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Walki Group Customer Magazine

2015

WALKI IS SET FOR GROWTH

MEMBRANE MOMENTUMInsulation is key for energy-efficient buildings.

KEEPING MINERAL OIL AWAY FROM FOODWalki has a new innovative product for keeping mineral oil away from what we eat.

BUILDING THE FUTURE OF CARS, LAYER BY LAYERMicrophone wires are kept free from moisture thanks to Walki's product.

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COVER STORIESPublisher Leif FrilundEditor-in-Chief Marina KurulaEditorial board Kari Salminen, Ralph Mucha, Arno WolffEditorial content and layout Spoon FinlandCover photo iStockPrint Forsberg 2015Change of address marina.kurula@walki.com

CONTENTS10 Walki packages Swedish cookies16 Investing in growth18 The game-changing antenna 19 Refurbished Jatne plant 20 Tackling heat22 Hard work in the vineyard

All set to meet market demandOur job is to provide materials that make our customers successful in their chosen fields. To achieve this, we must meet our customers expectations when it comes to quality requirements, cost, lead times and innovative products.

Our customers are accountable to their customers, who sometimes might be the very end consumers. We must meet quality demands for buildings to be energy-efficient yet moisture-free and for food packaging to be safe. In many businesses, speed is translated into savings. So we work hard to cut our lead times and are mindful, as we all are, of keeping the costs down. We are able to deliver on all these points, but the true enabler of our strategy is innovation. We must constantly push our boundaries and chart unknown terrain to be able to answer to our customers needs.

Our innovation efforts are instrumental in achieving our growth ambitions. The stories in this magazine all show how Walki became a material science company where innovation efforts are driven by a goal we share with our customers, namely resource efficiency. For innovations to materialise into great solutions, you need the right hardware to support it. During the last year, we have worked tirelessly to ensure that our hardware our plants is up to the task.

We have invested heavily in our plants in Poland, in Wroclaw and Jatne, and

recently made a decision to invest in a new production line in Valkeakoski to meet the strong demand for our insulation facings.

After a period of lower economic activity, especially in Europe, we see a lot of growth potential in our chosen segments, particularly in the construction area and in consumer packaging, however without forgetting our industrial packaging solutions. We have invested not only in our plants but also in the development of our peoples skills and capabilities, and we are now poised to make our customers lives easier with new innovations.

In summer Walki reached a milestone by turning 85 years. It was on July 28, 1930, when the foundations for the company, which later evolved into todays Walki, were laid. Although we are inspired by our successful past, we do not want to live in it. We have to keep on looking ahead and pushing ourselves to find innovative new ways of doing things.

As we go to press, we are still in the process of divesting two plants the deal is subject to approval from the EU. Regardless of the outcome our focus is always on serving our customers in the best possible way.

Thank you for taking an interest in our stories!

Leif FrilundCEO

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BUILDING THEFUTURE OF CARS, LAYER BYLAYER

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text Sven Carlsson photo Dacia

Walkis polycrepe paper, a perforated layer built into car roofs, protects microphone wires from moisture.

Walki materials are versatile. That means that with a few tweaks they can be utilized both for packing solutions or for adding value in modern cars.

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Most people probably conduct hands-free phone conversations in their cars without thinking of the layers of compact materials that make it happen.

Among them is Walkis polycrepe paper, a light-weight, perforated layer built into car roofs to insulate them from condensated water and protect electronic features such as microphone wires.

Another important feature is sustainability. Walkis polycrepe is made of 80% natural fibres previously it was made of synthetic fibres.

Its a very simple but versatile product, says Klaus Brndel, Business Line Manager fr Walkis technical products.

We apply a specific perforation to the product to make it usable. Faurecia have four or five different layers they need to put together with a big press to make the headliner, the layer underneath the metal roof of a car. Its sandwiched into a very thin compression of materials about three or four millimeter thick, Brndel said.

The polycrepe paper has lead to a milestone for Walki: a long-term automotive partnership with the French automotive company Faurecia.

Walki offers Faurecia custom product development that will take its innovations straight from the lab to the manufacturer, where a consistent testing process ensures before the new feature reaches the customer.

Thanks to the direct cooperation with Faurecia purchasing and development team, we have realized together the qualification of Walkis Polycrepe into the final application in less than 6 month. A key success factor in the cooperation with Faurecia and for our future projects is the right understanding of our customers demand to realise product and process solution with clearly defined processes and fast decision-making.

The trend towards more economical cars, especially electrical powered ones, has already started.

Hybrid cars, already commonplace in some markets, require long battery lives. A crucial step on the way to the

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hybrid model of the future will be to make cars more energy efficient one of Walkis strengths.

We need to look at a solution to increase the heat insulation, says Brndel.

That will save the electrical power needed to heat the cars from inside. You save costs for every step of insulation.

Faurecia uses Walkis polycrepe paper for the Romanian automaker Dacias popular compact SUV model.

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You have to block the passage of humidity that comes from condensation.

Faurecia, a French parts giant was asked in 2014 to find a solution to install microphones in the roofs of Dacias popular SUV models.

When we were in the process of vetting suppliers, we got a contact at Walki from one of our employees in Russia, said Ivn Arroyo Diestro, Commodity Buyer at Faurecia with Walki as one of his accounts.

What began as a test run last year has now turned into a full-fledged collaboration.

The French company has used Walkis polycrepe paper for the Romanian automaker Dacias popular compact SUV model, which hit the market in 2010.

Dacia needed a technical solution that would let them incorporate the microphone, and we were able to provide it, Arroyo Diestro said.

The film laminated with the paper stops humidity due to condensation on the metal roof from passing through. That way, it improves the isolation of the car, he added.

Walkis products and product developments have the chance to become key in the future plans for Faurecia, which supplies parts for one in four cars around the globe.

What we expect from Walki is a good performance in terms of quality, cost and delivery, Arroyo Diestro said.

As well as one of Walkis hallmarks: innovation.We expect Walki to propose innovations that can help

improve our product.

Walkis polycrepe paper a problem-solver for Faurecia

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A key success factor in the

cooperation with Faurecia and

for our future projects is the

right understanding of our

customers demand to realise product and process solution

with clearly defined processes

and fast decision-making.

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Research shows that many packaged foods contain mineral oil, which is harmful to humans. Several EU countries are looking into legislation to prevent mineral oil migration. Meanwhile, Walki has developed Mineral Oil Safe Technology (MOST), an efficient extrusion coating that keeps mineral oil away from our food.text Isabelle Kliger photo Walki

KEEPING MINERAL OIL AWAY FROM FOOD

The country leading the debate surround-ing mineral oil migration is Germany. Mirka Nevala, Walkis VP for Business Development, believes the legislation could be introduced in Germany as early as 2016 and it will pave the

way for EU-wide mineral oil regulations.Mineral oil contains Mineral Oil Aromatic Hydrocar-

bon (MOAH), which is especially harmful for humans because our systems cant break it down. It accumulates in our bodies when we eat packaged food, explains Nevala.

Nevala recalls a TV programme that aired in Germany a few years ago, in which a child was pictured with a large glass of oil in front of her.

The message was that this was the amount of oil the little girl would consume in her lifetime, as a result of eating packaged food like cereal, rice and pasta, she says.

The programme was prompted by a study led by Dr Koni Grob and the Swiss Official Food Control Authority. Grobs study of 119 Ger-man food products remains the most rele-vant research on mineral oils to date, and proves that there is a significant ris