Metsä Board, HEIDELBERG Announce Strategic Collaboration Norwalk, Connecticut based Metsä Board, a leading Eu- ropean producer of premium fresh fiber paperboards, in- cluding folding boxboards, foodservice boards, and white kraftliners, and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEI- DELBERG), a global market leader in integrated, future ready solutions for the printing, packaging and converting industries, have entered into a strategic collaboration.
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The collaboration will include joint R&D projects, pilot production runs and customer demonstrations at HEIDEL- BERG’s Print Media Centers, as well as Metsä Board’s Ex- cellence Centre and Design Studios. By combining Metsä Board’s expertise in high quality, lightweight paperboard materials with HEIDELBERG’s ad- vanced offset, flexographic, digital printing and converting technologies, the partnership aims to accelerate innova- tion across the packaging value chain while opening 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,” says Erja Hyrsky, SVP, Commercial Operations at Metsä Board. “Working closely with HEIDELBERG as a system inte- grator enables faster development and testing of solutions that support our customers’ evolving packaging needs,” Hyrsky continues. Metsä Board’s recyclable, fresh fiber-based paper- boards, combined with HEIDELBERG’s efficient, high-per- formance production processes, provide a strong platform for developing packaging solutions that address increas- ing regulatory and performance requirements. “By combining advanced printing and converting tech- nologies with Metsä Board’s premium lightweight paper- board, HEIDELBERG enables high performance packaging applications for demanding market and regulatory require- ments,” says Andreas Lang, SVP, Global Accounts and Packaging, at HEIDELBERG. Through this collaboration, both companies aim to help customers develop future-ready packaging solutions in a rapidly evolving market. From left: Erkki Nyberg, Metsä Board; Maarten Florizoone, Metsä Board; Andreas Lang, HEIDELBERG; Erja Hyrsky, Metsä Board; and Elina Huopio, Metsä Board.
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