Chocolate Multipacks Combine M-real's Carta Solida With Corrugated Board

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Smurfit Kappa Lithopac, Sweden, has developed a solution to package giant multipacks of Marabou Chocolate bars, designed to be used as prizes in theme parks. These packs posed a challenge if they are to reproduce the look of standard size wrappers. A folding boxboard on its own would not be strong enough to protect all twenty 100g bars in the pack, and a corrugated liner would not possess all of the required printing qualities.

Smurfit Kappa's solution was to litho-laminate M-real's Carta Solida folding boxboard onto a corrugated board after offset printing. Carta Solida has the high whiteness and gloss to reproduce brand colors and images accurately, and combines high bulk with a light weight. It is available in sheets, allowing for flexibility in print runs, and its creasability makes it ideal for the multipack. Carta Solida is a fully coated bleached paperboard with a white back, one of M-real's range of virgin-fiber based cartonboards. It is available in 185-320 gsm.