Paper News
Aug. 2006
Yupo launches new premium synthetic grade
Yupo Accel is a new premium grade from synthetic paper manufacturer Yupo Corporation America that promises to reduce drying time up to 80% compared to previous offerings. Accel boasts improved gloss and stiffness, chemical and stain resistance, 100% waterproofing, and recyclable content. The new grade is available in 68 lb. text and 78 lb. text, as well as 58 lb. cover, 74 lb. cover and 86 lb. cover.Contact: www.yupo.com
Brighter, whiter Carolina
Carolina papers get a boost from International Paper while changes are afoot to create the Next Generation Carolina. Carolina Coated Cover goes from a 91 brightness to a 94 brightness and 145 CIE whiteness, while shifting to a new blue-white shade. Carolina Ultra light-88 and MD Blanks are switching to an 88 brightness with a neutral-white shade. International Paper also offers a matching text and cover portfolio with its uncoated Williamsburg and Hammermill papers. The new Carolina Ultra light-88 and MD Blanks simplify the company’s offerings from four to two shades. Contact: www.internationalpaper.com
Vintage Cougar gets better with age
Like the aged goodness of vintage wine. That’s how Weyerhaeuser is touting its new and improved Cougar premium opaque, with a brilliant 98 brightness and 10% recycled content, in a brochure called Better with Age. The company eschewes UV printing in favour of conventional approaches, and features 4-colour quadtone photography, double-bump black solids, and dot-for-dot varnish. The stock in the brochure includes 100 lb. Cougar Smooth, 100 lb. Cougar Cover, 80 lb. Cougar Natural Smooth, and 80 lb. Cougar Vellum. Production notes detail how each image was reproduced.Contact: www.cougaropaque.com
Website for eco alternatives
Fox River Paper’s new web-based environmental brochure, The Nature of Paper: A Complete Story, delivers the news on environmental stewardship. It identifies the three major components of paper production— fibre, water and energy—and describes how Fox River Paper uses each. Other features: links to an eco-glossary, and an eco-calculator that adds up environmental savings from using recycled papers and compares percentages of recycled content to calculate the savings that result from using higher post-consumer fibre levels.Contact: www.foxriverpaper.com or www.gilbertpaper.com
Decorated Paper debuts leather-like cover paper
Decorated Paper, a division of Hazen Paper Company, has a pair of new covers in its assortment of specialty covers materials: Attaché and Attaché Flex. Attaché is a 12 pt. stock with a richly embossed surface on a tough black kraft base. Classic embossing patterns include leather, a woven homespun, and a finely textured deerskin. Stocks are available in 100-sheet cartons of 23" x 35" sheets. Attaché Flex is latex-impregnated to take resilience even further. Deerskin embossed, it is flexible enough to stand up to repeated folding and unfolding. At 16 pt., it is coated on both sides to look just as good inside as it does outside. It’s shipped with 50 26.5" x 36" sheets per carton. Both stocks are versatile, suitable for printing, scoring, folding, embossing, foil stamping, die cutting or punching.Contact: www.decoratedpaper.com
Guide proposes designs that support sustainability
Field Guide: Eco-friendly, Efficient and Effective Print, Monadnock Paper Mills’ new guide for graphic arts professionals, delivers design alternatives that support sustainability without sacrificing style and impact. Inspired by nature field guides, the book is printed on Monadnock’s Astrolite PC100, a 100% uncoated post-consumer fibre, process chlorine-free, archival-quality paper. It’s chalk-full of tips, from choosing a paper source, to binding the finished piece; contents and chemical labelling; sizing to reduce paper waste; inks, finishing techniques, and coatings; binding; printing processes; and using environmental logos.Contact: www.mpm.com
