orphan as no other articles link to it . please introduce links to this page from related articles ; try the find link tool for suggestions . january 2012 b ttenpapierfabrik gmund type gmbh & co. kg industry paper production founded 1829 founder johann nepomuk haas key people florian kohler products fine papers woodfree uncoated paper paper products number of employees approx . 120 divisions gmund lakepaper gmund retail website www.gmund.com company building the b ttenpapierfabrik gmund gmbh & co. kg is a paper manufacturer with its headquarters in gmund am tegernsee and about 120 employees . the company operates in papermaking in the sectors fine paper woodfree uncoated paper and paper products . gmund customers in about 70 countries . contents 1 history 2 products 3 ecology 4 external links history edit from the beginnings under the management of johann nepomuk haas founder of the company gmund started to produce fine hand made papers . the kohler family who has been running the company since 1904 continued this idea and also developed it further on to suit the times . johann nepomuk haas founded the paper mill in 1829 . he had the license to collect rags which you needed to produce paper . till 1850 paper was exclusively made from rags . in 1854 gregor fichtner took over responsibility for the business and extended it to 60 employees . he concentrated on producing hand made fine paper and supplying papers for official and government documentation . at that time gmund was purveyor to the bavarian royal court of munich . after the conflagration in 1860 gregor fichtner rebuilt the factory and installed in 1886 the first paper machine . it is still in full activity and therefore one of the oldest running machines in europe . in 1904 the paper mill was taken over by ludwig alois kohler an ancestor of today s owner . he had the revolutionary idea of producing coloured paper and he introduced a wide variety of different structures to the basic paper using felt markings and embossing calenders . ludwig a. kohler died 1921 when the bottom edge of his coat caught in the paper machine and he was dragged into the rotating drums . his nephew continued the business . during world war ii atypical papers such as map papers filter paper for gas masks photographic papers blackened with soot and black out paper were produced at gmund am tegernsee . in 1952 the factory was taken over by ludwig maximilian kohler 2004 and the fine paper segment was expanded . a second paper machine was installed by ludwig m. kohler in order to offer a bigger range of products and formats . at these days his son florian kohler runs the company . products edit the range consists of more than 25 different collections with about 100.000 product variations . gmund also produces customized products . ecology edit in july 2006 gmund papers has been certified by the fsc forest stewardship council nr . gfa coc 001370 . for the production of fsc certified papers gmund uses only fsc certified material and material from controlled cultivation . all non fsc certified materials are controlled according to the fsc standard for controlled wood fsc std 40 005 . external links edit gmund.com report in die welt gc online report in die welt am sonntag f rderer des ddc deutscher designer club retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title b ttenpapierfabrik gmund & oldid 743916597 categories manufacturing companies of germanymanufacturing companies established in 1829hidden categories orphaned articles from january 2012all orphaned articlespages using infobox company with unsupported parameters 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 in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 12 october 2016 at 01 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view