Sustainable Converting
Metsä Board off ers sustainable solutions for packaging and converting
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etsä Board’s product range covers lightweight folding boxboards, food service boards and white kraftliners.
Their products, used in consumer and retail packaging, are made from fully traceable fresh wood fibre from responsibly managed forests that are certified or meet the criteria of controlled origin. The Metsä Board portfolio offers solutions for demanding packaging and converting end uses, such as food and beverages, food service, consumer electronics, beauty care, healthcare and graphic applications.
As part of Metsä Group, a Finnish forest industry group, Metsä Board benefits from a unique value chain from pure Northern European wood fibre to high-quality end products. Metsä Board helps customers reduce their carbon footprint through resource-efficient materials and packaging solutions that are easy to recycle and promote the circular economy.
METSÄ BOARD IS CONTINUOUSLY WORKING TOWARDS FOSSIL FREE AND RESOURCE-EFFICIENCY FOR ITS OWN PRODUCTION.
Mitigating climate change, promoting biodiversity, using resources efficiently and developing a responsible corporate culture and supply chain are at the core of Metsä Board’s sustainability efforts. Their targets are
ambitious. At Metsä Board, they aim to achieve fossil free production and products by the end of 2030. Currently, 90 percent of the energy and 99 percent of the raw materials used at their mills are fossil free.
To save valuable resources, Metsä Board continuously invests in the most efficient production processes. Metsä Board has detailed roadmaps for the climate and water measures it is taking to achieve its 2030 sustainability targets.
PACKAGING SOLUTIONS WITH ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS Resource efficiency is at the core of Metsä Board’s product development work. Based on lifecycle assessments, their paperboards have a lower carbon footprint compared to many corresponding packaging materials. This helps customers reduce their plastic use and lower the carbon footprint of packaging. Here are a few examples of recent Metsä Board’s sustainability highlights: • Ultralight packaging innovation: The design of a pizza box that is, possibly, the lightest in the world. Compared to traditional solutions, this corrugated e-flute box, designed to require less material without compromising strength, is up to 38 percent lighter than pizza boxes made with conventional paperboard.
• Reducing the carbon footprint in pharmaceutical packaging: Metsä Board conducted lifecycle calculations of the climate impact of different paperboard grades. Based on the assessments, switching from conventionally used grades to fresh fibre paperboard can cut the carbon footprint of a pharmaceutical packaging by up to 60 percent.
• Recognitions for systematic work for sustainability: Metsä Board achieves very high scores in several ESG ratings, including CDP A List in Climate change and Water security and A- in Forests; the highest Platinum level and high scores in each of the four themes assessed by Ecovadis.
360 SERVICES COMPLEMENT METSÄ BOARD’S PRODUCT PORTFOLIO Metsä Board 360 Services offers customers expertise beyond paperboard in topics such as packaging design and sustainability. Metsä Board provides life-cycle assessments, data-based comparisons of the environmental impacts of different materials and fit-for-purpose packaging solutions to help customers improve the recyclability and material efficiency of packages.
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