Paperboard materials for foodservice packaging
Cupstock and food service board for hot and cold drinks, ice cream, and takeaway food
Foodservice packaging has to perform through converting, filling, and everyday use by the customer. Our cupstock and food service board combine stiffness at a lower weight with consistent performance in printing and converting, helping converters keep production lines running at high speeds.
The Cupforma range covers hot and cold beverage cups and ice cream cups, with sealable barriers and high resistance to coffee edge wicking. Foodbox offers an uncoated surface for food packaging and stays sturdy at lower grammages, including in chilled and frozen conditions. All materials are food safe in intended end uses and taste and odour neutral.
Cupforma Natura and Cupforma Special are available with UltraThinPE Tec™ coating options for applications where a thinner polymer coating is preferred.
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The thinnest polymer coating for food service board products on the market is now available
Our recent production technology achievement, UltraThinPE Tec™, significantly reduces the share of plastic coating in foodservice packaging, such as single-use paper cups.With the help of UltraThinPE Tec™, Stora Enso has developed the thinnest polymer coating for FSB products on the market, allowing for designs with less than 5% plastic – an important step in helping packaging converters, brand-owners, and retailers meet their plastics reduction targets.
UltraThinPE™ coatings are currently available for Stora Enso’s Cupforma product range for paper cups.
Our products
Cupforma Natura™ by Stora Enso
Trusted as the most efficient cupstock on the market, Cupforma Natura yields up to 10% more cups from each tree.
Our best-selling paperboard for decades, Cupforma Natura, creates lightweight yet stiff cups that are easy to hold. It’s perfectly designed for hot and cold beverage cups that don’t leak or break apart with sealable barriers and high resistance to coffee edge-wicking.
Cupforma Natura is food-safe, and taste and odour neutral. And thanks to its consistent performance in printing and converting processes, it minimises downtime and maximises throughput on high-speed lines.
Cupforma Natura is now available with UltraThinPE Tec™ coating options including PE11, and PE Green 9 and 11.
Cupforma Special™ by Stora Enso
Cupforma Special is an excellent paperboard for enjoying ice cream and other foods, whether at home or on the go.
Cupforma Special features a pigment coating that improves print results, as well as an advanced baseboard structure enhanced by CTMP in the middle layer.
These offer stiffness and packaging performance in a lower-weight board. The pigment-coated topside creates a smooth and white surface for high printability, yet delivers the strength and sealability needed to withstand the cup forming process.
Cupforma Special is now available with UltraThinPE Tec™ coating options including PE11, and PE Green 9 and 11.
Foodbox™ by Stora Enso
Foodbox’s look and feel can boost your brand’s artisanal image.
Foodbox by Stora Enso is made for a variety of food and other packaging applications.
Its uncoated surface makes it the perfect choice for packaging that complements the product inside.
Foodbox has very good taste and odour neutrality and suits even chilled and frozen conditions. Its three-layer fiber construction makes it sturdy and robust at lower grammages.
Foodbox is free from optical brightening agents (OBA). It’s also available with a transparent PE coating on one or both sides.
Cupforma Natura
“Their quality is very good. When we are converting and printing the material, we have less wastage and less quality complaints on sealings and everything. I've been with my current company for around 27 years, and throughout my career we've been working with Stora Enso. In between, we've tried partnering with several other companies, but nothing can beat Stora Enso."
Technical specifications
Technical specifications for Cupforma Natura
Technical specifications for Cupforma Special
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Technical specifications for Foodbox
