Our entire existence rests on our customers. We are responsible for ensuring that our products and services are developed to fulfil the highest demands in terms of quality, function, safety and the environment.
Billerud’s packaging paper from renewable and climate-friendly forest raw materials is an alternative to fossil-based packaging material. Innovation is a cornerstone of Billerud’s strategy.
Innovative product development means Billerud is able to manufacture packaging materials with new and improved properties, helping the entire industry to use fossil-based plastics, for example, to a lesser extent.
Billerud’s products have a positive effect on the environment and resource management in many ways:
- Renewable and climate-friendly raw materials. Billerud’s products come from renewable wood raw materials from active and sustainable forestry where growing trees absorb carbon dioxide and so have a positive impact on the climate.
- High degree of innovation. Product development is based on innovative ideas, aiming to be able to offer renewable packaging material with new and improved properties. One example is Billerud FibreForm®, whose unique elasticity makes it an excellent alternative to fossil plastics in packaging, for example.
- Recyclable. Paper packaging, unlike many other types of packaging, can be composted, recycled into new products or used as a source of energy through incineration.
- Strong – resource optimisation. Billerud’s paper from primary fibre is comparatively strong. This means that the paper can be made thinner, so using less raw materials in the paper manufacturing
process and less materials in the packaging itself. This optimises resources at several stages of the process.
- Strong – reduces waste. The strong material protects the products, cutting down on resource loss and wastage. For example, most foodstuffs have a considerably greater negative environmental impact than the packaging that surrounds them.
- Strong – minimises transport. Billerud’s strong materials mean that packaging can be filled to a greater capacity and can also be stacked higher, increasing the amount that can be trans-ported.
The result is lower transport costs and lower emissions.
- Efficient. Billerud offers its customers training in resource-optimised packaging design and services that improve efficiency in the logistics chain.