Metsä Board introduces an enhanced model of its iconic MetsäBoard Traditional FBB.
Recognized and cherished for its secure high quality, stiffness and light-weight weight, MetsäBoard Traditional FBB is already a number one alternative for fast paced items, similar to meals and well being and private care packaging. Due to an roughly EUR 60 million modernisation of the Simpele folding boxboard mill, in Finland, it’ll now ship additional improved print high quality that extends the top use space of the grade to much more demanding print jobs.
Out there in October 2025
“By combining curtain coating and blade coating, the latest model of MetsäBoard Traditional FBB delivers extra visible uniformity and brighter and extra vivid photographs, which we imagine goes to assist our clients’ merchandise really stand out on retailer and pharmacy cabinets,” stated 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 expertise set up will happen throughout a scheduled upkeep shutdown in September 2025. The improved product might be accessible to clients in October 2025.
The Simpele mill, which produces MetsäBoard Traditional FBB, is already 89% fossil-free and that quantity is estimated to achieve 98% by the top of 2025.
“The board is a giant a part of our clients’ merchandise, so if we don’t push ourselves ahead in our fossil CO2 targets, our clients could have a tough time reducing their Scope 3 CO2 emissions and assembly their sustainability targets,” Florizoone says. “I believe this can set the tone for future developments each in and outdoors of the corporate. Any individual wants to steer the pack and this product will do this,” says Florizoone.
