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More than 45 years as a leader in Spain's cardboard packaging sector

Since its founding in 1973, Grupo La Plana has become a true model in the Spanish sector for the manufacture of corrugated and compact cardboard packaging.

 

Our commitment to and engagement with the customer and our constant devotion to sustainability and innovation have allowed us to attract new business opportunities and grow in new markets and regions.

Grupo La Plana

Our History

Founding of Cartonajes La Plana, S.L.

1973

  • Manufacture of corrugated cardboard 
  • New facilities in Logroño

1980

1990

  • Number of facilities doubled
  • Staff increase
Second corrugator and first cogeneration plant

1995

  • ISO 9001
  • GRUPO LA PLANA was created with new factories in Cenicero (La Rioja) and Onda (Castellón)

1998

  • Second generation
  • Family protocol

2000

2002

Automatic pressing warehouse in the Packaging Betxí plant

2004

2007

Extension of Encarnsa (Packaging Onda)
by 30,000m²
  • BRC-IOP food safety certification
  • Significant investment in machinery and automation in Encarnsa (Packaging Onda)
  • Participation in the Economy for the Common Good movement

2014

2015

Company of the year
Common Good Balance Sheet

2016

Purchase of the UNIGRAF production factory (Packaging Igualada)

2017

  • New expansion in Encarnsa (Packaging Onda) with a new factory, totalling 63.000 m²
  • Economy for the Common Good Balance Sheet

2019

2020

  • Consolidation of the Group’s corporate identity
  • New nomenclature for production factories
  • Opening of the Grupo La Plana Innovation Centre (InnLab)
  • Purchase of the Group’s 5th production factory in Madrid: Primera Línea Visual (PLV) 

2021