SIG Combibloc is one of the three large German manufacturers of beverage cardboards.

The beverage cardboard is not an invention today, but a development from the beginnings 20. Century. This is reflected also in the history of the company SIG Combibloc again.

Of CHASE MOUNTAIN over PKL to SIG Combibloc

In the year 1929 works, in Duesseldorf, submit the chase mountain a patent for the Perga packing. This is a packing product on wax paper basis for the many small filling up enterprises of the time at that time. However the initially successful development has a sudden end due to the economic and political crisis at the beginning of the 1930er-Jahre. The "“Perga packing"” the chase mountain AG experienced 2 after that. World war starting from the year 1950 a Wiedergeburt. Into the 1960ern it was in Western Europe the most common packing of their kind.

1958 created the chase mountain of works AG, due to constantly rising demand, in Linnich in the circle the paper and adhesive works Linnich GmbH (short: PKL), which takes over the manufacturing of the packing. Racking plant production remains with chase mountain in Duesseldorf. In the years starting from 1962 PKL introduced the "“Blocpak"” - system as well as the pertinent filling machines. A economical transport and the space-saving storage became ever more important. Therefore are based the mass of the cardboards on standardized euro-pallets. Laminating the cardboard with polyethylene plastic replaces the paraffin sealing.

1975 presented the company PKL their aseptisches, i.e. germ-free "“combibloc"” - system, which is used until today. Begun with packing for H-Milch and juices end of the 1980-he 1980 also such was added for soups, sauces, water, wine, pudding etc.

Today the PKL GmbH under the name SIG Combibloc GmbH firmiert and is with the Hauptwerk in Linnich, the packing work in Wittenberg and racking plant production in Neuss, as well as numerous packing works in other countries the largest division Swiss of the SIG of company.

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