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Stories segment: Fiber-based materials

Reetta Strengell.

Chemistry – the unsung hero of food packaging

Refrigerators full of leaking cartons, hands greasy from fast-food packages – welcome to a world without chemistry. Though invisible to the naked eye, chemistry plays a big role in our everyday lives and is a key enabler in the move toward renewable food packaging alternatives.
Antti Matula.

A closer look at food packaging

Recycling and regulation emerge as some of the keywords of our time. These topics go hand-in-hand with great global challenges we need to solve. Here, Kemira has valuable expertise to offer.
Harri Eronen and Sami Puttonen.

Biobased food packaging - a union of fibers and chemistry

Sami Puttonen, Senior Manager in Sizing & Surface Business Development, sees the bigger picture when it comes to food packaging. After 11 years working at Kemira he believes that the solutions to the global issues of food waste and sustainable packaging could come from many surprising directions.
Karoliina Markkula.

The “Doctor” for paper machines

In extreme cases, microbes can completely overrun paper and board machines. Luckily that doesn’t happen when Karoliina Markkula, Biocide Business Development Manager at Kemira, and her team are on the job to prevent it.
A person reaching to a box in the bag.

Building a better box

Search. Browse. Click. Buy. With every tap on a webshop you change the way boxes are built. Shopping didn’t used to be like this.
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