BillerudKorsnäs subject to European Commission inspection

Today, the European Commission initiated an inspection of BillerudKorsnäs under EU competition rules as part of a larger investigation of the market for bleached and unbleached kraft papers.

BillerudKorsnäs cooperates in full with the European Commission.

For further information, please contact:

Per Lindberg, CEO and President, +46 8 553 335 00

Henrik Essén, SVP Communication and Sustainability, +46 8 553 335 00

This information is information that BillerudKorsnäs AB is obliged to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out above, at 13.35 CET on March 7th 2016. 

BillerudKorsnäs provides packaging materials and solutions that challenge conventional packaging for a sustainable future. We are a world-leading provider of primary fibre based packaging materials and have customers in over 100 countries. The company has 7 production sites in Sweden, Finland and the UK and about 4 300 employees in over 13 countries. BillerudKorsnäs has an annual turnover of about SEK 22 billion and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. www.billerudkorsnas.com