When, in March 2020, we last chatted to Smurfit Kappa about its sustainability strategies, perhaps neither the interviewer nor the interviewee fully appreciated quite how profoundly the pandemic would impact on everyone’s activities – nor how long it would last.

Cascades Answers is a regular Q&A featuring the questions you’ve asked the most. Its Cascades’ answer to what people actually want to know about tissue products and dispensers.

A Q&A with WestRock Chief Sustainability Officer Brandi Colander

For Stora Enso, sustainability is not a specialist topic – it’s ingrained in everything we do. We aim to produce renewable resources, enhance biodiversity, and help combat global warming – all while maintaining forest health.

The Pandemic aside, PaperWeek Canada 2021 is taking an innovative approach and will proudly present its very first virtual edition of this event.

Finnish packaging converter Jaakkoo-Taara is an ISO-certified company with decades of experience in producing a diverse range of packaging solutions for the demanding and strictly regulated pharma industry.

As climate change efforts and environmental considerations are increasingly an integral part of any mature investment strategy, investors turn more and more to providers of alternative energies.

Stora Enso has defined three focus areas for growth in its updated strategy: Packaging Materials and Packaging Solutions, Building Solutions within the Wood Products division, and Biomaterials innovations.

As the CEO of FPInnovations, Stéphane Renou knows what he’s got. At the helm of a world-leading R&D organization specializing in solutions to support Canada’s forest sector, Renou is cognizant of the scientific and technical powerhouse he commands, yet remains mindful and grateful for the engine that makes the entire FPInnovations machine work: its people.

Stora Enso develops and produces solutions based on wood and biomass for a range of industries and applications worldwide, leading in the bioeconomy and supporting the development of renewable eco-friendly products. 

UPM Timber has pulled through strikes and Covid-19 with minimal damage. We spoke to Mikko Hyvärinen, Sales and Supply Chain director, to learn how this was accomplished and hear about the direction the sawn timber industry is heading.

This edition of Sustana Fiber’s ‘Conversations with Green Champions’ is with Barak Bright, Director of Product Development at Clearwater Paper, which is introducing new paperboard brands with recycled content in an industry dominated by non-recycled products.

My first role with Cascades was as a chemist in 2008. In my early years, I worked with different teams to research and identify ways to optimize the properties of Cascades’ products.

Valmet is a leading supplier of technology, equipment and services to the global bioproducts industry. Its customers include pulp, paper and tissue manufactures, as well as producers of other high-end products derived from using woodas a  raw material.

Learn how one AF&PA member is innovating on water use in the paper and wood products industry.

5 questions to Guillaume Delacroix, our Senior Vice President of the Performance Minerals EMEA Business Area and a member of Imerys Executive Committee.

Sustainable packaging options have never been in greater demand as growers, retailers and consumers all increasingly look for fresh thinking on environmentally friendly solutions.

Metsä Spring Ltd., part of Metsä Group, is an innovation company with the ambition to catalyse the creation of new businesses related to forest-based bioeconomy and circular economy.  

Robin Ferm is, during eight weeks, working as manager of SCA Maintenance together with the regular head. An exciting and different assignment as a summer job.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken and continues to challenge the very foundation of the world economy. However, through the fear, the death and the uncertainty, there has also been light, hope and resilience.

Some companies queue at the door of ingenuity. Others charge through, pushing the innovation gate open to lead the way for a more sustainable future both nationally and globally.