Tag: Paper

  • Sappi updates hot seal packaging paper

    [caption id="attachment_5009" align="alignleft" width="200"] Sappi has announced Sappi Seal, a second-generation packaging paper with integrated sealing functionality. This new version promises improved sealing properties and is also recyclable in the paper waste stream.

  • Carbon balanced paper relaunched in UK

    CarbonCo, working in partnership with international conservation charity World Land Trust (WLT), has relaunched the Carbon Balanced Paper concept to the UK. This aims to help printers source paper that has been specifically carbon-balanced so that they and their customers can improve their environmental response.

  • Epson recycles office paper

    Epson has developed a machine that can recycle shredded copy paper into new paper suitable for office use. The PaperLab is a reasonably compact machine that’s meant to sit in an office and will give companies the ability to securely destroy old documents and turn them into new paper, without having to send the papers…

  • Mohawk and Arjowiggins team up

    Mohawk, a US manufacturer of fine papers, has partnered with Arjowiggins Creative Papers with the two paper manufacturers sharing best-in-class manufacturing capabilities, facilities, technologies, sales and marketing resources and expertise. As part of this Mohawk has granted Arjowiggins Creative Papers exclusive rights to manufacture its Superfine paper and to use its proprietary i-Tone treatment for…

  • Sappi set to increase European prices

    Following on from the general turmoil in the paper market and the closure of both PaperLinx UK and Tullis Russell, Sappi has announced that it will increase the prices of its European coated fine and coated mechanical reels by 8 percent.

  • Sappi installs web inspection at paper mill 2

    Sappi has added a new web inspection system to paper mill 2 at its Alfeld site in Hanover, Germany. Sappi has already spent some €61 million in converting the PM2 paper mill in the past year as well as the commissioning of the new Paper Lab a few months ago.

  • VTT develops paper-based drug test

    The Finnish research group VTT has developed a drug test printed on paper. This is a relatively cheap way of producing such tests, suitable to high volume production and allows for a rapid analysis as to whether a compound – in this case, morphine – is present in a given sample. Possible future applications of…

  • Sappi opens new Paper lab

    Sappi has opened a new Paper lab at its Alfeld mill to help expand its speciality papers division. The mill has benefitted from a €61 million rebuild of the PM 2 paper machine last year.

  • Arjo Wiggins adds ultra matt paper

    Arjo Wiggins has added a new Ultra Matt print finish to its Rives-Sensation range of creative papers. Sensation Matt, which can be printed up to a resolution of 225 dpi, is available in two finishes (Tradition or Tactile) with a selection of high white or natural white.

  • Report recommends switch to containerboard

    RISI, which provides research on the global forest products industry, has published a study that suggests that European graphic paper producers could switch to other products such as packaging and specialty papers to cope with the overcapacity in the market place that has led to extensive machine closures.

  • Antalis to buy Xerox Office paper distribution

    Antalis is to buy Xerox’s office paper distribution business in Western Europe, along with the exclusive rights to market and distribute Xerox branded paper and digital print media in Western Europe. This will considerably strengthen Antalis’s position in this market as well as allow it to maximise its logistics. The deal is still subject to…

  • Antalis announces new digital papers

    Antalis has introduced a new range of papers for digital printers, Olin Digital, an addition to the Olin range of premium uncoated papers. The new range has been certified compatible with HP Indigo and dry toner presses with sizes specifically cut for HP Indigo presses. Weights range from 90 to 300gsm, and there’s a choice…