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Vision and strategy mission for SCA spin off Essity


Group into two two independent listed companies, has launched a new ‘vision and strategy’. Sweden-based SCA now


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concentrates on forest products while Essity will produce a range of added-value tissue products and services. SCA’s hygiene business had been


known historically for its brands including Tena, Tork, Bodyform, Velvet, Cushelle and Plenty, which will form the basis of Essity’s hygiene and health platform. There are five manufacturing mills


currently operated by Essity, located at Skelmersdale, Manchester, Stubbins, Oakenholt and Prudhoe.


ssity, the global hygiene and health products manufacturer created with the split of SCA


vision in which hygiene is no longer seen as an end in itself but as a means for improving people’s health and wellbeing,” said Thea Roberts, acting UK vice president of consumer goods. “The SCA split means an increased focus and the chance to diversify the hygiene and health business into new product groups.”


Essity celebrates its listing on NASDAQ Stockholm. L to R: Fredrik Rystedt (CFO), Kersti Strandqvist (Sustainability), Robert Sjöström (Strategy and Business Development), Magnus Groth (CEO), Josephine Edwall-Björklund (Communications) and Mikael Schmidt (Legal Affairs and General Counsel)


The recently-acquired Tawd mill is due to be operational by the end of the year. Essity says its vision is to be


dedicated to improving wellbeing through leading health and hygiene solutions, while a mission


Mondi supports water project in Syria


Mondi has made a €37,250 donation to UNICEF following the packaging and paper maker’s biannual customer satisfaction survey. To encourage customers to participate, Mondi promised a donation to a charity fund for each completed survey received. The donation is Mondi’s second, and exceeds the €27,000 raised by the 2015 Mondi survey. UNICEF will use the €37,250


received from Mondi as start- up funding for a new project to restore a functioning system of running water and plumbing to five schools in Aleppo in Syria, enabling children to attend


July/August 2017


to sustainably develop, produce, market and sell value-added hygiene and health products and services. “When a proposed split of the


company was announced last autumn, we presented our new


This has already started with the


recent acquisition of BSN medical, a leading medical solutions company, whose brands such as Actimove, JOBST and Leukoplast will better position Essity to deliver its vision and mission. Customers and consumers will


begin to see SCA branding phased out from the hygiene business and replaced with new Essity branding over the next two years.


World’s first aseptic carton that’s made completely from plant-based renewables


L to R: Christian Skilich, group operations services & technical director, Mondi Group; Christa Laimer, corporate fundraising, UNICEF Austria; and Albert Klinkhammer, group marketing director, Mondi Group


schools with proper hygienic facilities.


In 2016, Mondi had sales of €6.7 billion.


Food and drinks carton manufacturer SIG Combibloc says it has developed the world’s first aseptic pack with a direct link to 100 per cent plant-based renewable materials.


With its Signature Pack the plastics components are replaced with certified and sustainable plant-based polymer materials. The polymers used for laminating the paperboard and making the spout originate from renewable European wood sources and are certified


according to ISCC PLUS (International Sustainability & Carbon Certification) or CMS 71 (TUV SUD certification standard). Ace Fung, global product manager at SIG Combibloc, said: “Developing an aseptic carton pack fully linked to renewable plant materials is quite a challenge. Aseptic packages, where the product can be stored without refrigeration over a long period, have higher barrier requirements than chilled packages.”


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