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reduce the environmental impact of their products and their packaging. From a packaging perspective, using renewable materials and reducing the weight of packaging plays a big role in reaching these sustainability targets. This can be done through the use of lighter-weight paperboards, optimising structural and material packaging design, and eliminating unnecessary packaging.


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roducers around the world have set themselves ambitious growth targets as well as sustainability targets to


THE ADVANTAGES OF LIGHT WEIGHTING PACKAGING Metsä Board, the European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards, offers a range of premium lightweight paperboards. By selecting these grades, packaging weight can be reduced by 10– 30 per cent overall. This has an effect on the entire value chain, from factories to shops all the way to consumers’ homes. Damaged goods, food safety and


reducing waste are certainly priorities for many industries, and this is why the protection provided by packaging is a key factor. Metsä Board’s lightweight paperboards are engineered for high


sustainability. Quality consistency is therefore essential for converting efficiency. Metsä Board only uses fresh fibres and own pulps which makes the quality of its paperboard highly consistent. When the board can maintain this kind of high consistency, it makes for less adjustment work, faster running and fewer stoppages on the converting and printing line, consequently saving time, money and creating less waste.


performance, with an optimised three layer structure and high yield pulp in the middle layer, which helps achieve high strength, bulk and stiffness, even at these lighter weights. The high yield pulping technology uses


less wood fibre raw material to produce the same amount of paperboard, which makes it very resource efficient: the same package can be produced using lower quantities of raw materials (i.e., less wood) without compromising its properties, which has advantages for the environment and efficiency. In converting, high speed and minimising downtime and waste are critical for overall efficiency as well as important contributors for packaging


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LIGHTWEIGHT PAPERBOARD CAN HELP REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS ACROSS THE VALUE CHAIN Lighter paperboards mean reduced environmental impacts at every stage of the packaging life cycle. The boards’


Considered packaging choices can help packaging producers and converters to maximise efficiency, minimise material usage and reduce waste


manufacture requires less fibre raw material and therefore less water and energy. Lightweight boards are lighter to transport and generate less waste. The lightweight board enables customers to reduce the carbon footprint of their own operations and use less raw material in packaging manufacturing.


HOW METSÄ BOARD CAN HELP CUSTOMERS TO FURTHER IMPROVE THEIR SUSTAINABILITY CREDENTIALS Metsä Board can help customers by providing packaging analyses that offers recommendations and calculations for use of lighter weight paperboards for a specific package. In addition, Metsä Board’s design


service can give expert suggestions on optimising structural and packaging designs that can help to eliminate unnecessary packaging. Transparency is important. All Metsä


Board’s boards have paper profiles, explaining the place of manufacture, raw materials such as the origin of wood and pulps, and certification schemes.


METSA BOARD IS LEADING THE WAY IN SUSTAINABILITY Metsä Board recently published ambitious sustainability targets for 2030 including a commitment to achieve fossil free mills by 2030 with zero fossil CO2 emissions. Metsä Board was awarded the Gold level rating by EcoVadis for the third consecutive year for its approach to sustainability and corporate social responsibility in November 2019 with Metsä Board, once again, achieving a place on CDP's prestigious ‘A List’ for climate change in January 2020.


METSÄ BOARD – IDEALLY POSITIONED TO HELP As public support gathers behind the call to address climate change, industries are increasingly looking at what they can do to operate more sustainably. Metsä Board is proud to be leading the


way and can help clients with these big issues through the use of lighter-weight paperboards, offering advice on optimising structural and material packaging design, and helping to eliminate unnecessary packaging and reduce waste – their experts are on hand to assist.


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