Metsä Board Oyj : Metsä Board’s professional magazine wins gold in 2021 Folio Awards
October 19, 2021 at 04:42 am EDT
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Metsä Board Corporation press release 19.10.2021
Metsä Board, a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards and part of Metsä Group, was awarded a prestigious Ozzie Award for the design of its stakeholder communications magazine spring 2020 issue. The award was given for the category 'Design, Single Magazine Issue, B2B'. The magazine is produced by Hube Helsinki Oy.Marjo Halonen, VP Communications from Metsä Board said: "In designing the Board Magazine we wanted to provide a design inspiration for circular packaging. Together with our own packaging design team and partners we created a concept of a modular packaging structure inspired by nature and used its elements as basis of the design of this issue."
For more than 25 years, the Eddie & Ozzie Awards have recognised excellence in engaging content and design across all sectors of the publishing industry.
Metsä Board is a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards. We focus on lightweight and high-quality folding boxboards, food service boards and white kraftliners. The pure fresh fibres we use in our products are a renewable resource, traceable to origin in sustainably managed northern forests. We are a forerunner in sustainability, and we aim for completely fossil free mills and raw materials by 2030.
Together with our customers we develop innovative packaging solutions to create better consumer experiences with less environmental impact. In 2020, our sales totalled EUR 1.9 billion, and we have about 2,400 employees. Metsä Board, part of Metsä Group, is listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki.
Metsä Group leads the way in the bioeconomy. We invest in growth, developing bioproducts and a fossil free future. The raw material for our products is renewable wood from sustainably managed northern forests. We focus on the growth sectors of the forest industry: wood supply and forest services, wood products, pulp, fresh fibre paperboards, and tissue and greaseproof papers.
Metsä Group's annual sales is approximately EUR 5.5 billion, and we have around 9,200 employees in 30 countries. Our international Group has its roots in the Finnish forest: our parent company is Metsäliitto Cooperative owned by 100,000 forest owners.
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Metsä Board Oyj is a leading European cardboard and paper producer. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- packaging cardboard (59%): for cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and food products and cigarettes;
- white kraftliner (24%). The group also provides office paper and special papers (papers for printing magazines, catalogues, art books, advertising materials, etc.);
- pulp (13%);
- other (4%).
At the end of 2023, the group had 8 production sites located in Finland (7) and Sweden.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Finland (4.6%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (61.8%), the United States (22.3%), America (4.3%) and Asia/Pacific (7%).
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