Overview
Stora Enso Oyj is a global forest-products and renewable-materials company. Its business includes packaging, biomaterials, paper and wood products, including wooden construction solutions; it presents renewable materials as alternatives to fossil-based and other non-renewable materials.[1][2] The company states its purpose is to replace non-renewable materials with renewable products.[3] It operates internationally, with a presence across Europe, Asia and the Americas.[4]
For the year ended 31 December 2025, Stora Enso reported sales of EUR 9.326 billion and average personnel of 18,877.[5][6] The company describes its heritage as spanning more than 700 years.[7] [5][6][1][2][3][4][7]
Products & services
Stora Enso’s packaging products include liquid-packaging and foodservice board, fresh cartonboard, containerboard, newsprint and magazine paper, and book paper. Named folding-cartonboard products include Performa grades (Performa Nova, Lumi and Brilliance) and Tambrite, a fully coated GC2 folding boxboard with a cream reverse; its liquid-board range includes Natura and Natura Life, an unbleached liquid-packaging board.[8][9][10][11][12] Its packaging solutions include boxes and trays, corrugated converting, custom e-commerce shipping boxes and paper mailers. Related services include packaging design, prototyping and testing, automation, and cost optimisation.[8][9][13][14]
The company’s biomaterials include pulp, lignin, bio-based binders, foams and chemicals, formed-fibre products, and hard-carbon battery material. Named products include Lineo® kraft lignin, NeoLigno® lignin-based binder and Lignode® hard-carbon battery anode material.[8][9][15][16][17] Wood and construction products include sawn and planed wood, pellets, cross-laminated timber (CLT), laminated veneer lumber (LVL), and the Sylva™ prefabricated construction kit, which includes components such as walls, floors, roofs, stairs, beams and columns. CLT is made from layers of solid wood bonded at alternating right angles; LVL is made from bonded, strength-graded veneers. Wood-related services include forest procurement and management, biodiversity and forest-management services for private owners.[8][9][18][19][20]
For containerboard, the 2025 annual report lists annual capacity of 1.84 million tonnes across SC fluting, testliner, wrapping and recycled-fibre fluting, sack paper, kraftliner and white-top kraftliner.[21][22] The 2025 report’s external sales by then-current reportable segments were €4,255 million for Packaging Materials, €1,016 million for Packaging Solutions, €1,151 million for Biomaterials, €1,611 million for Wood Products, €1,254 million for Forest and €39 million for Other, out of €9,326 million total—approximately 45.6%, 10.9%, 12.3%, 17.3%, 13.4% and 0.4%, respectively. These are calculated segment shares, not individual-product percentages. From 1 January 2026, Wood Products ceased to be a separate reportable segment, with northern European wood-products operations allocated across other segments.[23][24] [8][9][21][22][23][24][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
Geographic presence
Stora Enso’s main market is Europe. Its geographic footprint spans Europe and Asia, with major mill locations including Oulu and Imatra in Finland, Skoghall in Sweden, Ostrołęka in Poland, and Beihai in China. The company’s head office is in Helsinki, Finland, with additional head-office functions in Stockholm, Sweden.[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]
At year-end 2025, the company reported 18,515 full-time employees; Finland, Sweden, China and Poland were its four countries with the most employees, although country-level headcounts were not provided. The 2025 report does not disclose consolidated Group revenue by customer geography. Separately, parent-company net sales were €2,870 million: Finland €1,234 million (43.0%), Other Europe €932 million (32.5%), the Americas €239 million (8.3%), Asia and Oceania €374 million (13.0%), and Africa €91 million (3.2%). These figures describe the parent company, not the Group’s geographic revenue mix.[33][34][25] [25][31][32][26][27][28][29][30][33][34][34][34][34][34][34][26][27][28][29][30]
Business segments
Stora Enso’s current reportable segments are Consumer Packaging, Integrated Packaging, Biomaterials and Other. In the 2025 comparative sales reported under the structure effective from 1 January 2026, their shares of total reported segment sales were approximately 36%, 23%, 15% and 25%, respectively. These percentages use segment sales before inter-segment eliminations, so they indicate segment mix rather than each segment’s share of consolidated external sales.[35]
Consumer Packaging focuses on cartonboard and foodservice and liquid-board products for uses including food, beverages and cosmetics. Integrated Packaging combines containerboard and packaging solutions, supplying materials for corrugated packaging used across markets such as food, e-commerce, consumer goods and industry. Biomaterials comprises pulp and biochemicals serving packaging, hygiene, medical-care and industrial customers.[36][37][38]
Other includes Wood & Energy, Group functions, Swedish forest assets, Growth and Central European Wood Products operations. From 1 January 2026, Forest and Wood Products ceased to be a separate reportable segment: Northern European Wood Products activities were integrated across Consumer Packaging, Integrated Packaging and Biomaterials, while Central European Wood Products and specified forest and wood-supply activities are reported in Other.[39][40][41][42][43][24][44] [35][35][35][35][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][24][44]
Company history
Stora Enso’s history combines two older industrial lineages. Stora’s roots are traced to a 1288 record relating to the Falun copper mine, while its predecessor Stora Kopparbergs Bergslag was formally established in 1862. Enso’s lineage began with a steam-powered sawmill in Kotka in 1872; Gutzeit acquired Enso Träsliperi in 1912.[7]
Enso-Gutzeit merged with Veitsiluoto and became Enso Oy in 1996. In 1998, Enso Oyj and Swedish Stora merged to form Stora Enso Oyj.[7] The company expanded internationally in the following years, acquiring US paper producer Consolidated Papers in 2000 and a majority stake in Polish packaging producer Intercell in 2004.[45][46]
In the 2010s, Stora Enso emphasized a shift toward renewable materials, including packaging, biomaterials and sustainable building solutions.[47] In 2014, its joint-operation pulp mill Montes del Plata in Uruguay was inaugurated.[48] [7][45][46][47][48]
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