From its earliest days , themes of innovation and constant expansion have threaded through its story . Within its first five years , whilst operating as a merchant , the company built a further three halls , a workshop , a dispatch center with an ever-growing fleet of vehicles and vastly expanded its workforce . During this period , Zerhusen also started to implement
. . . the team was achieving around 250,000 square meters of corrugated cardboard per day
“ its own form of processing . The company was able to obtain largeformat , corrugated cardboard from other businesses for free , in the form of return boxes or goods from insolvency estates that would otherwise go to waste . It would then cut these down using a bandsaw and sell them on for a profit – proving to be a very lucrative addition to the model .
Major evolutions
In 1993 , Zerhusen purchased its first large-scale processing machine , which marked its progression into a processor . From this point onwards , the company started buying in raw corrugated cardboard that it could process into finished packaging and , due to the existing customer base , it was able to go straight into production . The following decade saw further growth and reinvestment in the forms of two more production lines , an entire product-development department , three more operations halls , a vast range of new equipment and even an early recycling initiative . The purchase of a new Paal paper press allowed the company to reuse what would otherwise have
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