The Smurfit Kappa Group is Europe's leading corrugated packaging company, following the merger of Jefferson Smurfit

Jefferson Smurfit

Jefferson Smurfit can refer to:* Jefferson Smurfit , Irish businessman* Jefferson Smurfit plc, former Irish paper packaging company founded by Jefferson Smurfit...

 Group and Kappa Packaging. This merger was finalized by the end of 2005. The group is owned by Madison Dearborn Partners, by Cinven

Cinven

Cinven is a British private equity firm founded in 1977 with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Hong Kong. Currently, the company has raised four funds, with the last one signing up €6.5 billion...

 Limited and CVC Capital Partners

CVC Capital Partners

CVC Capital Partners is one of the top five largest private equity firms globally with approximately US$46 billion in funds focused on management buyouts...

 and by management.

The Group has sales of approximately 7 billion euro

Euro

The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...

, operations at some 400 locations and over 40,000 employees. Smurfit Kappa Group has operations in containerboard

Containerboard

Containerboard, also referred to as CCM , is a type of paperboard specially manufactured for the production of corrugated board. The term encompasses both linerboard and corrugating medium , the two types of paper that make up corrugated board...

, solid board

Binder's board

Binder's board is a paperboard used in bookbinding for making hardcovers. These are normally acid free....

, graphic board, corrugated and solid board packaging. The Group is present in over 20 European countries, nine Latin American nations, as well as Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, the USA and South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

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In the UK the recycling

Recycling

Recycling is processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution and water pollution by reducing the need for "conventional" waste disposal, and lower greenhouse...

 division Smurfit Kappa Recycling has a network of recycling facilities which collect 500,000 tonnes of mixed used paper annually from local authorities and companies nationwide for recycling at two Group paper mills in Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

 and Snodland

Snodland

Snodland is a small town in the county of Kent, England, located on the River Medway between Rochester and Maidstone. It has a population of about 12,000 people....

, Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

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Smurfit Kappa's facility in Piteå

Piteå

Piteå is a locality and the seat of Piteå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. The town has 22,650 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 41,000 in 2008.- Geography :...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, is host mill to Chemrec's

Chemrec

Chemrec is a Stockholm, Sweden corporation that develops technology for entrained flow gasification of black liquor and certain types brown liquor for production of biofuels from the resulting syngas....

 BioDME production facility based on black liquor

Black liquor

Black liquor is the spent cooking liquor from the kraft process when digesting pulpwood into paper pulp removing lignin, hemicelluloses and other extractives from the wood to free the cellulose fibers....

, the world's first of its kind.

External links

• Smurfit Kappa Group homepage
• Smurfit Kappa Recycling UK homepage