Sustainability in paper-fibre based products andservices to the print, carton board and media sectors
DenmaurNewsNews ArchiveDenmaur News--January 2021
Product updates (with a 'game changer'), tree planting and Library Shelfie Day
UPM Fine News
Denmaur holds a comprehensive stock holding of FSC certified UPM Fine sheets for next day delivery throughout the UK. CutStar and web offset reels, direct from the mill, will also be Carbon Balanced when purchased through Denmaur. Marketing and Sustainability Director, Danny Doogan: 'Offsetting is becoming an everyday feature and more of us are recognising it as a necessary process in the fight against climate change. Carbon Balanced Paper carries the integrity and importance to those who both produce and consume printed media. When used in conjunction with well-known environmental products such as UPM Fine, it makes for a highly sustainable graphical paper solution'.
As of 1st January 2021, UPM Fine will be the next product family member to be Carbon Balanced in Denmaur's product portfolio.
Stocked by Denmaur for over 20 years, UPM Fine is a high white uncoated paper suitable for a host of end-use applications. Carbon Balancing will add to its array of impressive environmental credentials.
The decision to Carbon Balance UPM Fine follows the success of Denmaur's other products that are Carbon Balanced.
Managing Director, Nick Gee: 'Carbon Balanced Paper is a recognised and established offsetting scheme for paper and print. We are known as the UK stockist merchant for UPM Fine products, it was a natural decision to Carbon Balance the range and further support the critical work undertaken by the World Land Trust.'
Carbon Balanced Paper is an offsetting scheme operated by the World Land Trust, a global conservation charity whose patrons include Sir David Attenborough. The scheme is based on a REDD+ programme (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation), which is recognised as one of the most effective methods for removing atmospheric carbon emissions by conserving, protecting and further developing vast areas forestry and high conservation land, important biodiversity and the habitat a number of endangered species.
A registered Carbon Balanced Paper logo can be applied to customer artwork that uses UPM Fine from Denmaur, and the World Land Trust will issue an official certificate to endorse the amount of carbon that has been saved.
Denmaur boasts a strong portfolio of Carbon Balanced at Source products that come with offsetting credentials at no additional cost. In addition to UPM Fine, their offering includes: Revive recycled coated and uncoated, Amadeus and Amadeus Digital, Innovation, Arctic Snow, Fixter self-adhesive, Ibema Supera and Supera White, and Delipac.
Denmaur Paper Media Launches the Paper Wrap Game Changer
Denmaur Paper Media has introduced Revive Mail Wrap to its growing and innovative stock portfolio, a recycled and recyclable paper wrap that is Carbon Balanced and stored at their Bardon warehouse for immediate delivery.
Aimed primarily at the growing paper wrap market for magazines and catalogues, the new Revive product has been 12 months in development with a European manufacturer. The result is a robust, highly water resistant and completely sustainable paper wrap that is opaque, printable and capable of delivery in comparatively low weights.
With plastic legislation imminent and the universally bad press that single-use plastic has endured in recent years, more and more publications and direct mail are switching to the use of paper wrap.
Denmuar's Marketing and Sustainability Director, Danny Doogan, commented: 'Starch based and PE lined paper wraps have been adopted as alternatives to poly-wrap, but they can also have practical, commercial and sustainable implications that you won't get with a pure paper product'.
Revive Mail Wrap is made from predominately recycled fibre with a mix of FSC certified virgin and kraft pulp that not only gives it a much higher than average bulk, but also the strength needed in low weights to carry printed materials through the postal process. It is also produced with an exceptionally low Cobb value which gives it a high moisture resistance, providing added protection to the contents within a Revive Mail Wrap product.
The quest to provide a sustainable paper wrap was borne out of Denmaur's involvement in paper wrap from an early stage. Denmaur's MD, Nick Gee elaborated: 'Denmaur has always been known for our expertise in the publications market and so were champions of paper wrap right from the start'. Nick went on to say: 'Because of our reputation for sustainability, and being associated with innovative products such as Revive and Delipac, it was inevitable that we would develop a Revive product for this market that also carries the Carbon Balanced Paper label'.
Revive Mail Wrap is competitively priced and available from Denmaur's Bardon warehouse for next day delivery. At present the range consists of 5 of the most popular reel sizes in 80gsm for convertors, but it is also available in lower weights and bespoke reel sizes on request.
Nick confirmed: 'We expect the stock range to evolve as more dedicated machinery comes onto the market and more magazines and catalogues make the switch to paper wrap. With all of its attributes and the fact that it's recycled and Carbon Balanced stock item, we think Revive Mail Wrap is a genuine game changer'
Scientists address myths over large-scale tree planting
A very important article that points to the protection and conservation of existing, natural forestry and biodiversity as the most effective reforestation option for addressing climate change.
That is what Carbon Balanced Paper is all about, and you can easily demonstrate your support for this scheme when producing printed media and communications. Read more on our Carbon Balanced Paper website page.
Read the full BBC article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55795816
Denmaur Celebrates National Library Shelfie Day
Wednesday 27th January was Library Shelfie Day – especially important this year as we remain safe at home during the lockdown period.
Each year, Library Shelfie Day provides an opportunity for book lovers to re-arrange their collections and show-off their collected works to the world at large.
It is also a celebration of the use of paper and print (albeit via social media and e-mail), showing how books are not only informative and entertaining, but they also have aesthetic, ornamental and sentimental value.
Library Shelfie Day also provides an insight to the collector's personality - whether a music lover, a sport enthusiast, a political thinker or a die-hard romantic, you bear your soul on the fourth Wednesday of January.
We asked some of the Denmaur Media team to participate this year and their photographs and comments were posted on social media.
Doug Jessop
Julian Townsend
Danny Doogan
Paul Cooper