Pulps for folding box board

Botnia’s pulps for folding box board are suitable for manufacture of high quality folding box boards. Botnia’s range of folding box board pulps includes long-fibre softwood pulps and short-fibre hardwood pulps, both of which are needed in folding box board manufacture.

Folding box boards are used in the manufacturing of various packages. Packages with demanding end use require clean, strong board with even brightness and good printing properties.

The key characteristics required in pulp are:

  • high level of brightness
  • cleanness
  • rapidly forming tensile strength in refining
  • good stability of brightness
  • good optical properties (short-fibre pulp)