alesco’s history

1943
Ewald Schoeller, founder of the company, settles in Langerwehe after his expulsion from East Russia, and establishes "Ewald Schoeller GmbH & Co. KG“ in Langerwehe. He starts manufacturing paper products and threads at the site of a former pin factory.

1944
During the Second World War the company gets destroyed. Only the owner’s villa on the edge of the site can be reconstructed at the end of the war. All the other buildings have to be re-built entirely new.

1959
Looking ahead to the future a polyethylene production was started on trial.

1967
Ewald Schoeller GmbH is one of the first companies which manufacture "plastic containers" (today known as mouldings) in Germany.

1968
Schoeller buys the first printing machine for FILMS and moves into processing; a step which has consequently been continued and expanded since then.

1979
The transport packs of the Alsdorf company "Aldo-Plastik Kunststofffolien GmbH & Co. KG" perfectly fit into the product range of the company's own plastic packs. Ewald Schoeller takes over the company and its employees.

1980
Until 1980, almost all the customers are from Germany. Company management decides to change that, and invests in the development of new markets in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Several sales offices are established to serve these new markets.

2000
The company increases the printing capacity in Langerwehe. 2003 The core markets of the film area "beverage films, soil films and films for the "green economy" ("green market") are extended.

2004
The two companies Ewald Schoeller and Aldo-Plastik merge under the new name of SCHOELLER-ALDO GmbH & Co. KG.

2005
The company invests in an eight-colour printing-machine as well as in a laminator. Furthermore, the coex-capacity is being increased.

2006
Further purchase of an eight-colour printing-machine for Langerwehe.

The company joins the association European Bioplastics e.V. (formerly IBAW) and starts the first production test with flexible film made of renewable raw materials.

2007
To react more flexible to the needs of the the market, the mouldings-department of SCHOELLER-ALDO becomes an independent subsidiary: aldoplast GmbH & Co. KG (http://www.aldoplast.com/ ). The parent company with its paper- and film-production also gets a new, more international name: alesco GmbH & Co. KG.

2008
alesco refocuses on its core business - the production of fexible film-packagings - and sells parts of the business sector paper refinement. From 1st January, 2008 Walke AG takes over the business divisions wet glue papers and paraffin papers. The business sectors bitumen and crepe paper stay with alesco.