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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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    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

    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,

    BillerudKorsnäs wants to cut food waste – joins SAVE FOOD

    BillerudKorsnäs has joined SAVE FOOD, a UN supported global initiative on food loss and waste. With smarter packaging solutions, BillerudKorsnäs contributes to a significant reduction in waste."A key component of BillerudKorsnäs’ development work on smarter packaging solutions involves a focus on improved food transport. Consequently, it is a natural step for us to be part of Save Food", says Henrik Essén, Senior Vice President, Communication and Sustainability. Save Food – a UN supported global initiative on food loss and waste – was launched in 2011 and aims to reduce the amount of food

    BillerudKorsnäs wins Product Development award at Lafarge Global Supplier Awards 2014

    BillerudKorsnäs is the proud winner of this year’s Product Development award at the Lafarge Global Supplier Awards held in Paris on September 17th 2014Lafarge, the world in leader in building materials, rewarded the work done in close partnership between the Lafarge Research Centre in Lyon and the BillerudKorsnäs Sack Lab Sweden on the development of a new packaging solution. Lafarge awarded 7 suppliers under different categories after an evaluation of 75 global suppliers. Carlos Espina, Senior Vice President, Research and Development at Lafarge praised the Product Development award

    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

    Invitation to press and analyst conference – Q2 2013

    BillerudKorsnäs’ Interim Report for January-June 2013 will be published on Thursday 18 July at approximately 10.00 CET. At 11.00 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@nasadqomx.com. The press and analyst conference can also

    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

    Annual General Meeting in BillerudKorsnäs AB (publ)

    BillerudKorsnäs AB (publ) have today, 7 May, held its annual general meeting. The following resolutions were made at the meeting.Adoption of income statement and balance sheet, resolution on dividendAt the Annual General Meeting, the income statement and the balance sheet as well as the consolidated income statement and consolidated balance sheet for 2012 were adopted. In accordance with the Board’s proposal, the meeting decided that SEK 2 per share should be distributed to the shareholders and that the record date for the dividend should be 13 May 2013. The dividend is estimated to be

    Sale of paper machine in Gävle

    In order to satisfy one of the conditions set by the EU Commission for approval of the combination between Billerud and Korsnäs, an agreement has been signed with SwedPaper AB ("SwedPaper") concerning divestment of a paper machine (PM2) at the Gävle production unit. Production at PM2 in 2012 accounted for approximately 2% of BillerudKorsnäs’ total combined sales volume.Under the agreement, PM2 at the Gävle production unit will be sold to SwedPaper. The machine produces kraft and sack paper. The PM2 operation employs approximately 60 people, who will be offered employment with SwedPaper.

    Invitation to press and analyst conference – Q1 2013

    BillerudKorsnäs’ Interim Report for January-March 2013 will be published on Tuesday 23 April 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 Maria Mattsson at maria.mattsson@nasdaqomx.com or call +46 70

    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,

    Invitation to press and analyst conference – Q4 2012

    BillerudKorsnäs’ Year-end Report for January-December 2012 will be published on Friday 8 February at approximately 12.30 CET. At 14.30 CET on the same day, Per Lindberg, President and CEO, and Susanne Lithander, CFO, will present the Year-end 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 Maria Mattsson at maria.mattsson@nasdaqomx.com orcall

    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

    Strong earnings and very strong cash flow

    CEO Per Lindberg comments on the development during Q3 2011: “Billerud can deliver yet another strong result for the third quarter with an operating margin of 13%. Cash flow from operating activities amounted to SEK 531 million, which is very strong. Operating profit for the quarter of SEK 296 million means that earnings for the third quarter were just as strong as in the previous quarters in 2011. This was achieved despite periodic maintenance and market-related shutdowns. So the weaker market situation during the quarter was not reflected in the figures. In the packaging paper segments,

    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

    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.

    SoliQ, a unique service concept for the Global Produce Supply Chain

    Billerud Fresh Services is now launching SoliQ™, a unique service concept focusing on optimising the Global Produce Supply Chain, from growers to retailers. SoliQ has been developed to substantially reduce losses linked to under-performing packaging during transport, to allow greater efficiency and lower environmental impact.SoliQ™ is an optimised corrugated packaging concept, developed by the Billerud Box Lab, and the direct result of Billerud’s close work with the value chain for fruit and vegetables. But this is just one part of the SoliQ concept. Sensors are also used to follow the

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