Boise Paper to invest in pressure-sensitive materials

The strategic investment in Wallula’s #3 paper machine includes a headbox upgrade and a former rebuild.

These targeted enhancements will further differentiate Boise’s pressure-sensitive products by increasing formation uniformity and reducing cross direction profile variation, according to Packaging Corporation of America, with reducing product variation crucial to pressure-sensitive customers.

Expanding the capabilities of the #3 paper machine at Wallula will also address customer needs that include expanded functionality for label release liner applications, layflat release liners for graphic display applications, and coated facestocks. The upgrades will be installed in June 2014.

The investment demonstrates Packaging Corporation of America’s commitment to enhancing the capabilities of its Boise Paper business, which has been supplying the pressure-sensitive market for nearly four decades, as well as the global release liner market since a strategic investment in 2007 converted Wallula #3 into a release liner base paper machine.