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Korsnäs Wave is a unique paper material with special tactile qualities that opens up opportunities for brand owners to differentiate their packaging in a very special and unique way.

As the first company in the forest industry, Korsnäs introduces complete Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its entire range of products. It is an initiative that ensures transparency in terms of environmental performance and that invites to comparisons with materials with declarations complying with the same international documentation standard.

Innovative light-weight cartonboard offers business and environmental benefits Korsnäs today introduces Korsnäs Artisan, its new innovative lightweight cartonboard, offering quality luxurious packaging, in addition to business and environmental savings.

In a fast-changing and increasingly complex marketplace, the roles in the value chain of the packaging industry are evolving. Customers expect more, and for Korsnäs this has meant a shift from product orientation to solution orientation in customer relationships. The service and knowledge content represents a larger share of the value of the offer.

Financial results for the third quarter

At Luxe Pack 2011 Korsnäs introduces Korsnäs Artisan, a new cartonboard grade with a silky smooth surface and excellent printing capabilities. The new board has a very interesting soft touch allowing for new unique packaging experiences.

BAS – flour, seeds, baking seasoning and recipes, by Adam Ahlström, Barbro Norin, Ylva Falquist, Lisa Åkerman-Hoffman, Nackademin was the winner of PIDA - Packaging Impact Design Award - Sweden 2011.

Sometimes they design packaging that packs only communication. They make elaborate quality designs, often by hand, and customers find that it’s worth the money. And they use Korsnäs White.

Three colleges compete to win PIDA Sweden – Broby Grafiska in Sunne, Nackademin in Stockholm and Mälardalens Högskola in Eskilstuna. The schools have integrated the PIDA project in their regular curriculum, making use of the competitive spirit, the design challenge and the pedagogic advantages PIDA offers.

Even monsters need underwear and its packaging can be awarded a design prize. PIDA Germany 2010 included some truly innovative packaging concepts. The symposium had a focus on shelf impact and what qualities a package must have to sell the product.

Say “new and innovative packaging design” to people with insights into the packaging business in France, and you will probably hear the two abbreviations PIDA and IUT. To us at Korsnäs, this represents an exciting collaboration between young creativity and advanced technology training.

In her exhibition “Formleikur” María Manda freely crosses the boundaries between packaging, art and design, using Korsnäs White. “I wanted to emphasise on the construction, the shape, because most of the time people look at packaging and only see the graphic design,” María says.

European design students get a challenge: who can design the most clever and creative packaging? The competition currently runs in France, Germany, Spain and Sweden but ambitions are to expand into other countries too. PIDA has become a popular and vital part of the packaging design programme at the participating colleges.

PIDA, the Packaging Impact Design Award, is a success story entering its seventh year.

Improved product, improved service! Korsnäs Design, the highprintability fully coated White Top Kraftliner, is available for delivery within one week.

Korsnäs White and l’Occitane look like twin spirits: together they make a statement of authenticity.

You immediately recognise a perfect match when you see it. Korsnäs White and l’Occitane look like twin spirits: together they make a statement of authenticity. TEXT: ROLF STRIDH

Korsnäs’ longstanding relationship with UK -based manufacturer Papersticks Ltd has been beneficial in helping the UK company evolve into a niche supplier of Papersticks to the confectionery, pharmaceutical and food industries. TEXT: SALLY COUSINS

Luxe Pack is the foremost meeting point for the international premium product packaging industry. For a predominantly European audience, the venue is the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco. Luxe Pack exhibitions are also held in New York and Shanghai. So far Korsnäs has stayed with Monaco

Lightweighting – this may be the best business proposition you’ve had in a long time. Weight reduction in packaging saves money every step of the way along the value chain. It reduces environmental impact, too.

Each day at 11 a.m. Fabrice Peltier delivered a short lecture and invited visitors to discuss a few interesting aspects of packaging design – sophistication and seductiveness, sustainability and eco-thinking, and the challenge of designing limited series of packaging. Peltier is one of the big European names in packaging design. He certainly has the credentials of an authority on the subject.

31 March 2011: Financial results for the first quarter.

Italian company gps designs and manufactures shopping bags – customised and standard, in plastic and paper, for volume products as well as for highly exclusive brands.

Sucking on a lolly is one of life’s delights during childhood and many of us can probably remember peeling back the paper of the lolly stick and spreading the paper out. Shepperton-based Papersticks Ltd has thrived on this nostalgia by manufacturing a variety of different sized Papersticks for the confectionery and pharmaceutical industries, as well as for use as flag and balloon poles, toy car axles and candlemaking kits. Papersticks Ltd was first established over 60 years ago and was one of Korsnäs’ first uk customers when it started to sell its products into the uk market. This heritage has been an excellent foundation for the successful relationship between the companies over the years based on Korsnäs’ commitment to providing excellent quality Kraft paper.

Korsnäs is the first company in the forest industry to supply the market with complete environmental declarations for a broad range of products according to the international EPD standard. The international EPD system sets a standard for the methodology of measuring, compiling and presenting the particulars of environmental performance.

Korsnäs is the first company in the forest industry to supply the market with complete environmental declarations for a broad range of products according to the international EPD standard. The international EPD system sets a standard for the methodology of measuring, compiling and presenting the particulars of environmental performance.

Papersticks - Korsnäs ABC: A relationship based on consistent quality.

The best kept secret in luxury packaging – make it yours!

Korsnäs strategy is to serve the decorative part of the corrugating industry, mainly for presentation packaging, where visual impact is of utmost importance for the brand owner.

Come and meet us at Luxepack Shanghai 2011 on the 29th and 30th of March 2011. You will find us in booth B:14.

In a twenty-first century marketplace where excellence in print quality is increasingly important, the Korsnäs philosophy has become more and more relevant. Earlier this year at the efta Print Awards, a significant proportion of the winning designs were printed on Korsnäs coated liners.

“By improving the quality of the light barrier, we were able to minimise the risk of off-flavours and spoilage,” says TINE Dairy Cooperative engineer Ragnar Solgaard. “For consumers, flavour means everything.”

The Smurfit Kappa companies in Sweden comprise every single link in the packaging value chain. Smurfit Kappa in Nybro use Korsnäs Design for their most discerning customers.

Snacks have become a natural part of seeing a film and cinemas are attractive advertising locations for brands to be seen in. Besides easy handling, the PortaSnack™ packaging solution offers a branding opportunity – in this case for Empire Cinemas and Robinsons Fruit Shoot drinks. “The design and printing breathe quality and enhance the cinema experience,” says Gordon MacDonald, Retail Manager at Empire Cinemas.

Were you born with a silver spoon in your mouth? A teaspoon is enough. If so, you can purchase De Jaeger snail caviar: "A taste sensation that evokes a sense of walking in the forest after the rain, with hints of mushroom and moss"

A helpful office aid and an attractive advertising space – that’s how Terminic promotes its wall calendars. The first calendar, a clever design featuring a corporate advert and a three-month calendar, was developed way back in 1937 for Unterweser Reederei in Bremen, Germany. Aside from a WWII wartime pause, the company has been producing calendars and growing ever since.

At the heart of the concept, a shop display that combines many packs to produce a powerful impact and convince consumers to open their wallets. PIDA Germany was the final chapter of Korsnäs’ 2008 Packaging Impact Design Award competition. The event was held in mid-November and attracted 150 participants with an engaging programme.

The memories captured by scents such as ‘after a heavy rain’, ‘telling stories by the fire’ or ‘a summer evening in Provence’, or perhaps the scent of a tea or a particular beauty product – for many, these are moments of beauty and pleasure. Add fair trade and organic product certification to the mix and the result is terre d’Oc, a company with its roots in Provence and its mind open to other traditions and cultures. It offers a sympathetic concept built on harmony.

Autumn is the high season for Orthomol Immun®, a food for special medical purposes including antioxidants, vitamin D and minerals that strengthen the body’s immune defences against colds and flu. A combination of smart promotion and a seasonal peak of common cold caused a successful year.

Investment AB Kinnevik (publ) ("Kinnevik") today announces that, as a result of production disturbances in the fourth quarter, the production and operating profit in Korsnäs is lower than anticipated. Production was approximately 240 Ktonnes and the operating profit is expected to amount to approximately SEK 115-120 million in the fourth quarter 2010 (SEK 242 million). Operating profit for 2010 is still expected to increase to approximately SEK 925-930 million (SEK 851 million).