M-real celebrates landmark for Simcastor papers

M-real Consumer Packaging is celebrating reaching a two million tonne landmark in the production of its Simcastor one-sided coated papers, made at the Simpele Mill in Finland. The Simcastor range is designed for use in many different flexible packaging and label applications including dry foods, drinks, dairy, confectionery and pet foods, as well as pharma and healthcare.

Mondi Coating of Zeltweg, Austria, and a long-standing customer of M-real, was delighted to be awarded the two-millionth tonne:  ‘M-real Simpele has been a reliable food packaging partner for many years now, and we really appreciate the good consistency of Simpele’s papers,’ said Auke Wessels, senior procurement manager at Mondi Coating. 

Paper production first began at the Simpele site in 1906 with brown wrapping paper. Since the 1980s Simpele has been producing the Simcastor range of one-side coated papers for flexible packaging and wet-glue labels.