Cartiera Mantovana, a historic company for the production of recycled paper, now boasts three different divisions: the Paper Division, the Corrugated Division and the Plastic Division. All with the same common denominator: environmental sustainability.

History

Like all rivers, it has many to tell: not only legends and fairy tales but true stories, such as that of the Naviglio which is one of its sons, as a diversion canal dug in 1458. Since then it has never failed to water. men who, encamped along the banks, had immediately learned to use it to obtain a much greater strength than that of their own arms. With the current of the Naviglio, the Mantuan people managed to move the "hammers" that beat iron and copper, but there were other manufacturing users, the "madmen" employed in the production of paper. Maglio was then marked on the geographical maps with a lowercase initial, to indicate the installation of the hammering machine, it was a term inherited from the Latin "malleus". Over time and due to the strength of daily use, to factories.

It would have been more consistent with reality to call it “Follo”: in fact the iron hammers disappeared, not the madmen of rags, the raw material of paper, ancestors of the current Cartiera Mantovana. Exploring the past, the Maglio paper mills had always believed they could set 1690 as the ascertainable date of birth of the plant: it was already enough to elect themselves as the oldest paper mill in Italy, with titles to enter the world elite of veteran industries. On the other hand, a scholar of Mantuan history, Cesare Bertolini, could deepen his specific research, conducted in the archives of Gonzaga's Mantua and in other archival sites: he thus traced a document that enriches the story of the paper mill with new epochal contents. , the production activity would continue along the hereditary paths, in the family line, until it reaches the present day, when it is the Marenghi who celebrate, with the people of Maglio, over 400 years of their industry. The village is identified in the paper mill, so much so that the houses built in the 18th century by the entrepreneurs of the time to house the workers are still inhabited.

In 1981 a particular and restricted club of companies was born in Paris that could document at least 200 years, in family and operational continuity. There are just about ten Italian Henokiens and Cartiera Mantovana has even been welcomed with an overabundance of titles: in fact, it is already behind it for over 4 centuries of activity, but always with an outlined future. If the "concession and lease of the fool from paper under Goito" re-emerges from manuscript documents, found in ponderous archive folders of Gonzaga's Mantua, it is the displays of the Web era that present the present day of a dynamic family-based company, with so low as to legitimize attendance at the youngest level of the Confindustria representative organization chart. The ancient Cartiera Mantovana, with a young managing director, it is drawing its way along the 21st century and the new energies are destined to be renewed further with the contribution of the current generations. Cristina, Marco Fabio, Alberto, Vittorio are the Marenghi, a surname not devoid of heraldic content: family legends in fact give a reference to Riccio da Parma, a knight who, with the other spirited Italians led by Ettore Fieramosca, on 13 September 1503 in the famous " challenge of Barletta ”beat the French. The fact of private history does not go beyond the re-enactment of the famous episode, which has become a novel and film, while the value of another challenge, that of everyday problems, in the factory belongs to the present as the predominant element. When they have had to face painful moments, the strength and ability to move forward have never been lacking, in the succession of generations.