QUALITY, TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT About 50 years ago, an entrepreneur started a new venture, Cartiere del Garda, with one production line and 100 people. Nowadays this is one of the most respected paper mills producing wood-free coated products in Italy, commercialised on both the domestic and the international markets. Industry Europe’s Barbara Rossi finds out more.
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he company, which as its name suggests, is located by Lake Garda, in northern Italy (specifically the company is based in Riva del Garda, located within the Trento county), where both the headquarters and the paper mill can be found, has belonged to the Lecta Group since 1997. The Lecta Group, as well as owning Cartiere del Garda, also comprises France-based Condat and Spain’s Torraspapel, and is an international paper manufac-
turer ranking second largest in Europe for production of coated wood-free paper. Cartiere Del Garda’s tenets are quality, environmental friendliness, social responsibility and technological innovation. In fact, Cartiere del Garda, which produces wood free coated paper sheets and reels with excellent printability, offers products of high quality standards at a competitive rate, a factor which has led to its success on the market. The main technologi-
cal feature is blade-on-blade coating, creating matt and gloss papers with an extremely smooth surface and high printability. The range of products on offer includes GardaMatt Art, mainly used for top-quality publishing and advertising work, GardaGloss Art mainly used for advertising and publishing work, GardaCover Hi-Fi mainly destined for top-quality magazine covers and commercial printing, and GardaPat 13, a unique product which Industry Europe 185
