At a glance

The CPH Group is active in three separate industrial segments developing, manufacturing and distributing chemicals, printing paper and pharmaceutical packaging films. The stock exchange-listed group is headquartered in Switzerland and has production facilities at 11 locations in six countries in Europe, Asia and North and South America. The CPH Group can look back on more than 200 years of industrial tradition.

The Chemistry Division is a world-leading supplier in the silicate chemistry field. Trading under the ‘Zeochem’ brand, the division manufactures molecular sieves for industrial and medical applications, high-value chromatography gels for the pharmaceutical sector and deuterated products for analytics, pharmaceutics and OLED displays. Zeochem maintains production facilities in China, the USA, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Switzerland.

The Paper Division is Switzerland’s sole manufacturer of newsprint and magazine paper and its biggest recycler of domestically recovered paper. The papers produced are primarily exported to the Eurozone. The products, which are sold under the ‘Perlen Papier’ brand and have been well established in the market for decades, are made from recovered paper and waste wood from sawmill and forest management operations.

The Packaging Division aligns its business primarily to the requirements of the pharmaceutical industry, and is one of the world’s three biggest suppliers of coated plastic films. The division’s products, which are manufactured at locations in Switzerland, Germany, China, the USA and Brazil, are marketed under the ‘Perlen Packaging’ brand and are used mainly in blister packs to protect the medicines these contain.