Smurfit Kappa is a paper packaging provider and recognized in the 2023 Packaging Gateway Awards for Environmental, Innovation and Investments, following its development of water-resistant products, the competition of a sustainability project and investment in manufacturing facilities.
One of the company’s notable new products is AquaStop, a sustainable water-resistant paper. The product can be recycled like other paper-based packaging solutions and is aimed at products that need temporary protection from water such as flowers, detergents and fruit and vegetables.
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The product is part of the company’s Better Planet Packaging portfolio, which is focused on providing sustainable alternatives to single-use plastics.
Other environmentally focused projects include the competition of a sustainability project at the company’s paper mill in Zülpich, Germany.
The company redesigned the plant’s multi-fuel boiler to use biogas for steam and electricity generation, a by-product of its circular water treatment plant, natural gas, and the residual materials.
The investment cuts carbon dioxide emissions by more than 25%, 2% of the company’s total, which it aims to reduce by 55% by 2030.
The company also invested €35m ($37.3m) to build a packaging plant in Rabat, Morocco. The 25,000m² facility will manufacture packaging for a range of sectors, including industrial, agriculture, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), automotive, pharmaceuticals and ceramics.
Company Profile
Smurfit Kappa is a provider of paper packaging solutions.
It manufactures, distributes and markets corrugated containers, container boards and other paper-based packaging products.
The company’s product offerings include graphic and solid boards, paper bags, protective packaging products, container boards, kraftliners, corrugated and packaging products.
It also offers recovered papers, packaging machinery, pulp, testliners, preprinted liners, retail packaging, postal packaging, point of sale displays, seedlings, and bag-in-box.
The company also provides services such as packaging design and consultancy services, supply chain optimization, packaging fulfillment, packaging machinery consultancy and recycling.
It operates paper mills, recovered fiber facilities and converting plants in Europe and the Americas.
Smurfit Kappa is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.
