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    . This recognition shows that we stand tall in Swedish industry and that our forward leaning perspective, long-term proactive sustainability work and high ambitions are appreciated.
    Matthew Hirst, EVP of Commercial and Sustainability at Billerud
    Our objective with PIDA is not just about strengthening ties between the schools and the industry, but also about contributing to a sustainable future by investing in initiatives which increase the overall proficiency of the industry
    Agneta Rognli, Marketing Manager, BillerudKorsnäs
    The students have an innovative perspective and through the competition, we learn about future demands on our industry. PIDA is thus an important initiative for both industry and future packaging designers alike
    Agneta Rognli, Marketing Manager, BillerudKorsnäs
    given a choice between plastic and paper, we believe that our products can contribute to solutions against both plastic littering as well as climate change, two of our times largest sustainability challenges
    Henrik Essén, Director of Sustainability, BillerudKorsnäs
    The results of the study challenge a common misconception that the production of paper packaging is more energy consuming and environmentally detrimental than the production of plastic packaging.
    Lena Dahlgren, project manager, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
    We will be able to engage industry professionals and the general public in a way that we never have done before. Anyone who is moved by what we say can simply click, post, share and comment via social media”,
    Peter Malmqvist, Marketing Director, BillerudKorsnäs
    “We want the audience to associate us with fresh thinking and smarter packaging solutions with economic and sustainability advantages. We believe that the best way to do so is to show what we have achieved and realized over the past couple of years, as well as to give the audience a flavour of what we have on our agenda”,
    Peter Malmqvist, Marketing Director, BillerudKorsnäs
    We share a vision of a future in which plastics in the ocean is an issue of the past
    Henrik Essén, Director Communications and Sustainibility, BillerudKorsnäs
    We want to communicate how our innovation agenda and our products can contribute to the solution of the plastic waste in ocean.
    Henrik Essén, Director Communications and Sustainibility, BillerudKorsnäs
    Our goals with the results of this research are to inform the public that a change in behaviour is crucial. We also hope to influence decision-makers to regulate and reduce plastic littering in the oceans as well as to encourage industries to develop innovative alternatives to plastic.
    Romain Troublé, Secretary General, Tara Expeditions
    “I’m delighted with these two awards. They’re proof that we’ve managed to maintain a high standard in our communication with the capital market, which is particularly pleasing because 2012 has been an intense year for Billerud on the acquisitions front.”
    Sophie Arnius, IR manager Billerud
    “The importance of product packaging is growing all the time. SPICE fits in well with Billerud’s customer offer: to develop smart, sustainable, value adding packaging. It gives us a unique opportunity to build a close relationship between the designers of the future and our products.”
    Jimmy Nyström, Business Development Director at Billerud
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    Students create packaging of the future in annual design competition PIDA arranged by BillerudKorsnäs

    What will a sustainable and exciting packaging concept look like in 2030? Most likely we will see many and innovative answers to that question at PIDA (Packaging Impact Design Award), the international design competition arranged and hosted by BillerudKorsnäs. In this year’s edition of PIDA, the brief encourages the participating students to gaze into the future and create an innovative, functional and sustainable packaging concept to solve a problem of the future.“We have to start today if we want to find tomorrow’s solutions. Change doesn’t happen overnight. Design for the future means to

    Smart packaging for food-on-the-go wins PIDA Germany

    This year’s winner of the BillerudKorsnäs PIDA Germany design competition is a team from Stuttgart Media University. The winning students succeeded in creating a smart and attractive packaging solution for food on the go, called Ladhid.BillerudKorsnäs’ Packaging Impact Design Award (PIDA) has been running for more than 10 years and is organised in cooperation with leading universities and colleges in France, Germany, and Sweden. The competition highlights innovative packaging solutions and takes place three times per year, once in each of the participating countries. This year’s theme was

    Concept for hipsters on-the-go wins Packaging Impact Design Award, PIDA 2015

    This year’s Swedish edition of the packaging competition PIDA was a well-attended forum where talented young packaging designers presented their ideas and concepts to industry influencers in search of fresh ideas and perspectives. The jury chose the hipster friendly creation Raw Food Café by Katarina Häll and Joakim Tidén at Broby Grafiska as the winning concept, in all categories. The competition is an initiative supported by BillerudKorsnäs, a leading provider of fiber based packaging material and solutions.Packaging for trendy people on-the-goWith an increasingly flexible and mobile

    BillerudKorsnäs launches an engaging digital campaign -  Clarifies mission to challenge the conventional for a sustainable future

    Leading provider of packaging solutions and materials, BillerudKorsnäs, unveils its first ever brand campaign today. The brand campaign will primarily target customers and customers’ customers in an aim to elucidate the company’s mission, increase brand awareness, boost brand preference and position the brand forward in the value chain.“It has been two and a half years since BillerudKorsnäs was formed and we are now ready to communicate our brand mission more explicitly than we have done so far. We have evolved from Billlerud and Korsnäs, two paper and board manufacturing companies, into a

    Road-trip concept for Spotify wins packaging competition

    A pop-up store made from BillerudKorsnäs material and designed for use in petrol stations has won the top prize when students from Berghs School of Communication competed to package the digital music service Spotify.Throughout autumn, students at Berghs School of Communication have been participating in a contest to find the best analogue packaging solution for the digital music service Spotify. The competition, dubbed SPICE:14, was held across September and October in partnership between Berghs, Spotify and BillerudKorsnäs. Road Trip winnerA total of 12 teams participated in the event,

    Students help Spotify to get physical

    Competition gets underway today in this year’s SPICE sustainable packaging competition, arranged by BillerudKorsnäs and Berghs Schools of Communication. Students at the school face the intriguing challenge of creating an innovative and sustainable packaging solution for digital music service Spotify.Digital music provider Spotify has a product that exists purely in the digital sphere. So, if you were to create a physical presence for it, what form would it take? That’s the challenge students at Berghs School of Communication face today as the SPICE: 14 packaging design competition gets

    On track to reach synergy targets ahead of plan

    CEO Per Lindberg comments on the development during Q3 2013: “Third quarter’s results show a stable performance. Our adjusted operating profit reached SEK 331 million corresponding to an adjusted operating margin of 7% which, taking the negative impact from the planned maintenance shutdowns into consideration is satisfactory. The quarter has been very eventful in our production units with two planned maintenance shutdowns in Karlsborg and Skärblacka. After some delay in Skärblacka in connection with the major rebuild, all machines are now up and running again and performing as planned.

    Invitation to press and analyst conference – Q3 2013

    BillerudKorsnäs’ Interim Report for January-September 2013 will be published on Wednesday 30 October at approximately 07.00 CET. At 10.00 CET on the same day, Per Lindberg, President and CEO, and Susanne Lithander, CFO, will present the Interim Report at a press and analyst conference. The presentation will be held in English and will be followed by a Q&A session. The presentation material will be available at BillerudKorsnäs’ website. Venue: Tändstickspalatset, Västra Trädgårdsgatan 15, Stockholm To participate, please e-mail gssc@nasdaqomx.com The press and analyst conference

    Divestment of paper machine in Gävle completed

    BillerudKorsnäs’ divestment of paper machine PM2 at the Group’s Gävle production unit, to SwedPaper AB, has been approved by the appropriate competition authorities and the transaction has now been completed.The transaction fulfils the requirement set by the European Commission for approval of the combination between Billerud and Korsnäs, and PM2 at the Gävle unit has now been divested to SwedPaper. Other operations at the Gävle production unit will not be affected by the sale and will remain unchanged in BillerudKorsnäs’ ownership. Following the divestment, BillerudKorsnäs will, for

    Already half way to realising synergy target

    CEO Per Lindberg comments on the development during Q2 2013:   “We continue to focus on integration and to create the new BillerudKorsnäs. I am therefore first and foremost very pleased to see that we have realised synergies corresponding to an annual pace of approximately SEK 260 million, which takes us almost half way to our target of SEK 530 million. This means that integration is making good progress. We have also received approval from the EU Commission to sell PM2 in Gävle to SwedPaper and we expect closing on 1 August, thus fulfilling the formal requirements from the authorities

    Financial calendar for 2014 and date of AGM

    BillerudKorsnäs’ financial calendar for 2014 will be as follows: Year-end report 2013                                                          18 February 2014 Interim report January-March 2014                                     24 April 2014 Interim report January-June 2014                                       21 July 2014 Interim report January-September 2014                             28 October 2014 The Annual General Meeting will be held on 6 May 2014. For further information, please contact: Sophie Arnius, Investor Relations & Financial Media Director, +46 8

    Eventful quarter rounds off a historic year

    CEO Per Lindberg comments on the development during Q4 2012: “With the finalization of the historic combination between Billerud and Korsnäs, the fourth quarter was an unusually eventful one. We also completed the integration of our paper machines in Finland during the quarter. The integration process at BillerudKorsnäs progresses as planned, and from the next quarter on we will start to report the benefits of our synergies. The synergies for the two acquisitions are estimated at approximately SEK 330 million annually, with full impact from the end of 2015. Our preferential rights

    Change in the total number of shares and votes in BillerudKorsnäs AB (publ)

    In January 2013, the number of shares and votes in BillerudKorsnäs AB (publ) increased by 68,833,629 as a result of the rights issue which was resolved on by the board on 29 November 2012, making use of the authorisation by the extraordinary general meeting on 14 September 2012. As of 31 January 2013 the share capital in BillerudKorsnäs AB (publ) amounts to SEK 1,537,642,792.48, divided among 208,219,834 shares. The total number of votes in BillerudKorsnäs AB (publ) as of 31 January 2013 amounts to 208,219,834 (although the total number of shares and votes amounts to 206,500,887 if the 1,

    Smart packaging – filled with baby food!

    This was the winning entry in this year’s Billerud design competition SPICE: 12 at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm.This is the third year in succession that Billerud, the design agency NINE and Berghs School of Communication have organised the SPICE (Sustainable Packaging & Innovation Communication Event) design competition. Over the course of six weeks, 12 teams of students of graphic design and project management have been working on this year’s challenge – to improve food company Semper’s existing baby food packaging and associated storage jars. ”It’s been a really

    Invitation to press and analyst conference – Q3 2012

    Billerud’s Interim Report for January-September 2012 will be published on Thursday 25 October at approximately 07.00 CET. At 10.00 CET on the same day, Per Lindberg, President and CEO, and Susanne Lithander, CFO, will present the Interim Report at a press and analyst conference. The presentation will be held in English and will be followed by a Q&A session. The presentation material will be available at Billerud’s website. Venue: Tändstickspalatset, Västra Trädgårdsgatan 15, Stockholm To participate, please e-mail Maria Mattsson at maria.mattsson@nasdaqomx.com or call +46 70 438 88

    Tough end to a good year

    CEO Per Lindberg comments on the development during Q4 2011: “2011 was an interesting and challenging year. It started very positively with high demand and rising prices which resulted in very strong earnings. The year ended more moderately after a fall in demand in the summer and autumn, price pressure on packaging paper, falling pulp prices and decreasing customer stocks. The consequence of this was that we generated an operating margin of only 4% in the fourth quarter. Operating profit was affected by a periodic maintenance shutdown in Gruvön, market-related production shutdowns, a 4%

    Four elements take home the victory in SPICE:11 – Billerud and NINE’s packaging contest in association with Berghs

    The winners of Billerud, NINE’s and Berghs School of Communication SPICE:11 contest based their entry on the words ‘playful’, ‘different’ and ‘smart’ when developing the winning packaging for Orrefors Kosta Boda. Using the four elements of glass blowing as a graphic profile, where earth and fire represent Kosta Boda and wind and water Orrefors, they managed to conceptualise a packaging solution that offered both innovation and functionality.Smarter packaging is an ideas carrier and has become an increasingly important means of competition when a large number of brands want to communicate,

    Design Challenge 2011 award to Chesapeake pack based on Billerud FibreForm®

    Chesapeake’s Impressions™, a unique renewable packaging range based on Billerud’s FibreForm®, won Design Challenge 2011 at the largest packaging exhibition in the Nordic countries, Pack & Emballage. The winning packaging concept was selected by the people visiting the exhibition, when asked to vote on their personal favorite.Chesapeake has developed the FibreForm material to offer its customers unique paperboard concepts that can provide truly dynamic 3D shapes to any pack. “We are delighted that people from the industry who are packaging professionals have selected our product as

    The top design award in the world of packaging goes to NINE, Billerud’s innovation and design agency

    The NINE innovation and design agency, in which Billerud is the main shareholder, has been awarded Pentaward’s Best of the Show for its work on Ramlösa premium PET. This international packaging design contest is being held for the fifth year in a row, with prizes awarded in platinum, gold, silver and bronze categories, plus a diamond (best of the show) award to the best entry in all categories.“We are delighted to have won this award. It goes to show that NINE is a truly interesting innovation partner for brand owners who have understood the importance of smarter packaging as a competitive

    New agreement with leading packaging company

    Billerud Fresh Services AB has signed an agreement with Carmel Container Systems Ltd. from the Hadera Paper Group to become a member of the Fresh Box Alliance.Carmel Container Systems Ltd., a leading packaging company in Israel, has recently signed up as a full member of the Fresh Box Alliance. This alliance is a global network of select, top-quality packaging manufacturers working for the worldwide fresh produce industry. Members of the alliance have access to an optimised supply chain management concept called SoliQ™, specifically created for the global fresh produce industry.

    Investment extends Billerud’s packaging solutions to Asia

    Billerud is strengthening its position within the packaging industry by investing in a minority stake in PACCESS Packaging, a US based company with numerous operations throughout Asia. This investment is well in line with Billerud’s strategy to be a customer- and solution-driven company where brand owners are becoming an increasingly important customer group. This new service platform will enhance Billerud’s presence in Asia, one of the world’s largest and fastest growing packaging markets.Billerud has signed an agreement to do an investment corresponding to 30% in the packaging company

    First packaging design competition at Berghs School of Communication now settled

    Billerud has initiated a long-term collaboration with Berghs School of Communication. The purpose is both to contribute knowledge about packaging development based on renewable materials, as well as to be inspired by outstanding students who will probably influence the packaging of the future.In October, some 50 students in graphic design, production and project management participated in the first Sustainable Packaging Innovation & Communication Event 2010 (SPICE:10). The challenge was to develop a brand new packaging concept for LEAF, one of Europe's leading confectionery and chewing gum

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