SCA is continuing its progress towards becoming a full-service packaging supplier. This means that SCA operates throughout the entire packaging chain including design, packaging manufacture and improving customer logistics.
SCA is one of Europe’s leading suppliers of packaging for a number of different applications. These include consumer and point-of-sale packaging, shelf-ready packaging, customized protective packaging, and transport packaging made from corrugated board as well as a full service concept aimed at manufacturers, distributors and retailers.
The customer base includes well-known, international companies such as Nestlé, Arla Foods, Hewlett Packard, Nokia, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, and Husqvarna as well as packaging solutions for SCA’s own hygiene business.
"Packaging is a key part of market communication."
SCA has solid knowledge of consumers and the retail trade, which is the primary market channel for many of SCA’s packaging customers. With ten Design Centres in Europe and Asia, SCA has a unique strategic expertise and competitiveness that was strengthened in 2006 with the inauguration of an Innovation Centre in Brussels, Belgium. New packaging solutions are developed in SCA’s Design Centres in close cooperation with customers. New technologies, material solutions and design tools are tested at the centres.
SCA focuses on three value offerings for its customers’ entire packaging chain, where cooperation also includes the customer’s marketing and sales organization.
- Packaging is a key part of market communication and must have an attractive design and high-quality printing.
- Cost-effective transport requires optimization of packaging space based on logistic principles with an optimal strength-to-weight ratio.
- During transport the packaging must provide effective protection against shocks, vibrations and temperature changes.
The strategic priorities within packaging are:
- To increase the proportion of complete packaging solutions in close cooperation with customers.
- To lead development in the packaging market with innovations and product development.
- To expand in the fast-growing markets in Eastern Europe as well as in China.
- To continue to push for continuous productivity improvements.
SCA's packaging operations are conducted within two business groups:
- Packaging Europe
- Asia Pacific