Metsä Board enhances signature board: improved printability, lowered footprint

Metsä Board introduces an enhanced model of its iconic MetsäBoard Basic FBB.

Identified and beloved for its steady high quality, stiffness and light-weight weight, MetsäBoard Basic FBB is already a number one alternative for fast paced items, equivalent 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’s going to now ship additional improved print high quality that extends the top use space of the grade to much more demanding print jobs.

Obtainable in October 2025

“By combining curtain coating and blade coating, the most recent model of MetsäBoard Basic FBB delivers extra visible uniformity and brighter and extra vivid photos, which we consider goes to assist our clients’ merchandise actually 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 know-how set up will happen throughout a scheduled upkeep shutdown in September 2025. The improved product shall be obtainable to clients in October 2025.

The Simpele mill, which produces MetsäBoard Basic FBB, is already 89% fossil-free and that quantity is estimated to succeed in 98% by the top of 2025.

“The board is an enormous a part of our clients’ merchandise, so if we don’t push ourselves ahead in our fossil CO2 targets, our clients can have a tough time reducing their Scope 3 CO2 emissions and assembly their sustainability targets,” Florizoone says. “I feel it will set the tone for future developments each in and out of doors of the corporate. Anyone wants to guide the pack and this product will try this,” says Florizoone.