Holmen Iggesund Explained

Holmen Iggesund
Type:	Aktiebolag
Foundation:	1685 Iggesunds Bruk, 1949 Iggesund IPO
Location City:	Iggesund
Location Country:	Sweden
Industry:	Pulp and paper industry
Products:	Paperboard Invercote, Incada and Inverform
Revenue:	SEK 5 252 million (2016)
Net Income:	SEK 903 million (2016)
Num Employees:	1,406 (2016)
Owner:	Holmen Group(100%)
Homepage:	www.iggesund.com

Holmen Iggesund is a premium paperboard company, part of the Holmen Group. Holmen is one of the largest forest owners in Sweden which bases its business in the forest industry and the pulp and paper industry. Holmen's main products are paperboard for consumer packaging and graphical applications, printing paper for magazines, direct mail, books and newspapers.

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

Holmen Iggesund'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]
• Inverform, a solid bleached board (SBB, GZ) with a natural feel that has been specifically designed for ready-made meal packaging such as pressed and deep-drawn trays. It can also be used to make cutlery and more.

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, Netherlands
• Iggesund Paperboard Asia (HK) Limited, Hong Kong
• Iggesund Paperboard Asia Pte Ltd., Singapore
• Iggesund Paperboard Inc. Sales Office US, Lyndhurst, United States

Sales agents:

• Worldwide

Distribution terminals:

• Iggesund, Sweden
• , Ireland
• Kraków, Poland
• Kiel, Germany
• Rotterdam, 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

External links

• • Holmen.com Holmen's homepage

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Notes and References

1. Johannsson, Jessica: "The History of Iggesunds Bruk", 2001.
2. Web site: Invercote Family Introduction. 2009-09-17. Iggesund Website. 2008-10-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20081015035452/http://www.iggesund.com/main.aspx?ID=B3854D06-5391-4CE9-BC50-405B4D3242F4. dead.
3. Web site: Incada Family Introduction. 2009-09-17. Iggesund. Iggesund Website. 2008-10-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20081015035445/http://www.iggesund.com/main.aspx?ID=79BD8FF7-B361-4439-9420-556C1A74B126. dead.
4. Web site: HOLMEN Annual Report 2008. 2009-09-17. Holmen Website.
5. Web site: Welcome to Iggesund. 2009-09-17. Iggesund Website. 2009-01-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20090109052239/http://www.iggesund.com/main.aspx?ID=F0F974C2-4858-4463-9EBB-BE79631D26F3. dead.