As chocolate producers and brand owners look to lower their environmental impact, Stora Enso created plastic-free, lightweight board designed for premium packaging. It is designed to help customers decrease their carbon footprint and meet the consumer needs hen looking for eco-friendly products.

Öystein Aksnes, VP, Liquid Packaging and Carton Board, says: “Consumers increasingly choose brands which enable them to lead eco-friendly lives. By offering a low carbon product, we can help confectionery brands meet this demand”.

Performa Light by Stora Enso is a renewable and recyclable board for premium folding cartons typically used in packaging of chocolate and confectionery. The board allows for 70 % reduction of CO2 emissions in production compared to competition due to fossil-free energy production and a patented fibre treatment technology, FiberLight Tec by Stora Enso, to save energy and raw material.

Performa Light has a low weight and an improved strength due to micro fibrillated cellulose, so called MFC, in the structure. This results in less waste and lower CO2 emissions in transport. On top of the strong environmental performance, customers will benefit from Performa Light’s high print quality due to its strong qualities for reproduction of colours on the printing surface.

Öystein Aksnes states: “Packaging made of Performa Light creates a premium brand perception of the product inside, which makes it suitable for high-end confectionery products. Moreover, the board is suitable for direct food contact and is taste and odour neutral, making it particularly adapted to fine foods, such as chocolate”.