Metsä Board, part of the Metsa Group, will establish a Paperboard and Packaging Excellence Center in Äänekoski, Finland.
The new centre will combine packaging design and R&D under the same roof to be able to boost the development of new paperboard and packaging solutions of the future, according to Metsä Board.
‘The new Excellence Centre will enable a wide variety of collaboration, especially in the area of holistic packaging design, throughout the value chain. We will be able to organise packaging design workshops and innovation days together with our customers and partners in order to demonstrate the full potential of our lightweight, fibre paperboards’, said Sari Pajari, SVP Sales and Marketing, Metsä Board.
2020
The centre is situated in a bioeconomy ecosystem and will include offices, a laboratory, R&D facilities and a packaging design studio, as well as a customer feedback centre. The construction start is planned for this summer with the aim for the centre to be operational in 2020.
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