Our society is changing, and today’s lifestyles are having a big impact on consumer demand. This affects many areas of industry.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö launches CelluStraw™, a new fiber-based solution for drinking paper straws, enabling the food industry to provide consumers an alternative to single-use plastic straws.

Metsä Board – part of Metsä Group – has created a new, enhanced folding boxboard portfolio, designed specifically to help brand owners and packaging converters tackle the big issues in packaging: saving resources, reducing carbon footprint and ensuring product safety.

The leading supplier of sustainable packaging solutions has created an innovative solution for the UK’s bird population.

Smurfit Kappa has walked away with 14 awards at the European Flexographic Industry Innovation (EFIA) Awards, further consolidating its leadership in the packaging industry.

Polar Krush, the UK-based iced drinks market leader has actively eliminated plastic straws from its brand with the launch of a revolutionary, 100% environmentally friendly spoon straw.

Jakarta, 10 April 2019 - Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) continues to expand its portfolio to meet the environmentally conscious goals and demands of consumers with the newest addition to the Foopak suite of products: the new Bio Container for takeaway food.Constructed with folding boxboard (FBB), the box offers a fully biodegradable and compostable solution for takeaway containers, trays and other direct food contact items.

Cellx developed a new production process in which cardboard is being fortified and made fire proof. The new material is light, strong and is exceptionally suitable for recycling.

The Helsinki Wholesale Market area launched, in October 2018, an innovation competition aimed at finding new ideas and solutions for the development of services and versatile entrepreneurship.

Cartons will become full-scale data carriers and digital tools​

Paper packaging materials- and solutions provider BillerudKorsnäs and plastic packaging solutions provider ALPLA today announced that they will embark on a joint venture.

Beverage cartons have already been on the market for over 100 years. The milk carton, originally entirely made of paperboard and thus 100 percent bio-based, was patented in 1915.

SPOKANE, Wash.- - Mar. 25, 2019 -- Clearwater Paper Corporation (NYSE: CLW) today introduced NuVo®, a new brand of cup stock paperboard that provides foodservice operators choice and differentiation through customized material to fit their specific brand needs.

The need came from Ahlstrom-Munksjö customers, who are trying to tackle the challenge of the ever-increasing size of wind turbine blades.

Smurfit Kappa has launched an innovative new range of premium papers that are suitable for both digital and flexographic printers. 

South Korean beauty conglomerate AmorePacific has pledged to use paper packaging over bubble wrap, in response to consumer concerns over plastic waste and its environmental damage.

Developed for the Away from Home market, the product is designed to eliminate bad odours, with an active ingredient capable of modifying their molecular structure.

Stora Enso is investing EUR 5 million to build a new production line and related infrastructure to manufacture formed fiber products at Hylte Mill in Sweden.

Chairs have been around for millennia, with a rich history that was explored in “Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History” by Witold Rybczynski.

Ahlstrom-Munksjö’s North America Specialty Solutions Coated Products team announced today an extension to their brand of release liners used in the manufacture of Advanced Composites.

“Practical coatings, varnishes and paint packaging for environmentally-conscious people” – this is how Rapak, part of DS Smith Plastics announces new Bag-in-Box launch.