Sappi has announced that it is expanding its corrugated raw material product line with topliner and fluting with a new containerboard product group Containerboard.

“My goal is to establish Sappi as an attractive, long-term and innovative partner in the corrugated card industry with the Containerboard product group,” says Bernd Gelder. “The trend toward high-quality yet environmentally friendly packaging solutions offers opportunities for growth for packaging converters and their brand owner clients. We help our customers to exploit these opportunities and make their products stand out from the rest of the market. Our products allow them to be visually distinct, save glue and weight, and make processing more efficient. They also benefit from our reliable service.”

The product group now includes corrugated paper (fluting) and topliner. The bright white Fusion topliner is the primary topliner product, while the cartonboard Algro Design and the new folding carton atelier can also be used as topliners. Weights from 90 g/m2 to 400 g/m2 are available. In Europe, Sappi now also offers the corrugating medium Ultraflute. The fluting was specially developed by Sappi in weights of 125 g/m2 to 165 g/m2 and is manufactured in South Africa for the global market.

With digital printing set to become ever more important in the years ahead, Sappi is collaborating with selected digital printing machine manufacturers like the new Containerboard product group.

In response to the high demand for Fusion topliner, Sappi has started production at a second site in Ehingen in addition to the Alfeld factory. “With a 5.60-metre-wide paper machine and modern coating equipment, Ehingen has the ideal technical capabilities for the production of Fusion,” explains Rainer Lex, Manager PQM (Process, Quality & Technology Management) at Sappi Ehingen. “Through the investments we have made, we are strengthening our special paper business and therefore also the Ehingen factory.”