« Vivons Bois » exhibition – october 31, november 3 – Bordeaux

Wooden construction exhibition with a hundred of exhibitors (architects, carpenters, joiners, constructors, material/flooring/insulating traders). 

Gascogne present at Forexpo, the European trade fair for silviculture and logging on June 11-13 at Technopole Montesquieu (33) ; see our booth

 

Gascogne sponsor of "L'escale du livre" show in Bordeaux April 1-6 by providing 15000 100% PEFC certified paper sacks

 

Gascogne attended the 1st European forestry meeting in Dax (France -40) on May 7-11 2008

Gascogne Wood Products at "Salon Européen du bois et de l'habitat durable" (European show of wood and sustainable home improvement) in Grenoble (France) April 3-6 ; Carrefour International du Bois  (International Wood show) in Nantes (France) May 28-30 ; Salon de la prescription du Bâtiment (show for influencers in buildingship) June 3-5

 

 

 Gascogne Wood attended the Japan Home Show - November 14 to 16, Tokyo (Japan)

Gascogne attended BATIMAT, international building exhibition - November 5 to 10, 2007 – Paris – France. See our booth

 

 Gascogne Wood : M. Bricolage exhibition, September 25-27 (Paris), Weldom exhibition october 7-8 (Paris), BRICO BATI exhibition (Castorama) - October 23 to 26 in Lille (France), MADERALIA - November 7 to 10, Valencia (Spain)

 

 Cenpac : SIHRA, international catering, hotel trade and food exhibition -  January 20 to 24, 2007 in Lyon - France.

 

 Gascogne Sack attended the «Technical Days of the Morrocan milling trade»,  June 28 and 29, 2007 in Casablanca - Morocco.

Gascogne provides a 100% PEFC certified Natural Kraft paper bag originating from sustainably managed forests to this festival held from 24 to 27 january.
This naturally environmentaly friendly bag is printed using water-ink.
Perfectly biodegradable and recyclable, it is highly resilient and reusable several times.

 Cenpac's new e-commerce site is on line: http://www.cenpac.fr/

 

 

  A new website for Gascogne Paper: www.gascognepaper.com

Available in French and English, this website aims to present the division's products and markets as well as environmental questions.

 

Aside from information about the division and its production process, it highlights sustainable development and innovation matters in its different sections.

In order to fight against preconceived ideas, several educational messages towards general public about the benefits of Kraft paper illustrate different pages of this website. They explain for example, why by using natural kraft paper, you are being kind to the forest !

 

      

 

 

 Visit Gascogne Sack new website : www.gascognesack.com

 

 March 2007  

 

 Papeteries de Gascogne (Paper division) changes its corporate name and becomes Gascogne Paper.

 

 Gascogne Paper and  Gascogne Sack are participating in the French printing and graphical communication federation's (FICG) « l'environnement, c'est durablement imprimé »  (sustainable printing for the environment) campaign.

This promotion, which will close at the Angoulême festival in March 2008, is based on a comics trip project to explain the environment-related improvements already and yet to be made at each stage in the graphics chain. The six stages identified are : forestry management, paper manufacturing, paper recycling, ink manufacturing, pricing and distribution.

 

Gascogne has manufactured 60,000 100 % PEFC-certified Kraft paper bags, a green packaging solution (printed using water-based ink, highly resilient and reusable several times), for the Salon du Livre (book fair). These bags are being distributed by a large number of booksellers in France with all purchases of the new Luuna comics trip album.

 

 Cenpac, Gascogne's packaging distribution business (products and services), has adopted a new logo and a new « Packaging Solutions » signature.

 

 

 

 Sopal (Laminates division) changes its corporate name and becomes Gascogne Laminates.

 

 

 Winning of the golden Flexostar (category: multi-layer packaging for process flexo paper sacks) by Mimizan plant with a Flexo printed sack for Fressnaps (Select Gold sack)

Winning of the Golden Flexostar OR  (category: packaging paper for food) by Jarnac plant  with a 4-layers Flexo printed laminate for Unilever (Gravy Granules bag – Knorr brand).

 

 March 2007

 

 Winning of the « Grand Prix Cyrel » trophee, sacks category, by Gascogne Sack France.

The international “Grands Prix Cyrel” awarded by DuPont reward the best work done with the flexographic printing processes.