Silvapak is a Swedish company involved in forestry products, largely wood chip, for its packaging products. The company claims that part of its advantage is that for every tree cut down, two are planted and each tray can be traced to a given tree. Here Joaquim Stockhaus explains how the system works.
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The Belgian ready meal producer, Le Médaillon, has chosen SilviPak for the launch
of its chilled oven dishes in the stores of the Dutch retailer Super de Boer.
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Billerud Skog has signed an agreement with Banverket. The deal covers forest growing alongside 25 km of the track in northern Sweden on which work is currently taking place. The forest is harvested and bought by Billerud Skog and the work will be completed during April 2008. The deal is one of the largest to be completed by Billerud’s newly formed wood purchasing company.
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Iggesund Paperboard is increasing prices on its folding box board, Incada, by 6 – 8 percent per tonne for deliveries as of 1 March 2008.
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Shown for the first time at Anuga, SilviPak is a new generation of natural packaging, based on pulp made from virgin wood fibres. The trays are dual ovenable and suitable for frozen and chilled ready meal products, challenging the “traditional” CPET and aluminium trays by being more natural and reducing both packaging weight and oil consumption.
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International Paper and Ilim Pulp today announced they have received Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) approval, permitting International Paper to acquire an ownership interest in Ilim Holding SA.
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Stora Enso actively works to combat illegal logging wherever the Group operates and does not accept wood that is harvested in violation of national or state laws. For Stora Enso, traceability systems verifying the origin of wood are the most important tools to combat illegal logging, and they cover all wood used by the Group. Stora Enso Wood Supply Russia also has FSC controlled wood certification in place to secure that all wood is legally harvested.
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