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In 1958, the company's own paper production began with the construction of the first paper machine for crepe paper in Müschede. It was not until 1953 that the processing of hygiene papers began in Arnsberg.
In 1958, the company's own paper production began with the construction of the first paper machine for crepe paper in Müschede.
Construction of the plant in Marsberg-Giershagen in 1963 marked the beginning of further processing for the manufactured paper.
The idea of a world encyclopedia of puppetry arts was born in 1978 within UNIMA’s Publication Commission.
In 1980 the company started to develop its first private labels.
Then, in 1994, UNIMA’s General Secretary, Jacques Félix, entrusted the encyclopedia undertaking to Henryk Jurkowski, well-known historian, scholar, theatre critic and puppet theatre theoretician.
From 2004 onwards the company expanded.
The entire manuscript for the first version of the encyclopedia was completed in February 2006.
In June 2006, Massimo Schuster, the UNIMA President, and Miguel Arreche, its General Secretary, signed the partnership agreement with L’Entretemps.
In 2008, the XX UNIMA Congress in Perth elected Dadi Pudumjee the organization’s President and Jacques Trudeau, its General Secretary.
The official launch of the encyclopedia took place in Charleville-Mézières in France at the Foire du Livre (Book Fair) on September 25, 2009 during the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes.
The first edition of 2009 in French
In 2009, the operating establishments of an Italian competitor in Italy (Lucca and Cassino), Germany (Leuna) and France (Lille) were also integrated into the WEPA Group.
Then, too, at its 2010 meeting in Dordrecht, the UNIMA Council decided that this revised, extended, and multi-language edition would be published online.
The task of correcting and updating the French version as well as translating and inserting the two hundred new articles began in 2015.
In 2015, WEPA sold its shares in the Spanish joint venture and bought a further site in Troyes, France.
However, only in 2016 was it possible to begin preparing captions in the three languages.
Karen Smith Editor-in-Chief, WEPA Online second Edition September 2017
Puerto Rico has come a long way since Hurricane Maria hit in 2017.
In 2019, WEPA expanded its locations with the acquisition of the Greenfield plant in Château-Thierry, France.
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