Bold action to improve service

“Having a capacity utilisation rate of almost 95 per cent makes you very sensitive to fluctuations in demand, especially when that demand increases,” explains Arvid Sundblad, Vice President Sales and Marketing for Iggesund. “In the past we’ve had a number of such experiences and we don’t want either ourselves or our customers to go through that again.”

A logistics team has been working for a couple of years to gradually improve the situation. Just over six months ago Iggesund launched the greatly modernised support system that forms the foundation for the improved delivery service.

“The change of systems was so radical that it was about the same as doing a heart-lung transplant plus a full body blood transfusion in a human being,” Sundblad adds. “This reorganisation has created the conditions for us to start moving towards constant delivery times but that will take time.”

Iggesund’s delivery service solution ranges from overnight service from dedicated customer stocks to regular deliveries from the mill, with several more options in between. Further development will occur over the next 12 months.

Iggesund’s service offering also encompasses everything linked to the products Invercote and Incada, from technical support in local markets to the paperboard expertise the company offers with its range of reference materials.

“We don’t just want customers to buy our paperboard,” Sundblad says. “It’s important to us that they also get the most out of it. All our documentation and our teams of locally based technicians with their experience of projects and processes similar to our customers’ exist to make sure that happens.

“We’ve offered some of this support for a long time but we haven’t made it clear enough to the majority of our customers that this service is available.”

Other features of the service offering, which is now being launched under the name “Care by Iggesund”, are the fast, easy ordering of samples and inspirational materials, the provision of product safety information and certificates, and access to the analytical services of Iggesund’s accredited Laboratory for Chemical and Sensory Analyses. Iggesund’s extensive environmental documentation is also part of the service, not least as a guarantee that customers will have no unpleasant surprises about the origin of their forest raw material.

Caption: “Our service exists so that customers can get the most out of Invercote and Incada,” emphasises Arvid Sundblad, Vice President Sales and Marketing for Iggesund. © Iggesund

Iggesund

Iggesund Paperboard is part of the Swedish forest industry group Holmen, one of the world’s 100 most sustainable companies listed on the United Nations Global Compact Index. Iggesund’s turnover is just over €500 million and its flagship product Invercote is sold in more than 100 countries. The company has two brand families, Invercote and Incada, both positioned at the high end of their respective segments. Since 2010 Iggesund has invested more than €380 million to increase its energy efficiency and reduce the fossil emissions from its production.

Iggesund and the Holmen Group report all their fossil carbon emissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project. The environmental data form an integral part of an annual report that complies with the Global Reporting Initiative’s highest level of sustainability reporting. Iggesund was founded as an iron mill in 1685, but has been making paperboard for more than 50 years. The two mills, in northern Sweden and northern England employ 1500 people.

Further information:

Staffan Sjöberg
Public Relations Manager
staffan.sjoberg@iggesund.com

Iggesund Paperboard
SE-825 80 Sweden
Tel: +4665028256
Mobile: +46703064800
www.iggesund.com