Stora Enso announced plans to form a specialty papers business group within its Packaging Boards Division. The new group will include the Stevens Point mill; the Uetersen paper machine, located in Germany; and the Imatra paper machine, located in Finland.
Additionally, the new division will market specialty paper from the company’s Kimberly mill paper machine No. 95. Total production capacity of the new group will be around 330,000 metric tons.
Products of the new Specialty Papers Business Group are flexible packaging, technical papers and label papers. The Specialty Papers Business Group will account for approximately 10 percent of the Packaging Boards Division's sales.
The annual production capacity of the Packaging Boards Division is 3.3 million metric tons of board and paper, 300 000 metric tons of corrugated packaging and 160,000 metric tons of cores; it also produces 2.2 million metric tons of chemical pulp.
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