New upgrades to Iggesund Paperboard’s Incada folding box board will result in the range being whiter and lighter, with a number of improved properties affecting printability.
According to the forestry products company, its premium Incada Exel line, a more specialised packaging board, will also have improved stiffness with a gain of up to 10-15 % for grammages over 300 g/m².
“This enables our customers to reduce their packaging weights while keeping the same protection for the contents,” explains Robin Lewis, Iggesund Paperboard product manager for Incada.
The improved stiffness has also led to a revision of Incada Exel’s grammage range to better suit the demands of the current customer base.
Other improvements have been made to the odour and taste properties so that Incada now comes in under the Robinson test’s detection limit of 0.6, the company says.
The whiteness improvement amounts to 7.5 units on the CIE scale and most of it lies in the L value, which is critical for colour reproduction.
Runnability is also improved so that Incada “can function even better” in customers’ processes. Incada is manufactured at Iggesund Paperboard’s mill in Workington, in the north of England, which this spring changed its energy source from fossil natural gas to biomass, burned in a new combined heat and power plant.
“Overnight the mill eliminated its fossil carbon emissions from more than 190,000 tonnes a year to zero,” the company says.
The reduction is said to be the equivalent of the annual emissions from more than 65,000 cars. The new Incada can be ordered this autumn with deliveries beginning in November.
