Feels Light, Less Filling

Emerging trends

Besides watching the recycling costs versus landfill costs, another important trend, according to Jaramillo, is lightweighting. “It not only produces tremendous cost savings for the consumer,” she says, “but also promotes sustainability by reducing transport volume and lessening waste production.” According to Jaramillo, all new board machines being added to the world market are no longer single ply. Multi-ply machines, she adds, are able to take advantage of different -fiber sources to achieve lighter weight and better performing board grades. To this end, M-real produces lighter boards with properties that are equal to those of heavier grades, improving yield and, states Jaramillo, “demonstrating sustainability by utilizing less raw material, less transport volume, and less waste.”