Setting new standards for the future of packaging

Setting new standards for the future of packaging

Where the future of cartonboard takes shape

We've ramped up new capacity for renewable packaging in the north. Our new consumer board production line in Oulu is up and running, enabling more sustainable choices for our customers in food, beverage and personal care packaging. Join us, and let’s set new standards for the future of packaging.

This film brings the Oulu story to life — where human craftsmanship and industrial precision come together. From a single idea to full‑scale production, discover how renewable materials and performance are delivered in practice, setting new standards for the future of packaging.

Folding carton boards from Oulu are tailor-made for food and beverage multipacks

Food packaging

Premium-feel folding boxboards (FBB)

A premium folding carton that is beautiful, light weight and made for food end-uses.

Renewable, recyclable, low carbon packaging materials that supports both impeccable brand visuality and exceptional packaging performance at a low weight. Tailor-made for a range of food packaging applications, it offers you a winning combination of premium brand experience and fact-based sustainability. At the same time, light but strong build ensures high material efficiency throughout the value chain.

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Pasta box packaging

Coated kraft back (CKB)

A strong, light and trouble-free board, tailor-made for food end-uses and beverage multipacks.

The exceptional stiffness and strength properties of CKB mean you can wave goodbye to dented boxes, waste, taste, odour, or purity concerns— and say hello to renewability, recyclability and the strongest packaging at a low weight. With light-brown reverse side you can create a natural look for packaging that supports sustainable branding.

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Packaging materials crafted for exceptional premium foldable packaging

Performa Nova pasta box

Performa Nova™ by Stora Enso

Performa Nova is a lightweight folding boxboard designed for high-performance packaging.

Combining high stiffness, low weight, and excellent printability, it’s ideal for food, confectionery, and personal care applications, meeting both industry standards and consumer expectations.
This innovative board reduces packaging weight and replaces fossil-based materials, setting new standards in sustainability. Choose Performa Nova to elevate your brand and safeguard your products.

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Performa Lumi beauty care packaging material

Performa Lumi™ by Stora Enso

Introducing Performa Lumi, a lightweight GC1 folding boxboard that combines striking visual quality with practical efficiency.

With high whiteness, a smooth surface, and excellent printability, it elevates brand presence across beauty, personal care, healthcare, and food packaging. Its robust yet light build ensures efficient material use and cost-effective converting. Engineered with Fiber Light Tec™, Performa Lumi offers strong stiffness and yield, and is fully recyclable, made from renewable, traceable materials.

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We help you respond to renewable packaging trends 

Wood chip

Replace plastics with high-quality renewable materials

Boards from Oulu are made to replace fossil-based plastics in food and personal care packaging. They can significantly lower customers’ CO2 footprint.
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recycling

Ensure recyclable packaging

Our boards are all technically recyclable and can help you drive circularity and answer the regulatory push for recyclable materials.
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Paperboard packaging

Meet consumer demand for sustainable food and personal care brand

78% consumers place high importance on brands continuously improving their sustainability performance. We help you meet the demand for sustainable packaging.
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Working at the mill

Enable sustainability throughout the value chain

Our strict sustainability standards ensure a documented value chain for your packaging from raw material sourcing to package design.
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Our new production line in Oulu, Northern Finland, delivers sustainable value end-to-end

Sustainability benefits of carton board packaging materials produced in Oulu

Renewable

All boards from Oulu are made from renewable wood fiber sourced from sustainably managed forests.

Replace plastics

Boards are designed to replace plastics in food and personal care packaging.

Recyclable

Boards are technically recyclable and support circularity.

Towards low carbon

Boards help reduce the CO2 footprint of packaging.

Sustainable supply chain to Europe and North America

Stories on shaping the future

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