News

Lenzing awarded WWF environmental honours & growing sales of Recycled Copier

16/01/2012

Lenzing are increasing production of recycled A4 and A3 copier paper, across a range of specifications, including offering different whiteness values, varying levels of recycled content and diverse sources of recycled material. This is targeted in particular at deliveries to the UK as this represents the majority of the usage of recycled copy paper in the EU.

This follows Lenzing’s success in being recognised as the papermill with the most positive environmental impact one of only a handful of paper mills to be given the highest honours in the WWF Check Your Paper (CYP) rating scheme. The database is open and transparent to the public and can be accessed at http://checkyourpaper.panda.org/.

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Lenzing begins C4G scheme to recycle siliconised self-adhesive liner material

14/11/2011

LENZING PAPIER GmbH in Austria invests in recycling capacity of release liner waste.

Investment at Lenzing Papier improves process capabilities and allows use of larger volumes of silicone coated waste papers in production of recycled speciality papers.

This material has traditionally been difficult to remove in an ethical way as it was only generally useful for thermal recyling (burning) or sending to landfill.

This system allows Lenzing to collect used liner material from self-adhesive processing companies and to recycle it into very high quality paper for graphical and siliconising applications.

The 9th International Label Conference was held this month in Austria

31/10/2011

B&B recently held their regular Label Conference in Bad Hofgastein, Austria.

This was attended by over 200 delegates from around the world. Speakers came from a variety of backgrounds from the bottling and canning industries, as well as from sales/marketing and finance.

The B&B label conference is held every 2 years and this year the theme was Ecology, Economy and Trends in Labelling.

Papico appointed UK agent of leading U.S. bio plastic company

17/10/2011

Yorkshire-based paper agency Papico has been appointed UK agent to a leading U.S bio plastic technology company Danimer to help it to market its revolutionary plant-based renewable hot melt adhesive to the UK carton industry.

The Georgia-based company also develops bio-degradable plastics and extrusion coatings in addition to hot melt adhesives – all which are aimed at reducing the dependence on petroleum.

Gascogne Laminates envelope event

26/09/2011

Gascogne Laminates hosted a very informative conference on 21st / 22nd September, prior to the FEPE event in Edinburgh. The thrust of the conference message was to underline the explosive growth in packet deliveries, as compared with reduction in letter post.

Gascogne offer a wide variety of protective and secure envelope substrates in response to this growth and are represented in the UK by Papico. For more details, please get in touch via the Enquiries page.

New High Speed Inkjet Paper from Glatfelter

11/07/2011

Glatfelter are enjoying increasing success in the high speed inkjet market with their film coated paper Restorecote.

After many months of development and testing at a number of OEM's, Restorecote is now being produced and sold regularly in 67gsm and 96gsm.

The specially developed coating allows the printer to produce sharper, more defined images, with much stronger colours using both dye based and pigmented inks.

This new addition to Glatfelter's range of papers qualified for high speed inkjet presses increases the options for printers and end customers. Their range now consists of uncoated, treated, film coated, fully coated and specific book papers.

Paper is GREEN

03/06/2011

Please don’t be alarmed or feel guilty: it's OK to print this web page.

Paper is a biodegradable, compostable, renewable, sustainable product made from trees. Growing and harvesting trees provides jobs for millions of men and women.

Working forests are good for the environment, providing clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat and carbon storage. For facts and figures on how green paper is, click the news item title above.

Brigl & Bergmeister taken over by ROXCEL Group

20/05/2011

The Vienna-based multinational paper trading company Roxcel Group has signed an agreement on Thursday 19th May 2011 to purchase the paper manufacturer Brigl & Bergmeister and Vevce from the Prinzhorn Group, taking over complete ownership.

As a fellow long-term sales partner of B&B, Roxcel is well known to us and presents no concern for the future, either of the B&B mills or for Papico’s representation of them in the UK and Ireland.

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New part-recycled Blue Back Poster paper

28/04/2011

Lenzing Papier have added a 50% recycled fibre version to their popular range of blue back poster papers. Lenza Affiche Blue Offset FSC and Lenza Affiche Blue Digital FSC are produced using 50% FSC Virgin fibre and 50% Recycled fibre. Lenzing Papier’s poster papers are available in sheets and reels through their exclusive agent in the UK, Papico Ltd.

New Self-Adhesive laminate materials

07/04/2011

Papico Ltd are now working exclusively with Gascogne Laminates in the UK, selling their range of Self Adhesive materials produced at their Martigny plant in Switzerland. Gascogne’s range includes standard products such as Machine Coated, Vellum, Thermals and Synthetics with permanent and removable adhesives. They also produce many special products including security features, piggy-backs, ultra-removable, strip coatings, reinforced and adhesives for difficult surfaces. Contact us for any further information.