Swedish wooden planned to replace the plastic – New Technology

Reduced demand for paper makes the woods looking for ways to do some good. One solution is increasingly sophisticated shaped packages.

There has invested a great deal of research in recent years to refine the Swedish forest products to be more than pulp, paper and sawn timber.

One application is in packaging, where it can become a sustainable replacement for fossil-based plastics such as Pet.

– Swedish paper is as familiar in the world. Now we see how research on our strong, long paper fibers produced results, says Björn Florman the material library.

BillerudKorsnäs has launched material Fibre Form including packaging for food. Bjorn Florman sees several advantages to this, besides the purely environmental.

– It can be molded into machines that usually processes the plastic and it is possible to shape it in different ways, such as dubbelkröka it.