Premium folding boxboard packaging materials
for food, pharma and luxury products

Packaging materials that are a perfect fit for premium foldable packaging

Performa^TMby Stora Enso is a family premium folding carton boards. Made of fibers from sustainably managed forests – all Performa products
deliver exceptional packaging performance at a very low weight.

Let your brand take centre stage with the best paperboard packaging material which enables you to communicate to consumers while reducing your footprint. Performa carton boards work well in offset, flexo, rotogravure and digital printing, and can help minimize downtime and costs.

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Performa Nova^_TM by Stora Enso

The lightweight folding boxboard for high-performance packaging.

Presenting Performa Nova—the lightweight star of folding boxboard. Performa Nova is a one-side coated folding boxboard (GC2) engineered to carry more with less, bringing together high stiffness, reduced weight, and excellent printability for brands that refuse to compromise on quality or shelf presence.

This innovative product reduces packaging weight and replaces fossil-based materials, setting new benchmarks in folding boxboard. Enhance your brand and protect your product with Performa Nova.

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Performa Lumi beauty care packaging material

Performa Lumi™ by Stora Enso

Introducing Performa Lumi, a lightweight GC1 folding boxboard that pairs visual performance with practical efficiency.

Performa Lumi is a lightweight GC1 folding boxboard that brings premium visual quality and consistent converting performance together in one board, giving brands the shelf presence and material efficiency to compete at the highest level. It offers high whiteness, smooth surface quality, and strong print results to elevate brand presence in demanding packaging end-uses like beauty, personal care, healthcare, and food applications. Its robust yet lightweight build enables efficient material use, supporting cost savings and reliable converting performance.

Developed with Fiber Light Tec™, Performa Lumi delivers strong stiffness and yield for a wide range of end-uses. The material is fit for recycling and based on renewable, traceable materials.

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Performa Brilliance™ by Stora Enso

Brightness, smoothness and a beautiful appearance.

Performa Brilliance features the best whiteness in the folding boxboard market on both top and reverse sides and sets completely new standards for visual impression, printability and runnability. Performa Brilliance enables you to reduce packaging weights while elevating any product with a brilliant impression.

Performa Brilliance is a GC1 board with a triple-coated topside, beating competing SBS grades on print results, while its light-coated reverse is suitable for full-colour printing. It’s equally brilliant for graphical applications like book covers, greeting cards, folders, tickets and tags.

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Beauty & personal care
Graphical applications
Luxury packaging
Pharmaceuticals

Performa Light™ by Stora Enso

The lightest weight GC2 grade with high whiteness and smoothness.

Performa Light is a renewable, low-carbon material for premium folding cartons. It offers impeccable visual appearance, runnability in printing and converting processes, providing the print results required for creating a premium brand perception and customer experience.

The board’s robustness enables safe and firm packaging at a low weight. It’s suitable for direct food contact, not to mention taste and odour neutral for delicate products such as chocolate.

Performa Light is produced with patented FiberLight Tec™ including microfibrillated cellulose in the structure. This reduces the need for energy and material in the production process. Furthermore, its low weight, leads to lower CO₂ emissions in transport.

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Performa White™ by Stora Enso

Taste and odour neutral Performa White combines performance with a beautiful white appearance.

Performa White by Stora Enso is an aesthetically appealing triple-coated GC1 board with a white-coated reverse side. Its three-layer fibre structure includes chemi-thermomechanical pulp (CTMP) in the middle layer.

Performa White is a premium renewable cartonboard that is ideal for folding cartons for packaging fragrances cosmetics, and personal care products. For chocolates and confectionery, its proven taste and odour neutrality is a major benefit.

Additionally, Performa White performs well in graphical end uses and can stand up to the most demanding finishing effects.

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Performa Cream™ by Stora Enso

Rigidity, purity and good visual characteristics for a variety of end uses.

Performa Cream by Stora Enso is a food-safe GC2 board with an uncoated cream reverse side. It performs well in broad range of end uses that demand rigidity, purity and good visual characteristics.

Performa Cream by Stora Enso features a triple-pigment-coated top side, with an uncoated cream reverse side. It is odour and taste neutral and approved for food contact, making it ideal for food packaging and as a chocolate packaging material.

You can also use Performa Cream for folding cartons for pharmaceutical and healthcare products.

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