Milestones

1950 - National leaders headed by Pinchas Sapir convince a group of four Jewish paper industrialists to establish a paper plant in Hadera that would provide employment opportunities to hundreds of immigrants in the area. Their names are: Joseph Meizner (co-owner of Pulp and Paper New York), Estora Mayer from Italy, Leon Fefer from Brazil, and Max Freilich from Australia.

1951 – The company was incorporated under the name of "American Israeli Paper Mills" Ltd. with approximately $2 million of private equity.

1953 – For the first time, a paper plant was opened in Israel comprising of one paper machine for the manufacture of print and writing paper. The slogan of the inauguration ceremony was "Torah will spring forth from Jerusalem… and paper from Hadera."

1959 – The company issues its shares in public offerings on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and on the AMEX Stock Exchange in New York.

1960 – The plant receives an additional manufacturing machine (paper machine number 2). The new machine produces newsprint and office paper while increasing the manufacturing capacity of the plant. The number of employees grows, and foreign employees are gradually replaced by local employees joining the company.

1966 – The last of the foreign employees leaves the plant.

1967 – The plant receives paper machine number 3, which manufactures mainly household paper products such as tissue, paper towels and crepes.

1969 - "American Israeli Paper Mills" Ltd. (AIPM) establishes a subsidiary for paper recycling by the name of "Amnir" with the aim of reducing the use of imported pulp. Concurrently, the company develops a technology for the removal of ink from used paper.  

1969 – A subsidiary company by the name of "Hogla", which is the first toilet paper manufacturing company in Israel, is established.

1976 – This year sees the scope of paper manufactured in the plant reach 77 thousand tons. A fourth paper machine is added to the plant-machine number 4 - for the manufacture of fine paper, print and packaging paper reaching a scope of 60 thousand tons per annum. This machine doubles the local manufacturing capacity and enables a decrease in import.

1980- The Company continues to develop and as part of its policy increases the use of recycled waste paper in the manufacturing process. In tandem, the company endeavors to reduce water consumption in the manufacturing process.

1981- The production of disposable diapers. Disposable diapers are manufactured for the first time in Israel by the company's subsidiary, Hogla. The diapers carry the brand name of "Titulim".  

1990 –This year marks the beginning of a strategic shift in the Company's business activities as the Company intertwines its activities with international organizations, thereby becoming an international corporation.

1992 – "American Israeli Paper Mills" Ltd. (AIPM) acquires Koor's holdings in the Carmel Container Systems company in partnership with Rand & Whitney, an American company. Carmel Container Systems manufactures corrugated board containers for the cardboard packaging industry. It acquires the paper cylinders for the manufacture of corrugated board from the paper plants in Hadera.

1996 –"American Israeli Paper Mills" Ltd. (AIPM), via its subsidiary Hogla- the largest non-food consumer products company in Israel- signs a strategic partnership agreement with the global Kimberly Clark. This partnership is named Hogla-Kimberly Ltd.   

1999 -"American Israeli Paper Mills" Ltd. (AIPM) through Hogla-Kimberly acquires the Turkish company of Ovisan, as part of its expansion into international markets.

1999 - "American Israeli Paper Mills" Ltd. (AIPM) signs a strategic joint venture agreement with the Austrian paper company, Neusiedler AG (currently named Mondi), specializing in the manufacture of photo, copy, and printing office paper, eventuating some time later in Mondi-Hadera Paper.

2000 – A new toilet paper machine is installed at the Hogla-Kimberly plant in Nahariya in addition to the Hadera plant toilet paper machine.

2007 - Conversion to natural gas- the Hadera Paper Group is the first industrial company in Israel to connect to the natural gas project. Following ten years of planning and development, the Company connected its Hadera facility to the natural gas pipe, at which point the entire energy system at the site was converted from fuel oil to natural gas.

2007  - The "New Horizons" project - the Company’s management approved a strategic investment of approximately $160 million to construct an additional paper machine (“Machine 8”). This machine will commence production in 2009.

2008 - The Company changed its name from American Israeli Paper Mills Ltd. to Hadera Paper Ltd.