paper, cardboard, packaging, paper machines, tissue, printing
Smurfit Kappa Group plc (“SKG” or the “Group”) agrees to acquire Verzuolo, a containerboard business in Northern Italy, for a cash consideration of €360 million. The Verzuolo mill owned by the Burgo Group, is situated close to the port of Savona in the northwest of Italy. The PM9 machine was newly constructed in 2002 and converted into a 600,000 tonne capacity recycled containerboard machine in 2019.
On 28 May 1996, Progroup’s corrugated sheetfeeder plant PW02 in Douvrin near Lille started operating. Progroup founder and Chief Executive Officer Jürgen Heindl is using this anniversary as an opportunity to thank the 49 employees for their great commitment over the years by paying a Covid-safe visit to the site.
From 9 to 11 March 2021, the international corrugated and folding carton industry will gather at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in Germany for the 5th edition of CCE International, Europe’s only trade fair for manufacturing equipment in corrugated and carton board production.
Corrugated board is essential when it comes to packaging materials for shop-based retail. In addition to its value for transport and logistics, it also plays an important part in customer acquisition.
Metsä Board, the leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards, will be presenting its lightweight paperboards and innovative sustainable packaging solutions for packaging applications at FachPack 2019.
Metsä Board will highlight its enhanced folding boxboard portfolio released in April of this year. The new and improved FBB portfolio contains five premium boards with carefully considered features, for example, the improved high-yield pulp plays an important role in lightweighting the boards.
Johan Nellbeck has been appointed new Senior Vice President Paperboard at Holmen and will take up his post no later than the first of November.
Johan Nellbeck was most recently Senior Vice President and business area manager for Packaging Paper at BillerudKorsnäs, where he has worked since 2006.
Metsä Board – part of Metsä Group – has created a new, enhanced folding boxboard portfolio, designed specifically to help brand owners and packaging converters tackle the big issues in packaging: saving resources, reducing carbon footprint and ensuring product safety.
From 12 – 14 March 2019 the corrugated and folding carton industry will gather for the 4th edition of CCE International at the Munich Trade Fair Centre in Germany. More than 150 exhibitors from 23 countries have booked their stand space and occupy a net floor space of 5,000 m2. Featuring hundreds of exhibitor profiles and product information, the Show Preview is now available to all visitors in print and online. The printed version also includes the exhibition profile, an excerpt from the seminar programme and a professional article about inkjet in corrugated printing production.
