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Smurfit Kappa
Saint Petersburg
Vsevolozhsk, Vsevolozhsky district
Kommunar, Gatchinsky district
About the company
Smurfit Kappa Group is one of the leading suppliers of pa-
per packaging in the world, and is a part of the FTSE 100 list,
with sales volume of 8.6 billion euro (in 2017). About 46,000
people are employed in 370 enterprises of the Group
scattered over 22 European countries and 13 countries in
the American continent. In Russia Smurfit Kappa is repre-
sented by four factories with the total number of employees
amounting to 800 people.
Smurfit Kappa Saint Petersburg has been successfully
working on the corrugated cardboard and food packaging
bag market for over 20 years. The company actively supplies
products to other Russian regions and exports to the near
abroad. Amongst the consumers are the largest Russian
Production of corrugated and international companies: Mondelēz, Unilever, Jacobs,
cardboard packaging Nestle, Heineken, Orimi, IKEA, Reckitt Benckiser, Viciunai,
Danone, Multon, and others.
Year of establishment: 1996
Volume of production: Export markets: Northwestern federal district, Finland,
329 million m of corrugated Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland.
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cardboard, 21 million Bag-in-Box
bags per year
Volume of investments:
440 million rubles
About the products
The main product of Smurfit Kappa is corru-
gated cardboard packaging, used for both
transportation and display of goods in shops.
Paper-based packaging is one of the most eco-
logically sustainable ways of packaging, as it is
made of renewable, biodegradable material,
which is important if the packaging ends up in
a landfill.
In Vsevolozhsk the company produces Bag-
in-Box packaging bags which also reduce the In autumn of 2018 the company launched a large-scale
amount of plastic used by the manufacturers initiative “Better Planet packaging” which aims to develop
of soft drinks, cleaning supplies and hygiene innovative and cost-effective alternatives to plastic, which
items, effectively substituting for traditional pollutes the World Ocean.
plastic packaging.
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