Paper

Paper merchants have adapted their ranges as the end looms for Stora Enso’s high-end Lumi grade.

Label material sales are up at UPM but graphic paper deliveries were down 21% in Q3 due to Covid-19. Separately the group said it had received “quite a lot of interest” in its up-for-sale Shotton mill...

UPM’s Speciality Papers division has launched a new range of food-safe kraft papers including a new translucent paper that can be used as an alternative to plastics.

Arjowiggins has launched a new “revolutionary” translucent paper-based barrier material that outperforms the preservation properties of plastic in food packaging and is fully recyclable.

Intergraf has backed calls for printed products to be included in the EU Timber Regulation aimed at combating illegal logging.

Industry colleagues are mourning former National Association of Paper Merchants president Peter Shrive who passed away earlier this month aged 77.

Crown Van Gelder is gearing up to make paper using sugar beet fibres on an industrial scale, in what it believes is a world first.

Iceland has teamed with ProPrint Group, Ravenwood Packaging and fruit grower Keelings to take a further step toward achieving its plastic reduction goal.

Portals has completed a £20m-plus revamp that includes a major rebuild of its PM1 paper machine.

TI Media has outsourced paper procurement in what is viewed as a significant move as the publisher is integrated into new owner Future.