The Smurfit Kappa Group is Europe's leading corrugated packaging company, following the merger of 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 Limited and CVC Capital Partners and by management.
The Group has sales of approximately 7 billion euro, operations at some 400 locations and over 40,000 employees. Smurfit Kappa Group has operations in containerboard, solid board, graphic board, corrugated and solid board packaging. The Group is present in over 20 European countries, nine Latin American nations, as well as Canada, Singapore, the USA and South Africa.
In the UK the recycling 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 and Snodland, Kent.
Smurfit Kappa's facility in Piteå, Sweden, is host mill to Chemrec's BioDME production facility based on black liquor, the world's first of its kind.
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