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15.6.2021Kotkamills’ ISLA® product family of plastic-free consumer boards expands to ice cream packaging
Kotkamills Press release June 15th
Kotkamills’ family of ISLA® Consumer Boards are complemented by the freshest members of the family. ISLA® Ice and ISLA® Cream broaden the use of non-plastic solutions in the food industry with the expansion to ice cream packaging.
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4.6.2021Norwich City FC and Kotkamills will plant 26 trees in honour of World Environment Day (5.6.) and Teemu Pukki’s goals scored
Press release
June 4th, 2021
As he is getting ready for the finals of the UEFA European Football Championship tournament, Teemu Pukki is being honoured with a namesake park in South Kymenlaakso, the region where he grew up. Pukki’s English FC Norwich City and the Club’s Sustainability Partner, Kotkamills Oy, will celebrate the end of the season with the Club winning the English Football League Championship title and the Premier League promotion by planting 26 hardwood trees in the landscape around the planned wilderness and natural culture park museum in Pyhtää on 4.6.2021.
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2.6.2021Significant investments in 2020-2022 to improve Kotkamills’ operations
Online news
June 2nd, 2021
Reducing carbon dioxide emissions, water protection, and using energy more efficiently are key targets of Kotkamills’ strategy. In 2020 significant investments were made to improve the mill’s energy efficiency. The aim is to complete the big project to reduce the wastewater treatment plant’s load and the mill’s carbon dioxide emissions by August 2021. Investment projects stretching also into 2022 have been launched.
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29.4.2021Kotkamills and Pyroll awarded in the Uusi puu – New Wood 2021 Competition
Online news
April 29th, 2021
Kotkamills and Pyroll together had earlier been nominated as one of the six finalists of the competition for their Sustainable food service packaging designed for Norwich City F.C. The packaging received ”Everyday Heroes” Special Recognition Award and took also the second place in the public vote.
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Consumer Boards
Easily recyclable, versatile board for the convenience of the food service industry.
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Folding Boxboard offers quality that stands out, is easy to recycle while stiff and protective in transport.
Read more Our Consumer Boards offering is built on our own innovations and provides sustainable, easily recyclable solutions for a variety of uses with a focus on convenience packaging.
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Easily recyclable, versatile board for the convenience of the food service industry.
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Folding Boxboard offers quality that stands out, is easy to recycle while stiff and protective in transport.
Read moreOur Consumer Boards offering is built on our own innovations and provides sustainable, easily recyclable solutions for a variety of uses with a focus on convenience packaging.
Absorbex kraft paper
Global leader in saturating base kraft papers, the core raw material for high pressure laminates.
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Global leader in saturating base kraft papers, the core raw material for high pressure laminates.
Sawmill products
Using the highest quality renewable raw material from certified forests for demanding uses including our own businesses.
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Using the highest quality renewable raw material from certified forests for demanding uses including our own businesses.
Our unique integrated mill
Accelerating circularity together
Kotkamills is made of three separate but united business lines working together as a forerunner of the circular economy. Our integrated mill uses wood within the system efficiently at the various stages of the production chain. Connecting with other companies lets us accelerate circularity and spread the scope of our positive impact.
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Articles
Business Focus article on Kotkamills: Changing the game to advance circularity
Business Focus has interviewed our CEO Markku Hämäläinen about the circularity of our integrate.
“At Kotkamills, we efficiently use raw wood material in the various stages of the production chain. Paper and board production utilises the sawdust and woodchips created when sawing spruce timber into planks, refining sawmill by-products into raw materials that are suitable for our other production processes,” says CEO Markku Hämäläinen.
Read moreNorwich says no to plastics
Norwich City F.C. is switching to using only cups and food packaging made from plastic-free barrier board at the club’s football stadium Carrow Road.
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Kotkamills - The Future Generations
Innovation story by Markku Hämäläinen
Sustainability through innovation
Norwich City FC's Official Sustainable Partner
Kotkamills' fully recyclable consumer boards
Kotkamills Circularity Loop
Replacing plastics with optimal performance
Making modern convenience sustainable
