Metsä Board to increase white-top kraftliner and fully bleached linerboard prices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
Metsä Board Corporation Release 7 March 2014
Metsä Board is raising the prices of all white-top kraftliner and fully bleached linerboard grades by €50 per ton in Europe, the Middle East and Africa from 7 April 2014.
For further information, please contact Metsä Board:
Risto Auero, Vice President, Linerboard Sales
Mobile +358 (0)50 598 8828
E-mail: risto.auero(at)metsagroup.com
www.metsaboard.com
Metsä Board is Europe’s leading producer of fresh forest fibre cartonboards, the world’s leading manufacturer of coated white-top kraftliners, and a major paper supplier. The company’s sales network serves brand owners, carton printers, corrugated packaging manufacturers, printers, merchants and office suppliers.
Metsä Board supports its customers’ businesses by providing high-performance paperboards and quality papers for consumer and retail packaging, graphics and office end-uses. Together with its customers and partners, Metsä Board develops products and services for demanding end uses. The company’s paperboard is mainly used for the packaging of beautycare and healthcare products, foods, cigarettes, and consumer durables as well as graphics. Paper is mainly used for office papers as well as wallcoverings and other speciality end uses.
Metsä Board’s business areas are Cartonboard, and Linerboard and Paper.
Metsä Board is headquartered in Finland. In 2013, the company’s sales totalled EUR 2.0 billion, and it has approximately 3,100 employees. Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.
www.metsagroup.com
Metsä Group is a responsible forest industry group whose products’ main raw material is renewable and sustainably grown northern wood. Metsä Group focuses on tissue and cooking papers, consumer packaging paperboards, pulp, wood products, and wood supply and forest services. Its high-quality products combine renewable raw materials, customer-orientation, sustainable development and innovation. Metsä Group’s sales totalled EUR 4.9 billion in 2013, and it employs approximately 11,000 people. The Group operates in some 30 countries. Metsäliitto Cooperative is the parent company of Metsä Group and is owned by approximately 123,000 Finnish forest owners.