Timeline of the Rolland Company
The Saint-Jérôme plant then and now (1883 and 1988).
| 1842 | Librairie catholique de Jean-Baptiste Rolland bookshop founded; its name changes to J.B. Rolland & Fils in 1859 |
| 1882 | La Compagnie de papier Rolland limitée (Rolland Paper Company Limited) founded in Saint-Jérôme. Jean-Baptiste Rolland appointed company president. |
| 1883 | First sheet of superior-quality pure rag paper in Canada produced, on Machine No. 2 |
| 1886 | Machine No. 2 installed at the Saint-Jérôme mill. |
| 1888 | Damien Rolland becomes second company president. |
| 1900 | Superfine Linen Record wins Grand Prix at the Paris World’s Fair. |
| 1904 | Mont-Rolland mill opens under the name Les Moulins du Nord. Machine No. 3 installed at the Mont-Rolland mill. |
| 1912 | Machine No. 4 installed at the Mont-Rolland mill. Les Moulins du Nord merges with the Rolland Company. Stanislas Rolland becomes third company president. |
| 1928 | Company listed on the stock exchange as Compagnie de Papier Rolland Limitée / Rolland Paper Company Limited. Jean Rolland becomes fourth company president. Stanislas Rolland appointed chairman of the board of directors. |
| 1929 | Machine No. 5 installed at Saint-Jérôme. |
| 1930 | J.B. Rolland & fils stationery store and bookshop dissociates from the Rolland Paper Company. |
| 1940 | Machine No. 6 at Saint-Jérôme. |
| 1942 | Employees unionize. |
| 1946 | Pierre Rolland becomes fifth company president. |
Pierre Rolland, who served as the fifth president of the Rolland Paper Company, from 1946 to 1952.
| 1952 | Lucien Rolland becomes sixth company president. |
| 1955-1957 | Machine No. 7 installed at Saint-Jérôme; Machine No. 1 withdrawn. |
| 1964 | Company acquires Canada Glazed Papers Limited of Scarborough, Ontario. |
| 1965 | Machine No. 8 at Saint-Jérôme; Machine No. 2 withdrawn. |
| 1968 | Machine No. 8 manufacturing process control automated. |
| 1969-1970 | Company moves into distribution with acquisition of two distribution companies with offices in Montreal and Toronto. |
| 1975 | Mont-Rolland plant upgraded; among other things, Machine No. 4 retrofitted to make paper for decorative laminate products. |
| 1979 | Company changes name from Rolland Paper Company to Rolland Inc. |
| 1980 | Machine No. 8 upgraded, including improvements to speed. |
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau visits during the centennial celebrations of the Rolland Company in 1982.
| 1986-1990 | Machine No. 3 at Mont-Rolland upgraded. |
| 1989 | Company begins producing paper made from recycled fibre. |
| 1990 | Mont-Rolland plant closes. No. 3 and 4 machines withdrawn. |
| 1992 | Company sold to Cascades, run by the Lemaire brothers of Kingsey Falls, Quebec. Name changed to Rolland Inc., Cascades Group (also called Rolland Division). |
| 1996 | Company acquires Provincial Paper mill in Thunder Bay, Ontario, specialized in coated papers. |
| 1998 | Cascades Converting Centre established in Saint-Jérôme industrial park. |
| 2000 | Final year as a listed company; Rolland is henceforth integrated under Cascades Specialty Products Group, Rolland Division. |
| 2004 | Company invests in upgrades to the plant’s boiler room to allow use of biogas from Sainte-Sophie landfill site as fuel. |
| 2005 | Machine No. 5 at Saint-Jérôme shut down. Thunder Bay plant closes. |
| 2014 | Rolland sold by Cascades to a U.S. buyout firm, HIG Capital. It remains a private company, now known as Rolland Enterprises Inc. |
| 2017 | Company restructured, becoming the Rolland division of Sustana Group. |
| 2018 | Cup to Cup: Closing the Loop initiative launched in partnership with Starbucks to recycle coffee cups. |
Cup to Cup: Closing the Loop coffee cup recycling initiative.