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Metsä Board – part of the Metsa Grouping announced on v June 2022 that it will establish a Paperboard and Packaging Excellence Centre in Äänekoski, Finland. The new centre will combine packaging design and R&D excellence under the same roof to exist able to boost the development of new paperboard and packaging solutions of the future.

"The new Excellence Centre will enable a broad multifariousness of collaboration, especially in the area of holistic packaging design, throughout the value chain. Nosotros will exist able to organise packaging design workshops and innovation days together with our customers and partners in social club to demonstrate the total potential of our lightweight, fresh fibre paperboards," said Sari Pajari, SVP Sales and Marketing, Metsä Board.

The centre is perfectly situated in a bioeconomy ecosystem which is unique in the world. The site is shared with many businesses including Metsä Group'southward next-generation bioproduct manufactory, Metsä Board'due south board factory, the Pro Nemus visitor center and a demo plant for Metsä Jump and Japanese Itochu Corporation that volition kickoff the production of material fibres at the cease of 2019.

The Excellence Centre will include offices, a laboratory, R&D facilities and a packaging design studio with modernistic engineering, also as the customer feedback centre. The project will proceed with construction planning starting in the summer with the aim for the centre to be operational in 2020.

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