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Incada®

Overview

Lightweight, reliable paperboard

Incada simply won’t let you down. It is pure, strong, and light, delivering higher yield and better packaging that uses less material. This family of versatile paperboards is all about full-speed printing performance, high productivity, and a uniform and consistent customer experience. It is a reliable choice for multiple packaging and graphical applications.

Product variations

Incada Exel

Incada Exel is designed for high-quality printing. Its lightweight construction makes it ideal for various packaging applications.

Incada Silk

Incada Silk is a fully coated white-backed FBB developed to ensure a supremely smooth print surface.

Barriers and coatings

Combine Incada with different barriers and coatings to add protection, strength, and design opportunities to your packaging.

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Applications

Folding box board for packaging

The Incada family of Folding Box Boards (FBB) offers dependable paperboards for various designs and end-user applications, including packaging for cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, chocolate and other food products. The high-quality board is also commonly used for book covers and greeting cards. All raw materials used in the making of Incada are approved for food contact, ensuring the best hygiene properties and taint and odour neutrality. 

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Sustainability

Sustainable folding box board

Incada is a folding box board made at Holmen's mill in Workington, UK, from fresh fibres of known and traceable origin. Pulp production is integrated with the paperboard mill, which holds chain-of-custody certifications and is largely self-sufficient in renewable thermal and electrical energy. Incada is stiff and lightweight with a higher yield than solid bleached boards and recycled products, which reduces fibre consumption and transportation weight. 

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Customer stories

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Wines & spirits

Premium packaging for the best of British

13 December, 2023

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Consumer goods

Scented candles smell even sweeter with Incada sustainable packaging solution

3 July, 2023

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Sustainability

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Food & confectionery

A sustainable switch to eco packaging

9 March, 2020

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Food & confectionery

Bright, bold and sustainable packaging on Incada

25 November, 2019

Technical data

To optimise its performance, Incada has specific fibre compositions in each layer of the construction. The outer layers consist of bleached chemical sulphate pulp finished with machine glazing, and the application of a double coating provides the foundation for a supremely smooth surface. The middle layers consist of mechanically separated fibres (TMP pulp), which provide high bulk and stiffness. The fibres in the different layers are treated differently to tailor the paperboard for its intended use. Incada's smooth surface and fast ink setting properties support high productivity in printing and foil applications. Creasing and embossing can also be performed efficiently. Incada can be printed using offset-litho, gravure, flexo, screen and digital printing.

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Incada Exel

Incada Silk

 

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Creasing recommendations - Incada

Enhancements

All our Incada products can be combined with different barriers and coatings to add protection, strength, and design opportunities to your packaging.

Polyethylene (PE)

Polyethylene (PE) coated paperboard is suitable for disposable cups or packaging for frozen foods, meat products, and chocolate. The PE barrier provides a simple yet efficient way to heat-seal end products.

Technical data sheet

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)

Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) barriers provide good sealability and act as an excellent oxygen and fat barrier. They are also extremely temperature-resistant and highly suitable for applications such as PET-coated dual-ovenable food trays.

Technical data sheet

Bio-E

Our Bio E barrier is based on renewable resources and adapted for organic recovery through composting or anaerobic digestion. The material is suitable for applications where biodegradability is desired.  

Technical data sheet

Metalprint

Metalprint has exceptional surface smoothness and offers excellent barrier properties. It is typically used for premium packaging applications where decorative printing is a must. 

Technical data sheet

Metalprint Digital

Metalprint Digital is metallised PET laminated paperboard, especially developed and certified for printing without pre-treatment in the HP Indigo 4-series. 

Technical data sheet

Alubarrier

Alubarrier is the densest barrier in our portfolio and is commonly used for sensitive products like crisps, ice cream and cereals. Extrusion-laminating the aluminium foil makes the paperboard impermeable to light, moisture, flavours, and gases. 

Technical data sheet

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Trust the performance

Order free paperboard samples of Incada in our webshop to experience its quality, strength, and reliable performance firsthand.

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