Stora Enso Wins the Prestigious Red Dot Design Award 2025 for the World Ski Championships’ Medal Boxes

Stora Enso has won the Red Dot Design award for the medal boxes for World Ski Championships 2025 in Trondheim, Norway. The award was granted for outstanding design and creative performance in the category of Brands and Communication 2025. The products selected by the Red Dot Jury are aesthetically appealing, functional, sustainable or innovative, but what they all have in common is their outstanding design. Red Dot Award is one of the most significant design competitions in the world.

Stora Enso served as the presenting sponsor of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2025 in Trondheim, Norway. The event organizers aimed to create the most sustainable event of its kind, and Stora Enso contributed to this ambition by sharing its expertise and innovations in packaging. The packaging materials used in the games were fully recyclable and made from renewable cardboard and corrugated board.

The award-winning medal box aligns with sustainability values and comes with high functionality. It is easy to handle, even with gloves, and features braille inscription, making it accessible and intuitive also for visually impaired athletes. The braille feature underscores the event’s commitment to equality and accessibility. The box combines comfort and luxury, with soft touch and high gloss finishes, and the graphic design distinctively incorporates visual elements for the championships to effectively display and protect the medals.

“We are delighted to be recognized by the Red Dot Award for our groundbreaking product design. Our design team is particularly pleased to have succeeded in creating a medal box that beautifully displays the medals while ensuring user-friendliness, and which at the same time supports the Nordic World Ski Championships values. In addition, the medal box reflects Stora Enso’s strong material expertise,” says Timo Anonen, Head of Product Management Packaging Solutions, Stora Enso. “We are proud to see Stora Enso’s medal box design receive this global recognition. Sustainability and inclusivity played an important role in the 2025 World Ski Championships, and these boxes reflect those values in a meaningful way. They remind us that even small choices – like using renewable and recyclable materials or adding accessible features such as braille – can make a real difference,” says Susanna Sieff, FIS Sustainability Director.

About the Red Dot Awards

The Red Dot Design Award is one of the biggest design competitions in the world. In three disciplines, participants submit products, communication projects and brands as well as prototypes and concepts. The distinction “Red Dot” is an internationally recognised seal of outstanding design quality. The award winners are presented in Red Dot’s yearbooks and museums as well as on the Red Dot website. Additional information can be found at www.red-dot.org.

About Stora Enso 

The forest is at the heart of Stora Enso, and we believe that everything made from fossil-based materials today can be made from a tree tomorrow. We are the leading provider of renewable products in packaging, biomaterials, and wooden construction, and one of the largest private forest owners in the world. In 2024, Stora Enso had approximately 19,000 employees, and the Group sales were EUR 9 billion. Stora Enso’s shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Oy (STEAV, STERV) and Nasdaq Stockholm AB (STE A, STE R). In addition, the shares are traded in the USA OTC Markets (OTCQX) as ADRs and ordinary shares (SEOAY, SEOFF, SEOJF). storaenso.com

Contact:

Carl Norell – SVP Corporate Communications – tel. +46 72 241 0349 

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