Sustainable packaging materials for food end-uses

We provide food and beverage packaging material that helps our customers in replacing plastic and meeting the demand for renewable alternatives for a variety of end-uses.

Packaging materials that improve your product's circularity and environmental impact while guaranteeing the highest levels of food safety

Food safe packaging without compromise

Safeguarding consumer health is of utmost importance, especially in food applications. Our team of experts works closely with our customers to make sure that our products don't impact consumer health, odor and taste. We use only high-quality materials that meet the strictest standards for food safety and environmental sustainability.

Protection for optimal food quality

Products remain fresh and safe for consumption with our barrier-coated paperboard materials. Barrier coatings play a role in securing food safety by creating sealability, protection against possible food contamination and preventing air from entering or escaping the package.

Sustainable food packaging

By choosing our renewable food and beverage packaging materials, our customers can reduce their environmental impact, meet consumer demand for sustainable products, and contribute to a more sustainable future. These fiber-based materials offer versatile, circular solutions to meet packaging challenges - both today and in the future.

Learn more about food safety and contribution to bigger food systems

Want to understand our perspective on food safety in packaging materials?

This guidebook is perfect for brand owners, retailers and converters to explore how we maintain safety at our sites and throughout the value chain, and how we partner with our customers to ensure accountability and compliance.

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Renewable packaging multiple end-uses for food shopping

Food packaging for better food systems

Do you know how food production and consumption will change over the coming years? We need to rethink the role of food packaging throughout the food system. Reliable packaging is critical to food value chains, ensuring that consumables are fresh and safe as well as reducing food waste.

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Dry food

Do you want to communicate something extraordinary with your dry food packaging? Today there are paperboard options that are food-safe while allowing you to print, emboss and create special finishing effects for your products. On top of this, they are lightweight, yet bulky, recyclable, and made from renewable resources.

Possible applications:
Pasta, Rice, Cereals, Coffee, Dry soups, Baby foods

Read more about dry food packaging:
Performa products, Tambrite, Tamfold, CKB

Frozen & chilled food

Butter, meat, fish or veggies? Get the shelf impact your food deserves and the convenience your customers desire. Frozen and refrigerated food packaging is becoming more popular, and choosing paperboard means you make a sustainable choice in a growing market.

Possible applications:
Ready meals, processed meat, pizzas, ice cream, fish and seafood

Read more about frozen and chilled food packaging:
Cupforma, Trayforma, Performa products

Chocolate & confectionery

The packaging is the first presentation of your chocolates and confectionary – truly a part of the consumer experience. It is also what’s left when the treat is consumed. That’s why you should handle packaging as part of the experience of your brand and products.

Possible applications:
Chocolates, Sugar confectionery, Savoury snacks, Biscuits and bakery products

Read more about chocolate & confectionery packaging:
Performa products, Tambrite

Fresh food

Fresh produce, including fruits and vegetables, are typically perishable foods that must endure long-distance travel. They must withstand fluctuations in temperature, cold chain conditions, and moisture during transit to arrive in good condition. Our containerboard family comprises robust, lightweight, and durable materials that provide optimal protection, environmental performance, and brand impact.

Possible applications:
Fruits and vegetables

Read more about fresh food packaging:
AvantForte

Beverages

Stora Enso carton board is the preferred choice for every third liquid carton globally, and with good reason. Our premium liquid packaging boards offer unparalleled product protection, printing, converting, and filling performance. They are food-safe, durable, and feature an advanced multilayer construction that provides lower package weights while maintaining quality and integrity.

Possible applications:
Milk, juice

Read more about beverage packaging:
Natura, Prime

Food service

Our range of food service packaging materials offers versatility, renewability, and safety. We utilize renewable materials such as bioplastics and paperboard to design functional and sustainable packaging solutions that meet the highest safety standards while providing optimal protection and display for food service products.

Possible applications:
Meals prepared away from home,
Cups for drinks
Ice cream
Fast food packaging

Read more about food service packaging:
Cupforma, Trayforma, Paperboards with Aqua™ coating

More sustainable choices for our customers in food, beverage and personal care packaging

Shaping the future of renewable packaging

We are committed to delivering high-quality and sustainable packaging materials, which is why we are expanding our consumer board production capacity. This milestone will enable customers in the food, beverage, and personal care industries to make more sustainable choices and reducing environmental impact.

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