To visit Cartaseta in Gretzenbach

If you know the name of the solothurner company, this is not the case: you can hold a product of Gretzenbacher Cartaseta AG in your hand. I think it is a tag. The Cartaseta AG is a company with the affiliated Tela-Fabrik in Niederbipp, a repairer of hygiene paper in Switzerland – from Falthandtüchern über Toilettenpapier or Telarollen in its Taschentüchern.

A product made by people: All retailers are connected to the customer, or in a direct way – the companies that work in the hotel industry, in industry, in the kitchen, in the Bund and the Canton. «Bis ins Bundeshaus», said Roberto Todaro, Managing Director of both companies, at a factory visit in Gretzenbach.

220 employed in Niederbipp, 120 in Gretzenbach. Since the company name is not so present, it is all connected to the private owner who produces the own brands for the retailer. In the drawers, man – taken from Tela – does not work with his own brands.

Ortstermin in Gretzenbach. On the large surface, the Atomkraftwerk is lower than Zellstoff, in the interior of the paper company. The paper machine is clean and tidy. In the war that took place in 1982, 2000 and 2009, the war would take place with new techniques. “Papier machines since 80 years ago,” says Todaro. Sieben Tage die Woche, 24 Stunden lang, laufen de Maschinen. Of the 160,000 tons of hygienic paper, which was widely consumed in Switzerland, Cartaseta and Tela provide 74,000 tons of hair.

Back in the factory: The paper machine “sucks” coarse paper rolls, so-called mother rolls, out. As a machine continues, the layers are glued together and the rolls are cut. A fun fact for consumers in the Rand: printing on the toilet or household paper is never in Marketing purposes. A set holds the sheet together. The paper cannot be processed properly.

Gerade, two-layer toilet paper is produced, an Ausnahme. “Change the toilet paper quickly,” says Todaro. Die Schweizer is an impressive skill. And if the paper is so high, it should be viewed on the professional market: Wer ins Restaurant is or ins Hotel, erwartet dort in der Regel diejenige Qualität, die is een zuhause schätzt. It may happen that you repair paper.

The paper industry was a bigger war in the industry in the Canton of Solothurn. It is possible that the names of the paper mill and the cellulose attisholz have disappeared. “The canton is after all for a Hochburg of the Swiss paper industry”, says Todaro. Neben Tela and Cartaseta are a source of Wellpappenhersteller Model in Niedergösgen, the Swiss Quality Paper in Balsthal or the Cardboard producer Bourquin in Oensingen Zeugen dafür.

Who is it Tela und Cartaseta gelungen, trotz Schweizer Löhnen und trotz geringen Margen am Markt zu bleiben? Toilet rolls and household paper are products that have become platz. Das heisst: Die Logistikkosten decreased vergleichsweise grim in Weight. Order the Carrots Roberto Todaros:

“The lower and transportation costs are a cost item for the market.”

When the small margins in the shop can no longer make any effort, the toilet rolls can be transported over hundreds of kilometres. The Konkurrenz is located on the border of the Grenze, in Süddeutschland, in Alsace or in Norditalien.

In recent years, the German family of Cartaseta (cf. Kasten) can still use the market power in the Switzerland region: 2021 is the history of the Tela in Niederbipp. The work stands like an uncertain future. The world group Kimberley Clark wants to close its harmful comparatively small Swiss location. The production in the Switzerland war in comparison with other works to teuer.

How did I continue with the Cartaseta-Besitzerin, or would I like to take it over? Geschäftsführer Todaro did not last long, he will die. For the Grosskonzern war signal Niederbipper Werk eines unter fell. Cartasetas are offered daily at the Schweizer Markt over time. Betrug der Exportanteil früher 80 Prozent, so liegt heute bei 20. «Tela ergänzt us sehr gut», said Roberto Todaro. Zum Sortiment refers to Servietten, Kosmetik- or Nastücher. Gleichzeitig behind the company, the Kurze Transportwege was bright.

One of the themes that the Swissness ein Pfeiler der Cartaseta-Strategie is, adapts the surrender: the Altpapier is used up for both companies – 43,000 tons per year – in Niederbipp. While the laundry is closed, the word will be burned, the Abwärme would be in the game and zum Teil was damned that the Gewächshäuser one after the Gemüseproduzenten gehizt.

The companies are working as recycling pioneers in the industry. The redevelopment war begins with starting a better paper quality – if you can choose one or eight other paper phases – if you want to reset the product.

The nuclear power plant Gösgen is impressively positioned next to the Cartaseta factory in the sky, visible from every corner of the factory as well. For production, we are looking at the process steam from energy giants. The increase in electricity costs will take a long time and it will become milder, as Todaro. Although the consequences of Covid-19 at the beginning of the Ukraine wars would be on the duration of rising energy prices, while criticism began on the country’s transport, the European logistics price was a big lie.

Since the material price in the future is always increasing, it is a good idea to look into the future. “Make sure that you invest consistently, are an efficient and competitive product.” In the last 20 years, this was around 55 million francs. “We are self-financed to the tune of 100 percent,” Todaro concludes.

In 2026, an article for the roll-verarbeitung was completed, for several millions of francs. The Schweiz will also try to work with toilet paper, when there is no longer a pandemic, when the Regale is leerkauft. “The impact of the Covid pandemic quadruples itself,” says Todaro. “We can never forget that production.”