MetsäBoard Folding Box Board Range
MetsäBoard, the lightweight, sustainable folding box boards range from products with a natural feel to those with an impression of luxury. Their excellent performance ensures they are suitable for all types of applications and end-uses. The MetsäBoard range's excellent performance ensures it is suitable If you are looking for packaging that efficiently enhances valuable brands, or is pure for sensitive products, we have a board grade perfect for you.
All boards are made from fresh fibres, which can be traced back to their source in sustainably managed northern forests. Folding box board is recognised as being made from a renewable material and being recyclable, giving it an important role in the circular economy.
Better with less
MetsäBoard folding box boards provide amazing performance and strength, allowing you to minimise the board weight requirements for your projects.
Through special manufacturing processes, technical innovations and raw material selection, they are able to match the stiffness, strength and caliper of higher grammage cartonboards.
At the same time, the superb printability, aesthetics and foldability recognised with MetsäBoard products continue to give fantastic results for your packaging or graphical applications.
Wide range
Full spectrum of grades to suit your needs, from products with a natural feel through to ultimate luxury with maximum whiteness and print quality.
Classic combines reliable performance with excellent value for money, ideal for fast moving consumer goods requiring good shelf visibility and safety for food use.
Prime is the choice for premium high-end brands, combining excellent brightness and surface smoothness characteristics to help achieve world-class printing, converting and special effects.
Diverse applications
MetsäBoard folding box boards are perfect products for consumer goods packaging, which must stand out on the shelf and protect the product throughout the value chain.
Great choice also for display and point-of-sale solutions requiring good strength and stiffness or for graphical applications needing the most demanding print and special finishes.
Whether you are using conventional or digital print technologies, MetsäBoard folding box boards are the perfect choice.
Strong environmental features
MetsäBoard’s products are safe throughout their life cycle, with regards to both their manufacturing and the raw materials they contain. The traceability of the raw materials used in manufacturing is particularly important for paperboards that will be in contact with food. MetsäBoard knows the origins of all the raw materials that it uses, including wood, pulp and chemicals.
The requirements and regulations for materials in contact with food are only a starting point. MetsäBoard’s products meet the strictest international standards, and often surpass the requirements of local or regional legislation. MetsäBoard’s paperboards and the chemicals used to manufacture them do not contain any harmful compounds.
MetsäBoard Prime FBB EB
MetsäBoard’s dispersion barrier coated paperboard helps reduce plastic and can be easily recycled in paper or paperboard waste streams. MetsäBoard Prime FBB EB ticks all the boxes for premium packaging, especially in food and food service end uses, where medium grease and moisture barrier are needed. It accelerates the circular economy by making recycling easier, whilst eliminating plastics and reducing carbon footprint.
Technical details
- Plastic-reducing option for packaging - MetsäBoard Prime FBB EB enables customers to reduce plastics in end uses requiring medium barrier properties.
- Recyclable with paper or paperboard - The dispersion barrier coating makes recycling easy, ecological and cost-efficient.
- Protective and strong, yet lightweight - A medium grease and moisture barrier as well as unique opportunities for sustainability and yield gains.
- Safe for direct food contact - Made of pure and fully traceable fresh fibre with no fluorochemicals or optical brighteners (OBA).
- Engaging brand experience - The brightest OBA-free board on the market, with excellent printability
Applications
- Food service: hamburgers, nuggets, chips and other takeaway food
- Fresh food: salads, sandwiches, sushi, donuts, cakes, bakery products, vegetables, fruit, berries
- Dry food: muesli, cereals, cookies, chocolate, candy
- Frozen food: ice cream, fish and seafood, fish fingers, pizza and ready meals
- Other applications, such as soap or secondary packaging for various applications
- Please test your specific application
1) Double blade coating
2) Bleached chemical pulp**
3) Bleached chemi-thermo-mechanical pulp (BCTMP)**
4) Bleached chemical pulp**
5) Dispersion barrier coating
Features & Benefits
- Double blade coating on the top side for offset or flexo printing
- Dispersion barrier coating on the reverse side
- Hard-sized to prevent edge penetration
- Glueable with standard dispersion and hotmelt adhesives
- Light weight for better yield, resource efficiency and reduced CO2 footprint
- Consistent quality for efficient printing and converting
- Available in a basis weight range of 195–320 g/m2
Test Kit
Our MetsäBoard Prime FBB EB test kit enables you to experience the strength and performance of this grease and moisture barrier board. Adaptable, the A4 tray can be set into various partition areas to suit your product size and test multiple durations of food contact, for example. Use the provided labels to identify your tests and record their timeframes.
