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RAPID GROWTH IN High Performance Paper WORLDWIDE
KodiakŪ and PolarŪ are high performance papers
KodiakŪ and PolarŪ are part of a category of packaging papers known as high
performance. This term refers to a category of paper in which the strength
has been increased to such an extent that the amount of paper in a
multiwall bag can be reduced by a significant amount; in most cases by
30% compared to conventional kraft papers.
Less paper in the bag translates to a more environmentally-friendly
high value package. The savings in paper can be achieved either by
reducing basis weight of each ply or more commonly reducing the number
of plies in a bag from 3 or 4 to 2. This evolution has been going on in
the multiwall bag business since paper bags were first manufactured.
Many
of the first bags had 4, 5 or 6 plies and now the standard is 3 ply in
North America and 2 ply in many other areas of the world.
Today in fact an estimated 2
million tonnes of capacity now exists for the manufacture of high
performance papers including approximately 500,000 tonnes in North
America.
Growth of High Performance Paper Capacity
From 0 in 1980 to 1.75
millions tonnes today
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