Metsä Board introduces an enhanced model of its iconic MetsäBoard Traditional FBB.
Recognized and liked for its secure high quality, stiffness and light-weight weight, MetsäBoard Traditional FBB is already a number one selection for fast paced items, reminiscent of meals and well being and private care packaging. Because of an roughly EUR 60 million modernisation of the Simpele folding boxboard mill, in Finland, it should now ship additional improved print high quality that extends the tip use space of the grade to much more demanding print jobs.
Accessible in October 2025
“By combining curtain coating and blade coating, the most recent model of MetsäBoard Traditional FBB delivers extra visible uniformity and brighter and extra vivid photographs, which we consider goes to assist our prospects’ merchandise actually stand out on retailer and pharmacy cabinets,” mentioned Maarten Florizoone, Vice President, Development, Folding Boxboard at Metsä Board. “It’s kicking off a brand new period in folding boxboard.”
Work has already begun on the Simpele the mill website and the development part is ongoing. As soon as detailed engineering on the mill is accomplished, the know-how set up will happen throughout a scheduled upkeep shutdown in September 2025. The improved product can be accessible to prospects in October 2025.
The Simpele mill, which produces MetsäBoard Traditional FBB, is already 89% fossil-free and that quantity is estimated to succeed in 98% by the tip of 2025.
“The board is an enormous a part of our prospects’ merchandise, so if we don’t push ourselves ahead in our fossil CO2 targets, our prospects could have a tough time reducing their Scope 3 CO2 emissions and assembly their sustainability targets,” Florizoone says. “I believe this may set the tone for future developments each in and out of doors of the corporate. Any individual wants to steer the pack and this product will try this,” says Florizoone.
