Stora Enso has opened an Innovation Centre for packaging at its head office in Helsinki, targeting converters, manufacturers, brand owners and retailers.
Materials supplier Ahlstrom is investing €7m into its French based Stenay plant, which produces one-side coated papers for flexible and label packaging for the food and drink industry.
Ahlstrom's LabelPack division, one of Europe's main producers of
specialty papers for flexible packaging and labelling, has
announced a price increase of €100/tonne for all paper grades.