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NEWS CONSUMABLES AND PAPER

Hahnemühle launches first hemp The Navigator

increases price
paper for digital book printing The Navigator Company on
Nov. 3 announced that it will
increase tissue prices by 8 to
10% in the Iberian markets
German paper manufacturer paper exceeded my and above 10% outside Iberia.
Hahnemühle has launched expectations, offering a This increase will be effective
what it claims is the world’s beautiful tactile and sensory for all shipments from
first hybrid printing paper experience and giving the December 1.
made from hemp fibres. book a fresh and completely The Navigator Company
The business presented the new look. At the same time, it said the price hike is the result
new uncoated paper for book closes the loop of protecting of significant increases in
and brochure printing at the native forests and finding input costs, such as chemical
Frankfurt Book Fair 2021 last alternative raw materials for products, packaging products
month. It is designed for high- papermaking.” (plastics and containerboard),
speed inkjet, analogue offset The hemp paper is logistics, and pulp.
and other flexible digital The paper was developed exclusively for printing H is for HEMP produced with pure spring The Navigator Company
printing systems. water which Hahnemühle noted that the world price
Heidemarie Hinger, delivers outstanding results in documentation and research has used since its inception at index for pulp has increased
product and business text, photo and image on hemp, I want to encourage its sole production facility in a 78% since January. In
development manager at printing for authors, agencies, people to leave their comfort natural reserve. The water is
Hahnemühle, said: “It is the print providers and zone and get involved in fed into the nearby river addition, electricity costs in
first paper made from publishers.” proactive problem solving of following a largely closed Portugal are over 3.6 times
sustainable hemp fibres The paper was developed our socio-ecological crisis. paper machine cycle, free higher than in 2020 and
grown in Europe for exclusively for printing the “Finding a hemp paper to from chemical cleaning natural gas is 5.8 times higher.
environmentally conscious book H is for HEMP, a hemp print my book was part of my agents, biocides, or Similar trends are verified
print products. It captivates enc y c l o p a e d i a b y commitment to make my preservatives. across all European countries.
with the authenticity and photographer and author own work more sustainable The energy used for The company is in the process
haptics of a paper made from Maren Krings. and to use hemp wherever manufacturing comes of informing its clients about
sustainable hemp fibres. She said: “With my possible. exclusively from 100% the details of the new prices to
“Hahnemühle hemp paper w o r ld w id e p h o t o “Hahnemühle’s hemp renewable sources. be applied.
Sappi turns around profits, but Fenner adds new eco

challenges remain paper to range

Sappi has hailed an almost
$150m (£112m) profits Fenner Paper has launched a
turnaround in its year end new paper made from
agricultural waste, in a
results, but has warned that timely move to coincide with
it expects the impact of last week’s COP26 event.
spiking energy costs and The PaperWise range of
supply chain challenges to paper and board is the
continue, especially in brainchild of Dutchman
Europe, its largest market. Peter van Rosmalen, who has
CEO Steve Binnie said he a background in the
was very pleased with the packaging industry and was An example of PaperWise in use
group’s return to profitability inspired to look into material, consistently high
for the year and praised the alternative materials for quality of output, and a
“dedication and resilience of papermaking by his six-year- sound CSR policy.
the Sappi team in turning a Binnie: Encouraged by the growing resilience of global economies old granddaughter. Fenner Paper is now
loss of $135m in 2020 into a The firm’s motto is “Wise stocking PaperWise, which
profit of $13m for 2021”. various global lockdowns raw materials and rising raw with waste”. comes in a wide range from
In the year to 31 eased was welcomed, the material prices impacted the PaperWise is made in lightweight and copier
September, sales rose from resulting global container group across the board, in Q4 India and South America, papers, to packaging board
$4.6bn to $5.3bn, while shortages, port congestion this had largely been offset after van Rosmalen found and corrugated. It has a
EBITDA excluding special and the resulting freight by a strong performance by that European mills were natural, slightly speckled
items rose by 41% to $532m. price increases were less so its US business, which “unfortunately not yet ready shade and is unbleached.
Net debt was largely and resulted in a delivery generates 28% of sales, and for this innovation”. Van Rosmalen will join
unchanged at $1.9bn. backlog of 100,000 tonnes of higher pulp prices. He said the manufacturing Fenner Paper at the London
The group said that while dissolved pulp. The European market partners had to meet three Packaging Innovations expo
the quicker than anticipated While this combined with accounts for almost half of key conditions: able to use that takes place from 1-2
business bounce back as the increased global demand for the group’s revenue. agricultural waste as a raw December to show the range.

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