About Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics

Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP), a business unit of Dow (NYSE: DOW), combines core strengths of R&D, worldwide reach, broad product lines and industry expertise to deliver high performing technologies for end use markets in food packaging, personal hygiene, infrastructure, consumer goods and transportation. P&SP is one of the world’s largest producers of polyethylene resins, functional polymers, and adhesives, and enabled by Pack Studios, is a leading innovator and collaborator across the value chain on sustainable application development and circular economy life-cycle design for plastics. www.dow.com/packaging

 

About Dow

Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation and leading business positions to achieve profitable growth. The Company’s ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company. Dow’s portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure and consumer care. Dow operates 109 manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 36,500 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2019. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com

 

This is Stora Enso
Part of the bioeconomy, Stora Enso is a leading global provider of renewable solutions in packaging, biomaterials, wooden construction and paper. We employ some 23 000 people, and have sales in more than 50 countries. Our shares are listed on the Helsinki (STEAV, STERV) and Stockholm (STE A, STE R) stock exchanges.

Our fiber-based materials are renewable, recyclable and fossil free. Our solutions offer low-carbon alternatives to products based on finite resources. We believe that everything that is made from fossil-based materials today can be made from a tree tomorrow.
 
PACKAGING MATERIALS
The Packaging Materials division is a global leader in the circular economy with our premium renewable and recyclable packaging materials based on both virgin and recycled fiber. Addressing the needs of today's eco-conscious consumers, we help customers replace fossil-based materials with low-carbon, renewable and recyclable alternatives for their food and drink, pharmaceutical or transport packaging. A wide selection of barrier coatings enables design optimisation for various demanding packaging end-uses.

PACKAGING SOLUTIONS
The Packaging Solutions division develops and sells premium fiber-based packaging products and services. Our high-end eco-friendly packaging products are used by leading brands across multiple market sectors, including store retail, e-commerce and industrials. The portfolio includes corrugated and other converting, design services, automation solutions, and scalable innovations such as formed fiber and biocomposites.

BIOMATERIALS
The Biomaterials division meets the growing demand for the replacement of products made from fossil-based and hazardous materials with bio-based solutions. We use all fractions of biomass, like lignin and sugars, to develop new solutions. We work to replace fossil-based materials with new applications such as carbon for energy storage, bio-based binders, and bio-based carbon fiber. The division's offering includes a wide variety of pulp grades to meet the demands of paper, board, tissue, textile and hygiene product producers as well as materials from side streams of our processes, such as tall oil and turpentine from biomass.

WOOD PRODUCTS
The Wood Products division is the largest sawn wood producer in Europe and a leading provider of sustainable wood-based solutions for the construction industry. Our growing Building Solutions business offers building concepts to support low-carbon construction and eco-friendly designs. We develop digital tools to simplify the designing of building projects with wood. We also offer applications for windows, doors and for packaging industries, and our pellets provide a sustainable heating solution.

FOREST
The Forest division creates value with sustainable forest management, competitive wood supply and innovation, which are the foundation for Stora Enso's renewable offerings. The division manages Stora Enso's forest assets in Sweden and the 41% share of Tornator, the majority of whose forest assets are located in Finland. The division is also responsible for wood sourcing for Stora Enso's Nordic, Baltic and Russian operations and B2B customers. Stora Enso is one of the biggest private forest owners in the world

PAPER
Stora Enso is the second largest paper producer in Europe, with an established customer base and a wide product portfolio for print and office use. Customers benefit from Stora Enso's broad selection of paper products made from recycled and virgin fiber, our technical expertise and our sustainability know-how as well as our mill and customer service centre network.

PRO FOOD is the product group within the Federazione Gomma Plastica, which brings together Italian companies producing plastic containers for the packaging, distribution and consumption of food and beverages.

All the companies of the group invest significant resources in order to increase the sustainability of the sites, of the production processes and of the products themselves. In particular, as regards a series of rigid containers intended to contain fresh food, the group has launched a voluntary process of certification of the product's environmental footprint, based on the international standard ISO 14040 and guaranteed by the independent body Accredia.

Tembo provides global brands with world-class technology to meet market dynamics and to achieve their goals for sustainable consumer products. As one of our subsidiaries, Tembo Paper specializes in high-speed, high accuracy paper straw machinery to end the use of plastic straws.

Highest quality biodegradable paper straws
The Tembo Paper platform produces the highest quality and most sustainable, biodegradable paper straws available, worldwide. The platform is equipped for production in high volume with high precision. The Tembo Paper spiraling technology guarantees the most cost effective and zero-failure output.

Buy large quantities of white label paper straws
To eliminate the use of plastic straws, Tembo builds its own high-quality biodegradable paper straw production sites. Companies in the food service industry and other bulk straw-consuming companies can order paper straws in their own design.

Tembo Paper also embraces the circular economy concept. We are producing white-label paper straws with minimum waste and by minimizing the use of glue and paper. Our production facilities are powered by sustainable energy, sourced for example by solar panels on the roof.

Your own paper straw production line
To speed up the production of paper straws, we are building partnerships with companies that have strong logistic systems or networks. As a partner, Tembo Paper will supply the paper straw production line to your site and offers its know-how in paper straws. Together we can provide as many biodegradable paper straws as needed to replace the use of plastic straws completely.

Contact us
Martin Grandjean
Mobile:                 + 44 7899 993595
Email:                    martin.grandjean@tembo.eu

APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging, is a federation of the four major producers of steel for packaging (ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel, thyssenkrupp Rasselstein, U.S. Steel Košice). Founded in 1986, APEAL represents today about 95% of the total European production of steel for packaging.

A permanent material that is fully and endlessly recyclable without loss of quality, steel packaging was effectively recycled at 80.5% in EU in 2017.

Strong, formable and long-lasting, steel offers numerous benefits for the safe packaging of a wide variety of products.

Metsä Board is a leading European producer of premium fresh fibre paperboards and forerunner in sustainability. We produce premium lightweight folding boxboards, food service boards and white kraftliners for consumer goods packaging as well as retail-ready and food service applications. We work together with our customers on a global scale to innovate solutions for better consumer experiences with less environmental impact. The pure fresh fibres Metsä Board uses are a renewable resource, traceable to origin in sustainably managed northern forests. We aim for completely fossil-free mills and raw materials by 2030.