Premium Board Restarts Former Stromsdal Mill in Finland
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Premium Board Finland Oy, Finland, acquired the assets of former board manufacturer Stromsdal Oy in March of this year and reports to have restarted the mill located in Juankoski in Eastern Finland. Main customers for the mill's production are brand owners in the food, cosmetics, and healthcare industry. The mill has separate paperboard and coating machines.
The board machine produces three-layer folding boxboard with mechanical pulp in the middle and chemical pulp in the top layers. The coater was modernized in 2008 and has a coating station on both sides of the web, enabling production of symmetrical paperboard. The coating stations can, in addition, also use different kinds of coating methods, such as blade-coating and rod-coating. The trim width of the offline coater is 2,450 mm. The capacity of the coater is about 100,000 metric tpy and the board machine produces some 80,000 metric tpy.
The former owner Stromsdal had developed the biodegradable Tecta dispersion-coated barrier board made at the Juankoski mill. Packaging made of virgin Tecta barrier board is used for delicate food products without the need of inner pouches or plastic layers. The water vapor and grease proof barrier coatings are water based and contain no fluorochemicals, heavy metal compounds, or waxes. Tecta is BfR-approved for use in food contact applications. The packaging can be repulped, composted, or incinerated for energy recovery without having to separate out coatings or layers manufactured from other materials, Premium Board notes.
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