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Pro Carton is delighted to introduce the sponsors of the Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2025
Training Day Sponsor – Cartonboard manufacturer
FOLBB: a customer centric approach
FOLBB is a leading producer of virgin fiber cartonboard, with a strong customer-centric approach. Operating two mills in Baiersbronn, Germany, and Eerbeek, Netherlands, FOLBB produces premium folding boxboard from virgin wood fibres, under the well-known product names Accurate, Excellent Top and Optimus Top. Our virgin fibre cartonboard is designed for demanding applications, including pharmaceuticals, personal care, food packaging, and other areas requiring functional barriers and sustainability.
Commitment to sustainability
The concept of sustainability is of paramount importance to our operations. We focuses on continuously improving our production processes to minimise environmental impact and enhance resource efficiency.
A focused approach to customer needs
FOLBB distinguishes itself through its commitment to our customers. With a team deeply involved in all business processes, we deliver customised solutions and a highly responsive service. The central European location of our mills enables shorter transport distances, ensuring fast delivery and reliable supply chains, thanks to our reliable transport partners. The scale of our mills, combined with our strong customer focus, enables us to respond flexibly to customer requirements when it comes to both order volume and cartonboard dimensions.
Confidently facing the future
As global demand for sustainable, plastic-free packaging grows, FOLBB is well-positioned to meet these evolving needs. By combining its specialisation in barrier technologies with a focus on customer satisfaction and environmental responsibility, we contribute to a more sustainable packaging future with confidence and innovation.
For more information please visit: folbb.com
Training Day Sponsor – Folding carton manufacturer and Student Welcome Dinner Sponsor
Where people, brands, and folding carton meet is where the magic happens at Van Genechten Packaging (VGP), every single time.
VGP is a leading independent European packaging specialist with over 190 years of experience and more than €500 million in annual revenue. Headquartered in Belgium, the company operates 14 converting sites, an extrusion site, a rigid box centre, and two fulfilment locations across 9 European countries.
Renowned for its “people first” and customer-oriented approach, VGP delivers a wide range of packaging solutions to the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector – including printed folding cartons, offset laminated corrugated board, and high-impact point-of-sale (POS) displays.
Its teams combine technical know-how and creative agility to develop and deliver future-ready packaging and impactful display solutions across the entire value chain. VGP supports leading brands throughout Europe, building long-term partnerships grounded in service, trust, and innovation.
Privately owned and driven by its core values of collaboration, ownership, respect, and excellence, VGP continues to invest in people, technology, and sustainability to deliver on its promise of “Magic in the Making.”
For more information, please visit: www.vangenechten.com
Awards Night Sponsor
Duran Doğan Basım ve Ambalaj Sanayi A.Ş. stands as one of Turkey’s leading producers of offset-printed folding cartons, with a heritage dating back to the early 20th century.
Born from the merger of two long-established firms, Duran Ofset and Doğan Matbaacılık in 2005, the company has combined decades of expertise and innovation to serve both local and global markets.
Operating from four advanced manufacturing facilities in Istanbul, covering a total of 37,000m², Duran Dogan has an annual processing capacity of approximately 50,000 tons, with nearly 60–65% of its production exported worldwide.
As a preferred partner of world-renowned brands, Duran Dogan provides high-quality packaging solutions for industries including food, beverages, personal care, home products, pharmaceuticals, and luxury items.
Duran Dogan had an ambition of finding a sustainable solution for blending beauty with responsibility to produce high quality visuality with zero impact to the nature. The Gloss and Green technology which represents metpol application with zero plastic content, is a result of this ambition.
As a pioneer company, Duran Dogan has widened its perspective to making new alternatives for existing packaging and has launched a new company, Avant-Garde Paper: a company dedicated to developing 100% recyclable flexible and carton board packaging solutions to the industry.
For more information please visit: www.durandogan.com
Student Awards Sponsor
The MM Group is a global leader in consumer packaging, enabling people to live a better life on a better planet.
The company provides a comprehensive range of recycled and virgin fibre-based products including cartonboard, folding cartons, kraft papers, uncoated fine papers, leaflets and labels. Designed with a strong focus on innovation and recyclability, our products contribute to a more sustainable future.
Present in circa 30 countries at 63 locations, MM Group is a global leader in the industry, with a highly committed workforce of nearly 14,000 dedicated employees.
MM Group operates in three divisions, each with independent profit responsibility: MM Board & Paper, MM Food & Premium Packaging and MM Pharma & Healthcare Packaging.
The global environmental non-profit CDP has recognised the company’s transparency and performance in corporate sustainability with Leadership Ratings in Climate, Forests and Water.
As a publicly listed company on the Vienna Stock Exchange, the MM Group drives performance, innovation, and sustainability in consumer packaging with a steadfast long-term orientation.
At MM, we Think next.
For more information, please visit: mm.group
Student Awards Sponsor
RDM Group is one of Europe’s leading packaging board producers. The Group is committed to the manufacturing and production of cartonboard for packaging solutions using recycled fibres. All products are made from renewable materials and are designed to be fully recyclable, supporting a circular economy.
The main business areas are White-Lined Chipboard (WLC) and Solid Board: WLC is predominantly used for a broad range of end-use such as food packaging, cleaning, personal care and home appliance. Solid Board in high grammages and thicknesses is well-suited for luxury packaging, puzzles, games, displays and the publishing market.
For RDM Group, sustainability is a core value upon which its business model is built, reflecting a deep commitment to environmental responsibility and innovation in environmentally-friendly packaging.
For more information, please visit: rdmgroup.com
Material Sponsors
Pro Carton would like to thank MM Group, Metsa Board and RDM Group for supplying cartonboard to all the students that took part in this year’s Pro Carton Young Designers Award. Without these companies, the competition would not be possible.
