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-ofsale 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.
Market position
SCA is the second-largest player within the corrugated board market with a market share of 13%.
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 hygiene business.
Purpose-designed packaging is a prerequisite for the global economy’s extensive trade and transport of goods. The packaging market grows hand-in-hand with industrial production. In order to take advantage of growth in new regions, SCA makes significant investments in the fast-growing markets in Eastern Europe as well as in China and currently has some 20 plants in Asia and around ten production units in Eastern Europe.
Strategy
SCA supports its customers by providing complete packaging solutions from concept to consumer. The aim is to improve functionality, simplify and streamline transport, packing and handling of goods, provide cost-effective design, create attractive opportunities for product display and strengthen brand recognition.
Much of SCA’s packaging is used in retail and is on display to end-consumers. The packaging is therefore a key communicator of product content and plays a decisive role in promoting the product to end-consumers.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.
Continual improvements and efficiency enhancements in production are important strategic cornerstones within Packaging. Efficency enhancement work will continue in the future in order to ensure competitive production. Ongoing investments are also being made in the production plants in order to further consolidate positions and be able to offer customers highquality products.