Run by a transition team since its takeover by the German investment fund Mutares in May 2021, the cardboard mill located in Valgelon-La Rochette in Savoie today presents its new management and reaffirms its ambitions.
Pierre-Yves Guégan of the Mutares group has thus given up his place as president and director of La Rochette Cartonboard to François Martin, who has been president since the beginning of the year, and to Christophe Lloret Linares, general manager since August 1st.
The plant specializing in the production of virgin fiber-based air packaging boards, which employs 316 people and has achieved a turnover of 125 million euros in 2021, continues its ambitious investment policy initiated last year.
A development strategy based on three pillars
The new general manager of La Rochette Cartonboard, Christophe Lloret Linares, has the ambition to make La Rochette Cartonboard a major player in the carton packaging industry.
"In a context where companies are looking to reduce their environmental footprint, packaging will increasingly involve paperboard, especially in the food and health sectors. With its experience in these fields, its agility and its close relationship with its customers, La Rochette Cartonboard SAS has the potential to become the privileged board producer of the packaging industry he says.
To become this preferred board producer, La Rochette Cartonboard is working on three main areas: "the development of customer intimacy" operational and energy efficiency, and product and usage innovation.
A 9 million euro investment plan is being implemented. Six million euros are dedicated to operational and energy efficiency with the start-up in March 2023 of the new turbine of the biomass boiler of the plant and the development of photovoltaic and hydroelectric.
