As the digital printing market continues to grow, Spicers Paper says it is making paper selection for printing on-demand and variable data jobs easier with the addition of another digital paper to its range.

PaperlinX has completed the initial review of its Tasmanian paper manufacturing business, Tas Paper, however the company has not yet made any decision on the fate of the mills at Burnie and Wesley Vale.

Epson Australia says it is making it easier for its graphics arts customers to achieve ISO 12647-7 certification with the introduction of a new proofing paper that is designed in accordance with this standard.

Australian Paper’s ENVI range of Carbon Neutral paper has been announced as a winner of three 2009 Australian Business Awards including best eco-friendly product, product innovation and marketing excellence. The Awards recognise organisations that demonstrate business and product excellence, sustainability and commercial success in their respective industries, according to Australian Paper.

Dong Il Paper in Ansan, South Korea has successfully started up its containerboard machine after the installation of an OptiLayer multilayer curtain coater supplied by Metso. The OptiLayer coater enables the mill to produce a totally new coated containerboard grade. Meanwhile, Metso has launched a China Scholarship scheme with seven Chinese educational institutions.

Longbottom Digital Paper has also claimed success at PacPrint claiming the show has enabled it to establish a larger client base within the Victorian market and to push its Mondi Color Copy range of paper.

Longbottom Digital Paper has also claimed success at PacPrint claiming the show has enabled it to establish a larger client base within the Victorian market and to push its Mondi Color Copy range of paper.

Dong Il Paper in Ansan, South Korea has successfully started up its containerboard machine after the installation of an OptiLayer multilayer curtain coater supplied by Metso. The OptiLayer coater enables the mill to produce a totally new coated containerboard grade. Meanwhile, Metso has launched a China Scholarship scheme with seven Chinese educational institutions.

PaperlinX has completed the sale of its Australian manufacturing business, Australian Paper to Nippon Paper Group, reducing Australian Paper’s debt by $500m. As previously reported the sale excludes the two Tasmanian mills at Burnie and Wesley Vale, whose fates are yet to be decided.

PaperlinX has completed the sale of its Australian manufacturing business, Australian Paper to Nippon Paper Group, reducing Australian Paper’s debt by $500m. As previously reported the sale excludes the two Tasmanian mills at Burnie and Wesley Vale, whose fates are yet to be decided.

Paper maker Mondi has received confirmation that Color Copy, its brand of colour laser paper, remains the benchmark leader in total print quality according to the latest FOGRA test.

Successfully responding to changes from customers often leads to success in other aspects of business as well. Spicers Paper found this out when it established a department dedicated to digital print solutions, and almost immediately came up with a world class paper

Sponsors of the ballet Don Quixote say an invitation to the ballet, produced as a functional fan, and entered in this year's Pride In Print awards, owes much to the innovative use of digital printing and print finishing technology.

Paper manufacturer Mondi has launched its new High-End Range, which the company claims includes papers in grammages from 60 – 250 g/m2 and is therefore well suited to a range of applications.

The Australian Plantation Products and Paper Industry Council (A3P) and Treefarm Investment Managers Association (TIMA) have merged in order to streamline and strengthen the policy development and representation currently provided by the two organisations.

Australian Paper’s ENVI paper range, produced at the company’s Shoalhaven paper mill, has been accredited Greenhouse Friendly carbon neutral by the Australian Government Department of Climate Change. Australian Paper is the first paper products manufacturer in NSW to be awarded the certification by the government.

PaperlinX has been notified by Nippon Paper Group that the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has advised it has no objection to the purchase of Australian Paper by Nippon Paper.

International paper and packaging group has announced its offset paper and board is now Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) certified.

PaperlinX has been notified by Nippon Paper Group that the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) has advised it has no objection to the purchase of Australian Paper by Nippon Paper.

A winner has been named after internet votes were tallied in Spicers Paper’s Pimp My Paper competition where designers and creatives made custom versions of specially created cardbots.

Spicers Paper has put up 16 designer bags for auction online with Trade Me to help raise money for a World Wildlife Fund-New Zealand campaign to protect endangered dolphins.

The manager of Graph-Pak reckons that BJ Ball Paper’s purchase of a Pemco high precision folio-size sheeter type SHM 1650 Dual Rotary will help provide an edge for the paper supplier.

Winstone Pulp International has announced that its Blue Mountain Lumber timber mill, at Conical Hill near Tapanui, will today begin a process of significantly reducing its operations.

The manager of Graph-Pak reckons that BJ Ball Paper’s purchase of a Pemco high precision folio-size sheeter type SHM 1650 Dual Rotary will help provide an edge for the paper supplier.

As of the March 1, all Raleigh Paper’s Mohawk paper products including Superfine, Navajo, Options PC 100, Via, Ultrafelt, Mohawk Opaque and Strathmore are carbon neutral within the Mohawk production processes.

Wirakarya Sakti (WKS), a fibre supplier to Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has achieved sustainable forest management under the Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute (LEI) standard, which WKS claims makes it the owner of the largest certified plantation forest in Indonesia.

Amcor has announced the disposal of its Alphington paper mill site in Melbourne with the 16.5 hectare piece of land being put on the market as part a company plan to build a $400m recycled paper plant at its mill in Botany NSW.

Spicers Paper New Zealand has announced the release of Color Copy, an uncoated paper, made available for a variety of colour laser applications.

Wirakarya Sakti (WKS), a fibre supplier to Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has achieved sustainable forest management under the Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute (LEI) standard, which WKS claims makes it the owner of the largest certified plantation forest in Indonesia.

Excluding the mashed property sector PaperlinX is officially the cheapest stock on the S&P / ASX 200, as measured on a discount to asset value index. PaperlinX share price is currently 14 per cent to net tangible assets, with the price having plunged a whopping 82 per cent over the past 12 months.