IQ EXTRALIGHT targets the uncoated premium segment in opaque paper and is produced at Mondi Neusiedler, Austria

Stora Enso continues to develop the Trayforma range further and introduces a new solution for conventionally heated food packaging applications, featuring less than 10% PET plastic.

Sorel-Tracy, November 16, 2021 - The Centre de transfert technologique en écologie industrielle (CTTÉI) is inaugurating a state-of-the-art laboratory, unique in Quebec and Canada, dedicated to the development of hydrothermal oxidation and supercritical fluids.

Koehler Paper’s Technical Customer Service tested the TM‐T88VI receipt printer comprehensively for months. – With success! Because: The sustainable, blue Blue4est® thermal paper by Koehler Paper gets first‐rate results on Epson TM‐T88VI receipt printer.

UPM Raflatac is leading the way by introducing a full range of paper label products made with 100% recycled fibers designed for food, retail and logistics labeling needs.

Hygiene and health company Essity is launching a pilot project to run a paper machine CO²-free with green hydrogen in the company’s production facility in Mainz-Kostheim, Germany.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö's sterile barrier systems offer excellent bacterial barrier thanks to cellulosic fibers that create a tortuous path for excellent sterility maintenance of surgical instruments up to the point of use.

Performa Light CarbonZero™ by Stora Enso is the first carbon neutral cartonboard offer in the market. It helps Stora Enso’s customers to have a smaller climate impact. 

Lactips launches Plastic Free Paper: the first paper packaging solution that is free from plastic or controversial substances and fully recyclable and compostable 

Packaging has more to offer than protecting and branding products. It can help reduce a product’s climate impact by offering a low carbon packaging with waste management instructions. With new IoT technologies we can engage, encourage,and instruct consumers how to recycle.

As the backlash against single-use plastic packaging grows, the market for paper packaging is increasing—but the demand for paper also means more logging, some of which still happens in old-growth forests.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s Cristal™ transparent packaging papers have recently achieved BPI® compostability certification and Cristal™ heat sealable papers have additionally received a How2Recycle® label.

A long-term collaboration between Finnish startup The Paper Lid Company and Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, has led to the development of a 100% recyclable paperboard lid for use with takeaway cups.

The desire for portion control in a packaging solution has been a common theme with brand owners and manufacturers alike.

The new Fusion Nature Plus paper and the successful Fusion Topliner transform many corrugated board packages, such as those used in e-commerce, into real eye-catchers. 

September 23, 2021 - Continuing its focus on global sustainability leadership and aligned with its ‘from Plastic to Purpose’ campaign, Ahlstrom-Munksjö has released a pioneering mono-material oxygen barrier technology made of 100% cellulose fibers.

Elopak is today announcing the more environmentally friendly aseptic carton – the Pure-Pak® eSense.

Paboco together with P&G unveils the first paper bottle for Lenor, announcing a pilot for Western Europe in 2022. The trial rollout will form the basis of a test and learn strategy to scale up paper packaging and incorporate it more widely across P&G’s portfolio.

HKScan introduces renewable-based plastic in packaging in collaboration with Wipak and Woodly

The corrugated business is an industry always in development. After five years of looking into the corrugated industry and how Exilva can be applied to different glue recipes, we have seen elevating results at more than 70 corrugators around the world.

Holmen Iggesund launches paperboard coated with Bio E, a barrier coating solution made from 75 percent renewable raw materials and approved for industrial composting.