Metsä Board and Heidelberg strategic collaboration combines materials and machinery to deliver greater customer value

Packaging Solutions

Metsä Board and Heidelberg have entered into a strategic collaboration.

The collaboration seeks to enhance the end to end value chain of packaging production by developing innovative packaging solutions that improve both operational performance and the consumer experience. It includes joint research and development projects, pilot production runs and customer demonstrations at Heidelberg’s Print Media Centre, as well as Metsä Board’s Excellence Centre and Design Studios.

By combining expertise in high quality, lightweight paperboard materials with advanced offset, flexographic, digital printing and converting technologies, the partnership aims to accelerate innovation across the packaging value chain while opening up new opportunities for customers to achieve high productivity and efficient production workflows.

‘Our collaboration with Heidelberg allows us to offer our customers new possibilities in packaging design and production efficiency, while maintaining our commitment to sustainability and premium quality,’ said Erja Hyrsky, senior vice president, commercial operations at Metsä Board. ‘Working closely with Heidelberg as a system integrator enables faster development and testing of solutions that support our customers’ evolving packaging needs.’

Metsä Board’s recyclable, fresh fibre based paperboards, combined with Heidelberg’s efficient, high performance production processes, provide a strong platform for developing packaging solutions that address increasing regulatory and performance requirements.

‘By combining advanced printing and converting technologies with Metsä Board’s premium lightweight paperboard, Heidelberg enables high performance packaging applications for demanding market and regulatory requirements,’ said Andreas Lang, senior vice president, global accounts and packaging, at Heidelberg.

Through this collaboration, both companies aim to support customers in developing future ready packaging solutions in a rapidly evolving market.