16 PANKABOARD
Strategic focus on cross-border trade
Finnish premium carton board manufacturer Pankaboard is exploiting its special location adjacent to Russia. PPL reports
and folding boxboards (FBB) with nearly all of its 100,000-ton output exported to Europe, North America and Asia, the Russian market is of special interest. With its mill located at Pankakoski in eastern Finland, Pankaboard is just 25km from the Russian border. This means that the privately- owned firm can offer cost-effective logistics for Russian customers and demonstrates a strategic focus on cross-border trade. Pankaboard specialises in virgin
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fibre cartonboards that are tailored to meet specific end- use segments in a wide range of applications, primarily packages for luxury beverages, food, health care, and pharmaceuticals. With two production lines, BM2
installed in 1979 with capacity of 60,000t and a width of 3,050mm and BM3, which was last rebuilt in 1980 with capacity of 40,000t and a width of 2,250mm, the mill offers a wide range of coated and uncoated cartonboards, including folding boxboards up to 550 gsm (1.0 mm) for luxury beverage packaging as well as for food, pharmaceuticals and health care packaging.
Wide product range for different applications Leading product PankaBrite (275- 550 gsm), is a folding boxboard well suited to luxury beverage
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lthough Finland’s Pankaboard Oy is a leading producer of special carton boards
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Pankaboard uses raw-material from local, certified forests. Picture courtesy Pankaboard Oy
packages because of its thickness. “Due to its thickness we
can offer PankaBrite as a very cost efficient and ecological alternative to laminated material constructions,” says vice president
Christer Nordman. “The smooth surface gives excellent printing results.” The folding boxboard can also be delivered with a coated backside, PankaWhite, which for example is used for boxing
popular Armenian brandies. This novel product range also includes a wide selection of uncoated speciality boards such as the uncoated folding boxboard PankaStar, which is an attractive choice for highlighting the ecological image of a product. Using Condebelt technology for manufacturing uncoated board results in exceptional smoothness and printability, says Nordman. The mill also produces several other cartonboard grades for various special applications, such as material for laminated displays and picture frames, and for the food service industry.
Customer service is a priority at all stages for sales service manager Arto Pekkarinen and his team. Picture courtesy Pankaboard Oy
Cost-efficient solutions for Russian customers With Pankaboard’s proximity to the Russian border, there
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