Come and see us at London Packaging Week

Over ten years ago, Easyfairs launched Packaging Innovations London and Luxury Packaging London, creating a meeting place for packaging designers, technologists and suppliers in the capital. Changed in 2022 to London Packaging Week – This year it is being held at Excel in London and we have our very own stand.

The show is in a couple of weeks time on 11th and 12th September. It's a great show which brings a sharp focus on packaging development for the capital’s key luxury and FMCG markets.

As you can see from the below Packaging News headline, this year Paperisation (is that a word?) is a big theme - which suits us fine!

https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/events/london-packaging-week-2024

You may not realise it but Fenner Paper carries a huge range of papers and boards and we have the largest range of Eco and recycled papers than any other supplier in the UK! We would love to see you there on our stand, which is H78 and here is a sneak preview of the stand...

See you in a few weeks time!

https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/events/london-packaging-week-2024

Posted by Justin Hobson 28.08.24

Growing Through the Seasons

The "Growing through the Seasons" 2025 calendar, illustrated by Isla Middleton and written by Bryony Middleton, is a guide for gardeners and vegetable lovers. 

It features seasonal illustrations of fruits, vegetables, and flowers, along with practical growing tips for each month, including what to sow and harvest.

The calendars are produced on our PaperWise Natural 150gsm and 295gsm, which is manufactured from 100% agricultural waste - this is the stems and leaves left over the harvest and which is usually left in the field and burnt. You can read all about PaperWise HERE. As you can see from the images PaperWise is a natural shade and is completely unbleached and home compostable too ...a perfect choice for this calendar!

The calendar also includes a full growing chart at the back, providing an overview of the sowing and harvest schedule for the year. 

The calendars are 300mm square in size and are beautifully printed, offset litho by Ashley House Printing in Devon.

Although it's too late for this year, I believe there are plans for a 2025 version, so you can look on the website here: www.islamiddleton.co.uk

Posted by Justin Hobson 21.08.2024

Updated Inclusion range...

Up-Cycling is an increasing trend in the paper industry. This means using waste materials, destined to be thrown away, to create new and valuable objects. Here, we value up-cycling and strongly believe reprocessing raw materials is of great importance to us all, as it will be even more so in the future! Two great examples are grass paper – made from grass waste – and coffee paper – made from coffee waste.

We have an updated swatch showing the range:

Inclusion Coffee has a totally unique look and the obviously recycled character make it the perfect material for both packaging and printing applications that stand out. Upcycled coffee waste and 100% post-consumer recycled paper fibres give it a spectacular visual effect and an overtly recycled character. It has 5% residues from coffee processing added during the papermaking process. This content is comprised of coffee peel, which falls during coffee roasting and is sourced locally to the mill from facilities in Holland and Germany. 

Inclusion Coffee is now available in 100, 120 250 and 350gsm. It is made using 100% recycled, post consumer waste, with the addition of 5% residues from coffee processing, the resulting effect is really unusual as you can see from the image below (biro in shot for scale!) and every sheet is unique.

Inclusion Grass (below pic) contains 30% sun-dried grass and 70% post-consumer recycled paper fibres and is available in 120gsm text weight only...

The sun-dried grass is sourced from fallow land – which is left unplanted for a season resulting in a fast-growing raw material, protecting natural resources and the environment. The grass is turned into pellets which requires less energy, water and chemicals than the production of woodpulp. The grass pellets are produced in Germany ensuring short delivery to European paper mills, reducing CO2 emissions.

As you can see from the images above, the extraordinary use of these inclusions combined with 100% Recycled fibres ensure that every sheet of paper is truly unique - so be warned, the visual effect can and will vary from batch to batch!

Posted by Justin Hobson 12.08..2024

Jobs from the past - Number 177

Regular followers of this blog will know that my first post of every month is a "job from the past" so that I can show some of the really good work from years gone by - this project is from 2016.

Reach, Presentation, Service & Expertise 2016

Established by Albert Hill and Matt Gibberd in 2004,The Modern House is the UK’s foremost estate agency for houses and apartments of outstanding design and they have a passion for modern architecture. This is their company brochure (titled "The Art of Selling Architecture") which sets out to explain who they are, what they do and how they do it - Reach, Presentation, Service and Expertise.

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The cover is simply hot foil blocked in black foil and nothing on the back cover - it's wonderfully minimal. Size of the brochure is 280 x 230mm, portrait and is saddle stitched. It has an 8pp cover with 160mm wide flaps. The cover is printed and hot foil blocked Fabrique Moderne, Grey 200gsm which has a lovely textured 'watercolour' look and feel.

The text materials chosen are a combination of Omnia White 120gsm and Tree Free Bamboo Cream, 120gsm for the text (black only) There are 28pp in total with 12pp on the Omnia.

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As you can see from centre spread above, the images have reproduced brilliantly on the Omnia, with the combination of exterior and interior photography. The Modern House have used Omnia many times, so they know just how good the combination of tactile feel and excellent reproduction is. Detail of interior image below...

The correct selection of weights, means that the 28pp text flows beautifully

Black type looking good on the Tree Free Bamboo, Cream 120gsm - made using 75% bamboo and 25% cotton - that's 100% non tree fibres!

A lovely touch is the black wire used for the saddle stitching. Works beautifully with the hot foil blocking in black on the front cover...

The superb art direction and design is by Tom Watt at Field Projects. Print was by Push Print who went into administration in 2021.

https://www.themodernhouse.com/

http://field-projects.com/

Posted by Justin Hobson 05.08.2024