Iggesund Paperboard
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| Company type | Aktiebolag |
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| Industry | Pulp and paper industry |
| Founded | 1685 Iggesunds Bruk, 1949 Iggesund IPO |
| Headquarters | , Sweden |
Key people |
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| Products | Paperboard: Invercote and Incada |
| Revenue | SEK 5 252 million (2016) |
 SEK 903 million (2016) | |
| Owner | Holmen Group(100%) |
Number of employees | 1,406 (2016) |
| Website | www.iggesund.com |
Iggesund Paperboard is a commission company of the Holmen Group and Europe's third largest manufacturer of high quality virgin fibre paperboard. Iggesund has a market share of about 20% in this sector.
History
Iggesund is an industrial village in Sweden. Isak Breant Sr, a businessman and former court commissioner to Queen Kristina, established there a mill in 1685. Iggesunds Bruk (English:mill) was originally an ironworks, and the nearby forests were used to produce charcoal for the factory. In 1771, Iggesund Bruk acquired a small nearby company that made paper, Östanå paper mill. It was one of the first to try to use sawdust and wood to produce paper. However, the technique remained experimental. The mill burnt down in 1842. In 1869, Baron Gustav Tamm became the owner of Iggesunds Bruk, and built a large sawmill. It was a major transformation for the factory, which had always been an ironworks. Iggesund’s shares were first listed on Stockholmsbörsen in 1949. Lars G. Sundblad introduced paperboard manufacturing at Iggesund, which started in 1963. The merger of MoDo, Holmen and Iggesund resulted in the delisting of Iggesund shares from Stockholmsbörsen (1988), making Iggesund part of the holding, which was renamed to Holmen AB in 2000 [1]
Products
Iggesund Paperboard's product range consists of two product families:
- Invercote, a solid bleached board (SBB, GZ) with a grammage of 180–400 g/m² and a thickness of 200-485 µm[2]
- Incada, folding box board (FBB, GC1 and GC2) with a grammage of 200–350 g/m² and a thickness of 305-640 µm[3]
Mills
Iggesunds Bruk manufactures solid bleached board (SBB, GZ) for the Invercote range in Iggesund, Sweden.
- two machines with an annual capacity of about 330,000 tons
- produced 262,000 tons of paperboard in 2008
- certified in accordance with ISO 14001 and ISO 9001.
- FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified
- PEFC (Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification ) certified
Workington manufactures folding box board (FBB, GC1, GC2) for the Incada range in Workington, England
- one machine with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons
- produced 175,000 tons of paperboard in 2010
- certified in accordance with ISO 14001 and ISO 9001 also ISO 18,001
- FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified
Ströms Bruk produces plastic-coated and laminated paperboard on the basis of paperboard from Iggesund and Workington at a capacity of 40,000 tons/year in Strömsbruk, Sweden [4]
Locations
Head Office:
Iggesund Paperboard AB, Iggesund, Sweden
Sales Offices:
Iggesund Paperboard Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Iggesund Paperboard Asia (HK) Limited, Hong Kong
Iggesund Paperboard Asia Pte Ltd., Singapore
Iggesund Paperboard Inc. Sales Office US, Lyndhurst, NJ, United States
Sales Agents:
- Worldwide
Distribution Terminals:
- Iggesund, Sweden
Jenkins[citation needed], Ireland
Krakow, Poland
Lübeck, Germany- Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tilbury, United Kingdom- Workington, United Kingdom[5]
See also
- TAPPI.org Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry
- FSC.org Forest Stewardship Council
- PEFC.se Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification
References
- ^ Johannsson, Jessica: "The History of Iggesunds Bruk", 2001.
- ^ Iggesund. "Invercote Family Introduction". Iggesund Website. Retrieved 2009-09-17.
- ^ Iggesund. "Incada Family Introduction". Iggesund Website. Retrieved 2009-09-17.
- ^ Holmen. "HOLMEN Annual Report 2008". Holmen Website. Retrieved 2009-09-17.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Welcome to Iggesund". Iggesund Website. Retrieved 2009-09-17.
External links
- Iggesund.com Iggesund's homepage
- Holmen.com Holmen's homepage