LZ: The paper mill in Perlen is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Yet the end of what is now Switzerland's last paper mill was once almost sealed.

FuW: Always something new - that is the recipe for success of Chemie + Papier Holding, which is over two hundred years old.

Luzerner Zeitung: The industrial group from Perlen achieved record results last year. In the paper sector, CPH is increasingly becoming the top dog.

Luzerner Zeitung: Until 2002, the Lucerne-based CPH Group produced sulfuric acid in the canton of Aargau. A sustainable wood industry operation is now to be built on the former company site in Full-Reuenthal.

Annabelle: 700 kilograms. This much waste is produced in Switzerland per year and per capita. What happens to it? Where do all the cans, the paper, the broken glass end up? A somewhat different travel report.

FuW: The industrial group expects sales of well over 700 million Swiss francs for the current fiscal year and is therefore raising its forecast.

awp Finanznachrichten: Thanks to a good order situation and higher selling prices, CPH Chemie + Papier significantly improved sales and profits in the first half of the year. The Group is accordingly optimistic for the full year 2022.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung: A good order situation and higher sales prices are highly favorable for CPH Chemie + Papier Holding. After a good first half-year, the industrial group raises its profit forecast for 2022.

Finanz und Wirtschaft: For the first time since 2019, the Paper Division is earning more money.

Radio SRF 4: Paper prices are rising in Switzerland. And massively so. This also has an impact on the media industry. Newspapers and magazines are becoming more expensive to produce.

Finanz und Wirtschaft: In the fiscal year 2021, CPH Chemie + Papier Holding (CPH) posted significantly higher sales following the Covid-related slump and almost returned to its pre-crisis level. However, the Group had to contend with higher raw material costs. Nevertheless, management is confident for 2022.

SonntagsZeitung: The CEO of the CPH Group in Perlen, Lucerne, is "very interested" in building one of the planned new large gas-fired power plants on his site. Other sites are also interested.

SBB Cargo: Perlen in the canton of Lucerne is home to what is now Switzerland's only paper mill. A visit to the site provides an insight into the paper cycle, in which the freight railroad also plays an important role.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Due to supply bottlenecks, newspapers in Switzerland are temporarily thinner.

Finanz und Wirtschaft: The industrial group is feeling cost pressure in the Paper and Packaging divisions. Waste paper in particular remains expensive.

Blick: The online shopping boom during the pandemic is causing problems for Swiss waste paper recyclers. International competition is leading to a shortage of raw materials and skyrocketing prices.

Finanz und Wirtschaft: Significantly higher costs for recovered paper cause CPH to increase prices. The capacity surplus for newsprint is expected to decrease as of 2022.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Due to cut-throat competition in the paper business, CPH intends to focus more on the chemicals and packaging sectors.

Swiss National Television SRF: 22 cantons have submitted their concepts for Covid mass testings. Lucerne is one of them. The CPH Group companies at the Perlen site participate in a pilot project.

Finanz und Wirtschaft: The business with newsprint continues to erode. As a consequence, CPH's Paper Division is expected to see increasing losses. Thanks to efficient manufacturing facilites, CPH remains competitive.

Luzerner Zeitung: The IV Awards, presented in Lucerne for the eighth time, go to Perlen Papier and BRC.

Pack Aktuell – Together with Vinyl Plus, Perlen Packaging is committed to more sustainability in the PVC industry. In view of this, the two organizations have organized a webinar on the topic.

Le Temps – Every year, the Swiss population disposes of a million tons waste paper. More than half of which finds a new life in Perlen Papier's factory.

The Market - The Market searches for cheap quality stocks on a monthly basis. CPH Chemie + Papier is one of the new entries.

Finanz und Wirtschaft - Packaging activities increased significantly in the first half of 2020.

The corona crisis has dampened the prospects on the M&A market. Peter Schildknecht, CEO of the CPH Group, sees rather increased opportunities for buyers with the current high level of uncertainties in the market, as he explains in an interview with Oaklins M&A Outlook Switzerland.

Moneycab - Peter Schildknecht, CEO of the CPH Group talks about the effects of the corona pandemic on the three divisions.

Radio SRF 1 – CPH Chemie + Papier Holding has to provide less money for the clean-up of the lake bed at the former production site on Lake Zurich.

Luzerner Zeitung - Lucerne-based Chemie + Papier Holding is able to cope with the increasing pressure in the paper market, explains CEO Peter Schildknecht.

Berner Zeitung - The price of waste paper stands on a multi-year low. If the price continues to fall, the disposal of paper is subject to charges - same as with cardboard.

Luzerner Zeitung - In the special "Top-Arbeitgeber der Zentralschweiz", the CPH Group is presented at the location in Perlen as an exciting employer and as an innovative production company.

awp Finanznachrichten - The Chemie + Papier Holding (CPH) is determined to reduce its dependence on the paper business.

Finanz und Wirtschaft - CPH's paper business has been stagnating for a long time. This makes the other two divisions all the more important. The company has a lot to offer here.

Rütner – CPH-Chemie + Papier Holding AG has been producing deuterated products for 45 years. In 2018, the product segment of Zeochem AG moved to a new location in Rüti, Zurich.

Luzerner Zeitung – The CPH Group increased sales and profit in the first-half period of 2019 and now holds the requisite product licenses for China.

TV Tele 1 - Each person in Switzerland consumes more than 100 kg of paper every year. The TV programme "Unterwegs" reports on paper consumption and what happens to the waste paper.

Finanz & Wirtschaft - Higher paper prices contribute to set records.

FuW - CPH's Paper Division operates the newest and most productive newsprint machine in Europe. A photo portrait.

Wochenzeitung – The Perlen paper factory is home to Heidi, the last paper machine in Switzerland that is still producing newsprint. Heidi makes the paper that the Wochenzeitung (WOZ) is printed on. We went to visit.

Moneycab.com – An interview with Peter Schildknecht, CEO of CPH Chemie + Papier Holding.

Le Temps – Shares in the Perlen (Lucerne)-based CPH Group have seen their value rise over 50% this year, thanks to strong paper prices and following expansions throughout the group’s business segments.

Luzerner Zeitung – Nowhere is CPH Chemie + Papier Holding AG seeing more rapid growth than in its Packaging Division. The company is now entering new territory in the medicinal technology sector, too.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung – After several lean years, the Paper Division strategy starts to reap rewards.

Pack Aktuell – In a genuine innovation within the dry powder inhalation segment, Perlen Packaging has unveiled the Perlamed Blistair, the world’s first thermoformed single-dose inhaler. The device consists of two thermoformed films that securely seal the active substance inside.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung/Tages-Anzeiger/Zürichsee-Zeitung – Several articles in the regional media and beyond have marked the final departure of the CPH Group from its original Uetikon site after 200 years of industrial activity.

SRF 1 (TV) – Amid claims that the electricity market no longer works, resulting in excessively low electricity prices, Swiss TV’s Schweiz Aktuell daily current affairs programme in the week of 30 April to 4 May looks at various issues within the Swiss energy sector: why low electricity prices put certain supplies at risk, how hydro power is being dramatically affected by climate change, how Switzerland plans to replace its nuclear energy sources and how much “embodied energy” is hidden in various features of our lives

Finanz und Wirtschaft – While fewer and fewer print products are being consumed, newsprint is currently in short supply, with no relief in sight.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung – Up until only recently, sizeable overcapacities were a predominant feature of the newsprint manufacturing sector. But a wave of consolidations has transformed the industry landscape. Newsprint is becoming a rare commodity, and its prices are rising again.

SRF Börse (TV) – The CPH Group is back in the black, thanks to its Chemistry and Packaging Divisions. And while the Paper Division is still posting an operating loss, Group CEO Peter Schildknecht is confident that this segment, too, will recover in 2018.

SRF 1 (radio) – The Cham Paper Group is abandoning its paper manufacturing to focus solely on real estate. This makes the paper factory in Perlen (Lucerne) the only remaining paper production plant in Switzerland. What actions has it been taking to secure its survival in this fiercely contested market?

Le Temps – The shares of the CPH Group have risen 60% in value over the past year. CPH is a family concern, too, that started out in the chemicals sector 200 years ago, has since added the production of newsprint and magazine paper and now also manufactures packaging films. Switzerland’s last paper producer aims to be a cost leader. A pearl based in Perlen?

Ecopaper – By acquiring the recovered paper volumes of Utzenstorf AG, Perlen Papier AG is stabilizing its raw materials supply channels and increasing the proportion of its recovered paper that it obtains from domestic sources. The move will not, however, raise its total paper production volumes, says CEO Klemens Gottstein.

L'Agefi – The CPH Group is striving for cost leadership in the newsprint and high-end magazine paper segments. The Group is also growing its Chemistry and Packaging Divisions through greater differentiation.

Luzerner Zeitung – The CPH Group is well positioned with its paper, packaging and chemicals production businesses. It’s one of the winners in the market consolidation, too. It has just one problem: finding enough personnel for its Perlen paper factory.

Luzerner Zeitung – In acquiring paper manufacturer Utzenstorf, the Perlen paper factory has given itself access to cheaper raw materials. It’s good news for the Paper Division of the CPH Group in its battle with tough and predatory international competition.

NZZ am Sonntag – Switzerland’s last newsprint factory is a major player in Europe’s paper manufacturing sector. And it’s all thanks to the company’s courageous shareholder family and state-of-the-art technology.

Zürcher Oberländer – The Lucerne-based CPH industrial group is planning to establish a new HQ for its Chemistry Division on the Joweid site in Rüti. The new location is ideal in logistics terms, says the division’s CEO.

CEO Magazine – Perlen’s new film-coating facilities in the emerging markets make it the whole package for pharmaceutical customers.

Aargauer Zeitung – Chemie Uetikon has ambitious plans for Fullerfeld. And the local municipality is hoping that the provision of utilities for the commercial and industrial zone will prompt some welcome growth. The first sod was cut on Tuesday.

Luzerner Zeitung – Over two years since it rapidly gained in value after the Swiss National Bank abolished its minimum euro exchange rate, the strong Swiss franc continues to burden the Perlen-based CPH Group. As a result, the Group’s new jobs are no longer being created in Switzerland, but are emerging abroad.

Finanz und Wirtschaft – Chemistry and Packaging Divisions gaining in stature.