Kemiart Ultra boosts efficiency and brings savings

15/06/2007
Press release 15.6.2007

Kemiart Ultra has been the latest addition to Kemiart Liners' range of
high-performance coated white-top kraftliners. Feedback from M-real customers
shows that Kemiart Ultra can be postprinted without drying equipment and no
loss of efficiency in production.  Depending on the press equipment, printing
speeds from 6,000 to 15,000 sheets per hour have been achieved with in-line die
cutting. 

“By using Kemiart Ultra our customers are realising significant cost savings on
their energy bills”, says Koen Verplancke, Technical Sales Manager, M-real
Consumer Packaging.  “Dryers on flexo presses are very beneficial in terms of
efficiency and quality, but they consume a lot of energy, whereas Kemiart Ultra
gives good net printing speeds without the use of dryers. And like all our
Kemiart coated kraftliners, Ultra requires less energy from the corrugator's
heating system. Depending on the corrugator they use, customers can achieve
30-50% savings in their energy costs by using Kemiart liners. 

“And of course lower energy usage also reduces CO2 emissions, with benefits to
the wider environment”, adds Koen Verplancke. 

Kemiart Ultra offers a superb combination of graphics quality in flexo
postprint and high productivity at all stages of printing and converting
processes.  Kemiart Ultra's unique surface allows for much faster ink drying
times than conventional coated liners, and can handle higher ink volumes and
faster printing speeds than usually obtained with coated linerboards. 

M-real's Kemiart Liners are the global leader in coated white top kraftliners.
Kemiart products are designed to reproduce brand colours and graphics with the
utmost accuracy. End-uses for coated Kemiart liners include consumer durables
and branded food and beverages, as well as various display and shelf-ready
packaging solutions. 

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NOTES TO EDITORS:
The full range of Kemiart liners, available globally through M-real's sales and
logistics network, includes: 
Kemiart Graph: a coated liner for printing half-tone pictures and images that
require and benefit from high gloss and good colour density. 
Kemiart Lite: a coated liner that offers high ink density, gloss and
consistency. Kemiart Lite's surface allows flexo inks to dry very rapidly,
improving productivity in flexo post printing. 
Kemiart Ultra: a coated liner with high total productivity in corrugating and
printing. It is especially designed for conventional and in-line flexo
post-printing. 
Kemiart Brite: an uncoated white top liner with high strength in demanding
conditions and climates, good print quality and an optimal strength-to-weight
ratio. 

M-real Corporation, headquartered in Finland and employing over 13,000 people,
is a European paper and paperboard company, providing premium solutions for
consumer packaging, communications and advertising end-uses. Through its
worldwide sales network, M-real serves its customers who mostly comprise
publishers, printers, paper merchants, offices and well-known consumer product
companies and carton printers. 
Headquartered in Finland, M-real Corporation is listed on the OMX Helsinki
Stock Exchange. The sales of the in 2006 were EUR 5.6 billion. M-real is part
of the Metsäliitto Group. With sales of EUR 8.5 billion, Metsäliitto Group is
the eighth largest forest industry group in the world. 

For further information please contact:

Juha Lounasvaara                                                       
VP, Corrugated Case Materials
M-real Consumer Packaging
Tel. +358 (0)10 469 4624, mobile +358 50 598 9569
e-mail:firstname.lastname@m-real.com 

Koen Verplancke
Technical Sales Manager
M-real Consumer Packaging
Mobile +32 475 744 904
e-mail:firstname.lastname@m-real.com