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 An ironworks or iron works is an industrial plant where iron is smelted and where heavy iron and steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the singular of ''ironworks'' is ''ironworks''. Ironworks succeeded bloome ...

, and the nearby forests were used to produce

charcoal Charcoal is a lightweight black carbon residue produced by strongly heating wood (or other animal and plant materials) in minimal oxygen to remove all water and volatile constituents. In the traditional version of this pyrolysis process, ca ...

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 Sawdust (or wood dust) is a by-product or waste product of woodworking operations such as sawing, sanding, milling and routing. It is composed of very small chips of wood. These operations can be performed by woodworking machinery, portable p ...

and

wood Wood is a structural tissue/material found as xylem in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulosic fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin t ...

to produce

paper Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, Textile, rags, poaceae, grasses, Feces#Other uses, herbivore dung, or other vegetable sources in water. Once the water is dra ...

. 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 Paperboard is a thick paper-based material. While there is no rigid differentiation between paper and paperboard, paperboard is generally thicker (usually over 0.30 mm, 0.012 in, or 12 Inch#Equivalents, points) than paper and has certain superior ...

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

Products

Holmen Iggesund's product range consists of two product families: *Invercote, a

solid bleached board Solid bleached board (SBB) or solid bleached sulphate (SBS) is a virgin fibre grade of paperboard. This grade is made purely from bleached chemical pulp and usually has a mineral or synthetic pigment coated top surface in one or more layers (C1 ...

(SBB, GZ) with a

grammage Grammage and basis weight, in the pulp and paper industry, are the area density of a paper product, that is, its mass per unit of area. Two ways of expressing the area density of a paper product are commonly used: * Expressed in grams (g) per s ...

of 180–400 g/m² and a thickness of 200-485 μm *Incada, folding box board (FBB, GC1 and GC2) with a

of 200–350 g/m² and a thickness of 305-640 μm *Inverform, a

(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

(SBB, GZ) for the Invercote range in Iggesund, Sweden. * two machines with an annual capacity of about 330,000

ton Ton is any of several units of measure of mass, volume or force. It has a long history and has acquired several meanings and uses. As a unit of mass, ''ton'' can mean: * the '' long ton'', which is * the ''tonne'', also called the ''metric ...

s * produced 262,000

s of

in 2008 * certified in accordance with

ISO 9001 The ISO 9000 family is a set of international standards for quality management systems. It was developed in March 1987 by International Organization for Standardization. The goal of these standards is to help organizations ensure that they meet ...

and

ISO 14001 The ISO 14000 family is a set of international standards for Natural environment, environment management systems. It was developed in March 1996 by International Organization for Standardization. The goal of these standards is to help organizations ...

. * 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 Workington is a coastal town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town is at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast, south-west of Carlisle and north-east of Whitehaven. At the 2021 census the ...

, England * one machine with an annual capacity of 200,000

s * produced 175,000

s of

in 2010 * certified in accordance with

and OHSAS 18001 * FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified Ströms Bruk produces plastic-coated and laminated

on the basis of

from Iggesund and

at a capacity of 40,000

s/year in Strömsbruk, Sweden

Locations

Head Office: * Iggesund Paperboard AB, Iggesund, Sweden Sales offices: * Iggesund Paperboard Europe,

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, Netherlands * Iggesund Paperboard Asia (HK) Limited,

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* Iggesund Paperboard Asia Pte Ltd.,

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* Iggesund Paperboard Inc. Sales Office US, Lyndhurst, United States Sales agents: * Worldwide Distribution terminals: * Iggesund, Sweden * , Ireland *

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, Poland *

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, Germany *

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, Netherlands *

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, United Kingdom *

, United Kingdom

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