Packaging News
The speciality paper and cartonboard supplier co-operates with International Paper for its GC2 lightweight coated board and lGC1 coated paperboard product.
The company said sales have reached a new high during the last quarter, underlining the market’s positive response to the respective products.
A further factor which is also said to have proved beneficial to Chapelton’s customers has been International Paper’s quick service, ‘Kwidzyn X-Press’, which is provided by the Kwidzyn mill in Poland where both grades are manufactured.
The ‘Kwidzyn X-Press’ service allows for small order sizes from one tonne upwards to be sheeted within 4 days to bespoke sizes, thus corresponding to the small and fast orders from the market.
Commenting on the sales performance of both Alaska Plus and Arktika in the UK, Chapelton business development director, Neil Skelton, said: “Chapelton are delighted that sales have reached extremely good levels for both products, which has been particularly significant in the last quarter.”
“The high level of service provided by the mill has helped, and the addition of the ‘Kwidzyn X-Press’ service is proving to be extremely popular with customers, and is a great benefit to enable a fast turnaround on orders and deliveries.”
Chapelton were confirmed as a distributor for Alaska Plus, last year, following International Paper’s completion of its $60m modernisation project at the Kwidzyn mill, where the Alaska Plus product is produced.
The partnership between Chapelton and International Paper was put in place to help forge and develop the new Alaska Plus product into the UK market, with the aim of developing sales of the product to the pharmaceutical, confectionery and dry food packaging sectors.
Launched in July last year, Alaska Plus is a multiply virgin fibre coated board, with a double coating on the top side and an uncoated manila back-side. It is the lightweight version of International Paper’s Alaska GC2 coated board product. Alaska Plus is 6-8% lighter weight than Alaska, whilst all the other outstanding quality aspects of Alaska remain, such as production efficiency, runnability and printability. Alaska Plus is available in the basis weights of 190, 205, 220, 235, 255, 270, 280, 305 and 330g/m².
