One of the oldest enterprises in the pulp and paper industry in Russia. In 1845, on the banks of the Izhora River, the Englishmen Ivan Rogers and Daniil Reiner founded the Tsarsko-Slavonic stationery factory. In 1885, the factory was acquired by a British subject, the Tsarskoye Selo merchant Yegor Frantsevich Reiner. The new owner set himself the goal of expanding the factory, relying on the rapidly developing sugar industry in those years, he wished to become the largest supplier of sugar paper. Reiner installed more powerful equipment, and the factory produced 60 thousand poods of brown and sugar paper.