Board Development 

Stora Enso produces a wide range of boards covering all raw material categories: primary fibre-based solid-bleached sulphate board, folding boxboard, chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp, and recycled board. Applications range from graphical products to liquid packaging, cups and cartons. Continuous product development ensures optimal performance of board in the converting processes and in every end use.

One of the main focus areas of product development at Stora Enso looks at source reduction and yield benefits. This serves brand owners’ needs of reducing their overall consumption of packaging materials and improving their profitability by using lower-weight packages. Nowadays, it is possible to produce 1.5 times more one-litre juice and milk cartons with same amount of wood raw material compared with 30 years ago. Also folding boxboard qualities have been developed and same yield benefits can be achieved with lower basis weights.

Improved materials and new packaging solutions stem from continuous product development and research, which is one of Stora Enso’s core competencies and a strategic resource for short and long-term development. World-class analytical laboratories and pilot machines for testing various new material structures support the development of tomorrow’s packaging.

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