Turnover: 2.5 billion EUR (2022)
Country: France
Founded in 1994, the Paprec group specializes in waste recycling and treatment. At its 200 sites in France and Switzerland, 10,000,000 tonnes of waste are processed every year. The group claims to be the leading recycler of
- Paper and cardboard
- Office documents
- Construction site waste
- Plastic
- Batteries
The group employs around 13,000 people
News
Paprec: the Petithuguenin succession is in place 18/06/2024
- Percentage of Paprec capital held by Jean-Luc Petithuguenin's children: 80%
Paprec takes up the challenge against Suez and Veolia in the waste sector 18/06/2024
- Paprec: number three in waste management in France, with the ambition of becoming number one, ahead of Suez and Veolia.
- - Number one in recycling.
- - Second in solid recovered fuel (SRF).
- - Third in methanization.
- - 20% stake in Pizzorno Environnement, with sales of around 265 million euros in 2023.
- - Objective f: achieve sales of 5 billion euros by 2028, up 67% on 2023 (3 billion euros), including 1 billion outside France
- - Veolia's French waste division generated revenues of 2.9 billion euros last year, out of a group total of 45.4 billion.
- - Acquisition of Recycleurs Bretons, a Finistère-based SME with sales of €40 million.
- - Presence in ten countries with some 350 sites and plants, mainly in France.
- - Market leader in Switzerland following the purchase of 40% of local market leader Helvetia Environnement.
- - Recently established in Scotland and soon to inaugurate a second CSR boiler plant in Krosno, Poland.
- - 250 to 300 robots working in Paprec plants
Waste: Paprec pushes ahead in Switzerland 15/01/2024
- Paprec was founded in 1994 Paprec has been active in Switzerland for 13 years.
- Paprec has acquired 40% of the capital of Helvetia Environnement, the local leader in its sector in Switzerland.
- Two investment funds hold respectively 40% and 20% of Helvetia Environnement's capital.
- Paprec Switzerland generates sales of €50 million from six sites.
- Helvetia Environnement generates sales of 130 million euros with 22 operating centers.
- Paprec invests 400 million euros annually in its production facilities.
- Paprec recently completed its fifth round of financing, welcoming Vauban Infrastructure Partners and Crédit Agricole as new shareholders.
- Thirty years after its creation, Paprec has achieved sales of 3 billion euros.
Paprec sets foot on the promising Scottish market 12/10/2023
- The family-owned group, number one in waste management in France with forecast sales of 2.7 billion euros for 2023
- Scotland our eleventh country of operation
- Construction and operation of a waste-to-energy plant in partnership with Binn Group, a Scottish company specializing in waste treatment.
- Total ban on the practice of landfilling waste in Scotland from January 1, 2026.
- Paprec Energies will own the Scottish plant, which already generates 300 million euros in sales
- Creation of an in-house company dedicated to the design of waste-to-energy units, Paprec Engineering (around 400 people).
- It brings together experts from Paprec, Tiru, a Dalkia subsidiary acquired in 2021, and CNIM E & E EPC
Environment: Séché and Paprec strengthen their international position 12/09/2023
- Paprec is present in some ten countries, and recently acquired CLD in Spain, which is expected to generate sales of 103 million euros in 2023.
- In Spain, Paprec forecasts total revenues of €200 million for 2021.
- Paprec expects total sales of 3 billion euros in 2023.
Paprec positions itself in metal and hazardous waste recycling in Alsace 26/07/2023
- Cernay Environnement" acquired by Paprec
- Cernay Environnement employs around forty people.
- Cernay Environnement has sales of around €15 million.
- The Paprec group has over 13,000 employees in ten countries.
- Paprec's sales target for 2022 is 2.5 billion euros.
- Paprec is the third-largest national player in scrap metal management, with around one million tonnes managed per year.
- Cernay Environnement and Paprec jointly manage waste from chemical companies Alsachimie and Butachimie.
Paprec launches operations in Spain 11/04/2023
- Paprec acquires a 60% stake in GBi Serveis
- gBi Serveis sales: 40 million euros, GBi Serveis workforce: 500 employees
- Targeted sales for Paprec in Spain by the end of 2023: 100 million euros with 1,000 employees
- Paprec sales in Switzerland: around €60 million - Established in Switzerland: since 2010
- - Paprec sales in 2021: 2.5 billion euros, up 20% on 2020
- - Paprec gross operating surplus in 2021: 400 million euros
- Paprec sales target to 2030: 5 billion euros
- French leader in recycling, active in ten countries
Paprec reaps the rewards of its diversification into energy 27/03/2023
- In 2021, Paprec acquired Tiru (industrial treatment of urban waste) from EDF.
- Created in 1922 by the city of Paris, Tiru operates four plants in the Paris region, Dunkirk, Sète and abroad (Poland and the UK).
- In 2022, Paprec took over Cnim Environnement & Énergie, a specialist in the design and manufacture of thermal energy, waste combustion and biomass production units.
- - Energy Division sales of 300 million euros by 2021
- - Group sales of 2.3 billion euros in 2022
- - EBITDA of 400 million euros
Plastic recycling: Paprec, TotalEnergies to take part 10/03/2023
- Last year, Citeo, the eco-organization entrusted by the French government with the management of waste that is little or not at all recycled, recently awarded a series of contracts for the recycling of plastic resins
- The recycling rate for plastic resins is around 30% in France, compared with a European target of 100% by 2025.
- Most of the PET contracts have been awarded to Paprec, which has a major processing plant in Limay (Yvelines).
- For plastic film, the eco-organization chose Machaon, with its unit at Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne). and TotalEnergies, which has undertaken to convert its Grandpuits refinery (Seine-et-Marne) into a plastics recycling platform.
- The American company Eastman, which is to set up the world's largest PET chemical recycling plant in Port-Jérôme (Seine-Maritime), was not selected and is working on other solutions to access the French material
Paprec acquires Cnim E&E to strengthen its position in energy recovery 08/04/2022
- This activity currently represents sales of 350 million euros
- Paprec has undertaken to integrate 227 of the 300 employees from Cnim
- Var-based industrial group Cnim was placed under safeguard procedure in January
Paprec commissioned to build the future Gennevilliers waste methanization plant 22/03/2022
- Paprec, France's third-largest waste treatment and energy recovery company
- The unit is expected to process 50,000 tonnes of waste each year
- It will produce biogas
- The plant should eventually generate 36,000 megawatt-hours annually
- Paprec plans to double sales in 10 years
Financial Data
DUNS: 489455360
Legal Name: PAPREC GROUP
Address: 7 RUE DU DOCTEUR LANCEREAUX , 75008 PARIS 8
Number of employees: Entre 100 et 199 salariés (2020)
Capital: 125 385 750 EUR
Financial Data:
| Year | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | 36 103 732 | 29 212 584 | 28 470 913 | 21 617 200 |
| Gross margin (€) | 36 241 023 | 36 389 023 | 35 338 674 | 21 617 228 |
| EBITDA (€) | 26 379 734 | 10 647 753 | 8 415 625 | 7 100 972 |
| Operating profit (€) | 25 354 526 | 8 231 523 | 13 438 379 | 6 406 972 |
| Net profit (€) | 4 523 672 | -16 076 589 | -8 688 735 | -8 031 809 |
| Turnover growth rate (%) | 23,6 | 2,6 | 31,7 | -0,9 |
| Ebitda margin rate (%) | 73,1 | 36,4 | 29,6 | 32,8 |
| Operating margin rate (%) | 70,2 | 28,2 | 47,2 | 29,6 |
| Working Capital (turnover days) | 5 282,8 | 5 721,7 | 4 809,1 | 6 470,2 |
| Working Capital requirements (turnover days) | 79,1 | 44,4 | 61,9 | 94,6 |
| Net margin (%) | 12,5 | -55 | -30,5 | -37,2 |
| Added value / Turnover (%) | 121,9 | 82,6 | 77,8 | 91,3 |
| Wages and social charges (€) | 16 951 669 | 12 944 366 | 12 880 835 | 12 127 897 |
| Salaries / Turnover (%) | 47 | 44,3 | 45,2 | 56,1 |
Company Managers:
| Position | First Name | Last Name | Age | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Président du conseil d'administration,Directeur général | Sébastien | Petithuguenin | 46 | |
| Directeur général délégué | Mathieu Jean-Luc Frédéric | Petithuguenin | 39 | |
| Administrateur | Jean-Christophe | Elie | 59 | |
| Administrateur | Mathieu Jean-Luc Frédéric | Petithuguenin | 39 | |
| Administrateur représentant les salariés | Claire Marie-Emilie | Boursinhac | 41 |
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