Mets\u00e4 Board, a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards, including folding boxboards, foodservice boards and white kraftliners, and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG), a global market leader in integrated, future\u2011ready solutions for the printing, packaging and converting industries, have entered into a strategic collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The collaboration seeks to enhance the end\u2011to\u2011end value chain of packaging production by developing innovative packaging solutions that improve both operational performance and the consumer experience. It includes joint R&D projects, pilot production runs and customer demonstrations at HEIDELBERG\u2019s Print Media Centres as well as Mets\u00e4 Board\u2019s Excellence Centre and Design Studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New opportunities for customers to achieve high productivity and efficient production workflows<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n By combining Mets\u00e4 Board\u2019s expertise in high\u2011quality, lightweight paperboard materials with HEIDELBERG\u2019s advanced offset, flexographic, digital printing and converting technologies, the partnership aims to accelerate innovation across the packaging value chain while opening up new opportunities for customers to achieve high productivity and efficient production workflows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “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 Mets\u00e4 Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Working closely with HEIDELBERG as a system integrator enables faster development and testing of solutions that support our customers\u2019 evolving packaging needs,” Hyrsky continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Future-ready packaging solutions in a rapidly evolving market<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mets\u00e4 Board\u2019s recyclable, fresh fibre-based paperboards, combined with HEIDELBERG\u2019s efficient, high-performance production processes, provide a strong platform for developing packaging solutions that address increasing regulatory and performance requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “By combining advanced printing and converting technologies with Mets\u00e4 Board\u2019s premium lightweight paperboard, HEIDELBERG enables high\u2011performance packaging applications for demanding market and regulatory requirements” says Andreas Lang<\/strong>, SVP, Global Accounts and Packaging, at HEIDELBERG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through this collaboration, both companies aim to support customers in developing future-ready packaging solutions in a rapidly evolving market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe cooperation combines materials expertise and production technology for demanding packaging applications, Lang concludes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mets\u00e4 Board, a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards, including folding boxboards, foodservice boards and white kraftliners, and Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG), a global market leader in integrated, future\u2011ready solutions for the printing, packaging and converting industries, have entered into a strategic collaboration. The collaboration seeks to enhance the end\u2011to\u2011end value chain of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,65],"tags":[124,333,51],"class_list":{"0":"post-22191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-finance","8":"category-corrugated-folding-carton","9":"tag-heidelberg","10":"tag-metsa-board","11":"tag-top-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22193,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22191\/revisions\/22193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}