paper owner republic tobacco country france introduced 1822 related brands job markets worldwide previous owners bollor technologies registered as a trademark in 1923 website www.ocb.net ocb is a brand of rolling papers owned by republic tobacco . contents 1 name 2 history 3 in popular culture 4 references name edit ocb stand for odet cascadec bollor . 1 odet a location in ergu gab ric finist re on the banks of the odet river which flows through quimper where in 1822 the first paper mill was founded . cascadec a nearby location in sca r where another paper mill was located . it was rented in 1893 and bought 24 years later in 1917 . bollor from the bollor family which founded the company . history edit ocb traces its origins to the opening of a paper mill near the odet river in western france in 1822 by nicolas le marie 1790 1870 ren corentin bollor 1793 1838 and his older brother guillaume claude bollor . 2 3 the 2nd factory was created in 1893 the main function of this factory was to specialize in the manufacturing of smoking rolling papers . 3 4 the company purchased the casadec paper mill in 1917 having rented it for the previous 24 years . it initially produced letter copy paper but later began making cigarette paper . as cigarettes began to grow in popularity in france the mill focused most of its resources to produce cigarette paper while letter paper cotton paper muslin paper and other paper products became secondary . 2 the ocb name was first used in 1918 when the first packs of ocb papers were produced . 2 3 the ocb trademark was registered at the national institute of industrial property in 1923 . an 8 day celebration of the company s centennary was organized by ren bollor in 1922 . the le coq francais rolling paper trademark was launched in 1923 . 2 in 1930 two bollor paper mills produced nearly 2000 tons of paper on reels and 86 million packs of cigarette paper . 90 % of the produce was exported primarily to the united states . 2 3 during nazi occupation of france production dropped with only mill operating at 20 % of its production capacity . the company was unable continue exporting to the united states . in 1938 french engineers from the company helped set up a mill in north carolina to meet demand in the united states . 2 the company expanded its facilities in 1951 and 1960 began manufacturing bible paper tea bags and insulating paper for condensers . vincent bollor assumed control of the company in 1981 and founded bollor technologies . 2 in 1987 vincent bollor purchased competitor job from perpignan france . the company launched ocb premium rolling papers in 1999 . 2 in 2000 vincent bollor sold an 81 % stake to in the company to its main american customer since the 1960s don levin owner of the american republic tobacco group . 2 levin renamed the company to republic technologies . since july 2000 ocb is a brand of republic technologies part of the republic group . in 2006 bollor sold his remaining 19 % share of the company to levin . the ocb xpert range of rolling papers was launched in 2004 . ocb organic made of organic hemp paper was launched in 2009 . ocb biodegradeable filters were launched in 2010 . ocb virgin rolling papers were launched in 2013 and ocb ultimate in 2015 . 2 in popular culture edit in 1991 cathy claret recorded a spanish song called bollore from the album sun y locura an ode to ocb papers . the song was later covered by raimundo amador and bb king . in 1993 french rock and reggae band billy ze kick released the song ocb on their first album billy ze kick et les gamins en folie . the song expands the acronym ocb to occis carton blind slain armoured cardboard and references the consumption of cannabis in a group . ocb is a song by french rapper mc jean gab 1 on his album ma vie my life released in 2003 . references edit http www.thehindu.com news cities kozhikode now drug abuse too goes online article6997973.ece a b c d e f g h i j ocb . www.ocb.net . retrieved 2016 03 04 . a b c d http www.rollingpapersexpress.com rolling paper brands ocb rolling papers.html http www.grasscity.com us en brands rolling paper brands ocb retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ocb rolling paper & oldid 715619665 categories cigarette rolling papers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran aisitalianonederlands edit links this page was last modified on 16 april 2016 at 23 43 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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