustainability partner of SC Preußen Münster ! 📣️   Together, Satino and Preußen Münster will enhance stadium hygiene with innovative Satino PureSoft products. As part of the partnership, Satino is supporting the football club with a comprehensive hygiene concept for the stadium and washrooms and is collaborating on various projects to promote sustainability.   Both sides are excited to set new standards and make a positive impact. Here’s to a great season! 💚

WEPA Team Mumbai: A strategic building block of our digital transformation journey 🌎 A WEPA team in India? This may sound unusual for a European family business at first, but this step is very right and important for us. We want to be at the forefront of technology and innovation in our industry and work as efficiently as possible. Digitalisation plays a crucial role in this. In particular, we see great opportunities in artificial intelligence, which can make us even more successful as a company in the long term. To do this, we need real specialists, the best in the field. We can find them in particular in one place in the world that stands for this expertise: India. That's why Tobias Hundhausen and his team came up with the idea of a WEPA Digital Engineering Centre (DEC) in Mumbai. Mitesh Patel, Head of the DEC, leads a team of 20 local technology and IT experts. 🚀 WEPA CFO Ralph Dihlmann, who is responsible for IT/Digital at the company, was also able to meet the team in person in Mumbai. Despite being almost 8,000 kilometres apart, the DEC team is working closely with colleagues in Europe on key projects in artificial intelligence, data analytics and smart factory technologies. "As we embrace the digital era, our investment in the Digital Engineering Centre in Mumbai underscores WEPA's commitment to innovation and leadership in the paper industry. The remarkable work being done here reinforces our position as pioneers in leveraging technology for our strategic objectives," says Ralph Dihlmann. Follow us now for more content on our digital transformation journey. #WeareWEPA #together #transformation