Sappi Europe, Brussels, and Felix Schoeller Group, Osnabrück/Germany, have entered into a collaboration agreement. The agreement includes the joint development of sustainable barrier paper solutions for flexible packaging applications.

The two companies will be combining their unique competencies in their respective business fields in the future in order to provide brand owners with more sustainable and more efficient packaging solutions for their products. Global manufacturer Felix Schoeller Group has been developing flexible food packaging for some years. Sappi Europe’s Packaging & Speciality Papers is a leading global manufacturer of specialty paper and carton board. The company has acquired comprehensive expertise in the packaging sector. In recent years, Sappi has evolved from a pure substrate supplier to a provider of complete paper and carton packaging solutions. Innovative products are designed to find intelligent answers to tomorrow’s questions and trends in the packaging market.