PAPIRUS was founded in 1952 when the Italian Ramenzoni family, which enjoyed a great tradition in the making of hats (Ramenzoni) and shirts (Bantan), decided to produce the raw material to wrap their products. They acquired a cardboard factory in the countryside of São Paulo, which in a few years became the family’s core business. In 1972, they built their current industrial plant in Limeira, 131 km from São Paulo. Nowadays, PAPIRUS relies on 372 collaborators, and about 24 outsourced personnel, with a production of 92,000 net tons per year of cardboard that it sells in Brazil and exports to Europe, Asia, North America, Africa, and especially Latin America.