Metsä Board operates Packaging Service teams on three continents – Europe, the Americas and APAC – to create lighter, more environmentally friendly and efficient packaging with customers. The company has now confirmed that the teams will be further strengthened with new design expertise following the appointments of Marko Leiviskä and Iiro Numminen.
Leiviskä, Metsä Board’s new Graphic Packaging Designer, has a strong global background working for brand owners, converters and board mills. This experience has given him a unique perspective on how packaging can strengthen a brand and this role will allow him to combine his technical skills into design and brand strategy.
Numminen, Metsä Board’s new Structural Packaging Designer, has worked as a structural designer for almost eight years and has a deep knowledge of production methods related to the conversion of paperboard as well as digital tools. His latest innovation ‘Stretching Inner Part’ was chosen as the winner of Metsä Board’s Better with Less – Design Challenge in 2018.
Ilkka Harju, Packaging Services Director, EMEA, says, “We are pleased to have extended our global Packaging Services expertise with the appointments of both Marko and Iiro. Both are highly experienced designers with extensive knowledge of the requirements for sustainable, efficient and high impact branding and packaging.”
Left to right: Ilkka Harju, Iiro Numminen and Marko Leiviskä.
