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Klabin is one of Unilevers biggest board suppliers
Friday 20. March 2009 - Unilever of Brazil has become a major consumer of Folding Boxboard in Brazil, a type of cartonboard used by the hygiene and cleaning sector
Klabin has just increased its share in the supply of cartonboard for boxes of OMO soap powder and become one of the main suppliers of board to Unilever Brazil.
The board used in OMO packaging is KlaFold, belonging to the Folding Boxboard line – a type of cartonboard from Klabin generally used in the sectors of hygiene, cleaning and pharmaceutical products. KlaFold is made with a mix of short (eucalyptus) and long (pine) fibers, which give the package ideal stiffness to protect this kind of product. Klabin boards make it possible to produce visually attractive packaging, which has a strong commercial appeal, by applying graphic techniques such as embossing and varnish. Furthermore they are suitable for printing in different processes such as off-set, rotogravure and flexography.
The KlaFold used to package Unilevers product is manufactured by paper machine no. 9, PM 9, the most modern cartonboard machine in the world, in operation at the Monte Alegre Plant (PR). This plant is the biggest paper mill in Brazil and one of the ten biggest integrated pulp and paper mills worldwide.
Klabins Parana plant, where the board is manufactured, has the right to use the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) trademark, and is the first and only company in the world to have earned this joint certification for cartonboard and kraftliner from the most demanding and respected certifier in the world. The trademark attests to the fact that the company conducts its activities within the highest possible socioenvironmental standards.
Unilever also uses Klabin board in its promotional packages of other products, like Knorr soups and broths, Kibon ice creams, Becel margarines and the hygiene and personal care lines of Dove and Seda. The partnership between the companies also extends to corrugated boxes supplied by Klabin to different Unilever plants in Brazil.