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24.6.2021Kotkamills Customer Magazine Summer 2021
Online news June 24th
In this edition there are articles about Norwich City FC and Kotkamills and the Recognition Award “Everyday Heroes” in the New Wood 2021 Competition for Sustainable food service packaging, Sensory evaluation and new sensory evaluation laboratory at Kotkamills, our sawmill investment programme, our Technical Customer Service Team and many more articles about our customers, their customers and other stakeholders.
Read Kotkamills Customer Magazine Summer 2021 on Newsroom.
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22.6.2021Kouvola- and Kotka-themed plastic-free paper cups now available in retail stores
Press Release June 22nd
“Where can I buy these for home use? I’d like to bring some cup-based Kotka expertise as a gift when visiting friends.” These sentences have been frequently heard ever since the cups made from Kotkamills’ plastic-free cupstock were first manufactured. Plastic-free coffee cupstock was launched in the markets in early summer 2018; the coffee cups – and today also mugs – have been used e.g. in eateries and at public events, but cups made from the ISLA® barrier board have rarely been available in retail stores.
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17.6.2021Kotkamills Sustainability Report 2020: We accelerate change for sustainable living
Online news June 17th
Sustainability is an integral part of Kotkamills’ operations and is at the core of our strategy. Read more about our sustainable business on our Sustainability Report 2020.
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15.6.2021Kotkamills’ ISLA® product family of plastic-free consumer boards expands to ice cream packaging
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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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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VIDEOS
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
