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Swedish packaging paper company Billerud is tackling the issue of fruit and vegetable spoilage at its new development center. The Billerud Box Lab will concentrate on creating corrugated containers to withstand damage during transport. This could lead to less spoilage; and negate the need to harvest unripe produce, a practice done to better withstand transport jolts and bumps, which also results in less nutritious and tasty products.
“We have previously performed research into stronger fiber-based transport packaging, and we are now stepping up this initiative. We are probably the first papermaker in the world with its own development center of this kind. The new laboratory will take the development of corrugated boxes to the next level,” explains Lennart Eberleh, head of Billerud’s Packaging Boards business area.
At Box Lab, Billerud’s experts will measure the long-term performance of boxes and perform tests in a climate chamber where temperatures and moisture levels can be varied to mirror conditions in the transport phase for filled packaging. Five additional compression testers will be installed in the climate chamber. This will help to increase the pace and quality of testing work and the number of customer-oriented development projects.
“We have previously performed research into stronger fiber-based transport packaging, and we are now stepping up this initiative. We are probably the first papermaker in the world with its own development center of this kind. The new laboratory will take the development of corrugated boxes to the next level,” explains Lennart Eberleh, head of Billerud’s Packaging Boards business area.
At Box Lab, Billerud’s experts will measure the long-term performance of boxes and perform tests in a climate chamber where temperatures and moisture levels can be varied to mirror conditions in the transport phase for filled packaging. Five additional compression testers will be installed in the climate chamber. This will help to increase the pace and quality of testing work and the number of customer-oriented development projects.
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