It’s time to replace plastic in packaging with barrier boards
Thanks to barrier coatings, paperboard can serve many demanding applications that require high protection.
Ready to reduce plastic?
If you’ve decided to reduce plastic usage in packaging food, liquid or anything that requires effective protection, Stora Enso’s barrier-coated paperboards can help. Calculate the impact of reducing plastic with paperboard tray material.
Paperboard based on fresh fibers
Protection and performance
Barrier coatings provide critical qualities, such as humidity control, sealing properties, airtightness, light protection, oxygen permeability, aroma barrier, heat resistance, peelability, and grease proofing.
Our products
Paper-based trays
Packaging in paper cups and tubs
Barrier coating solutions and innovations
How to choose the ideal barrier
Need help finding the best barrier for your end use? We offer a full line of industry-leading solutions, and our team of experts are happy to support you further. Simply leave your contact details in our contact form!
Aqua coated solutions
With AquaTM barriers, the paperboard is finished with water-based dispersion technology, enabling the board to be liquid and grease resistant while providing the highest fiber recovery in recycling.
See what we’re working on
Stora Enso aims to develop technologies that reduce barrier coating weights, increase renewable content in barriers and make barrier products easier to recycle. First products from these developments are already in the market, and more are introduced soon.
Related guidebooks
Food Safety Guidebook
This guidebook assists brand owners, retailers, and converters in gaining an understanding of our stance on food safety, our methods for maintaining safety at our own locations and throughout the value chain, as well as strategies for ensuring compliance and accountability.
Barrier Coatings Guidebook
Barrier coatings are the heroes of challenging packaging applications. With this guidebook, our goal is to provide brand owners and retailers with a deeper understanding of the importance of barrier coatings, and to showcase our range of products that fulfill even the most rigorous requirements for food packaging.
Expertise on food-end use
Fiber-based packaging materials for food end-uses
We provide packaging materials for food and beverages, helping you meet the growing need for renewable alternatives across various applications.
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