Tetra Pak opens new factory in Finland
Feb 6 2012 Tetra Pak has inaugurated its new packaging material factory in Finland. The factory, located in Imatra, with a planned capacity of 500 million packages per year, will expand Tetra Pak’s gable top capacity for Northern Europe.
The laminated paper board used to produce the packaging material comes from Stora Enso's Imatra paper mills only six kilometers from the location of the new factory, and the short distance helps reduce the CO2 emissions for the transportation of paperboard to the factory.The production facilities are expected to be ISO 14001 certified in the beginning of 2013, and plans are underway to implement World Class Manufacturing (WCM) practices at the plant.Stora Enso Imatra in southeast Finland is one of four cartonboard mills in the Nordic region supplying paperboard to Tetra Pak. The other mills are Stora Enso Skoghall and Korsnäs' mills in Gävle and Frövi, all in Sweden.