A Primer on Selecting Alternative Book Papers
Understanding your paper options in today’s market.
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Many publishers are feeling pressure from environmental groups to use recycled papers, which often are sold at a premium, while the post-consumer content still hovers at around 10 percent. However, characteristics for papers used by magazines, catalogs, newspapers and flyers have improved to a point that it is now a viable alternative. These lightweight text stocks have more post-consumer content (30 percent to 100 percent), and are brighter, whiter and, more importantly, price-competitive to virgin fiber stocks. But book stocks have not yet seen such advancements on a wide scale, except in groundwood stocks used by mass-market paperbacks.
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- Companies:
- American National Standards Institute
- ARJOBEX N.A.
- Bowater Incorporated
- Forest Stewardship Council
- Frye Publication Consulting
- HOP Industries Corp
- North Pacific Paper Corporation
- Oji-Yuka Synthetic Paper Co.
- Penguin Group (USA)
- PPG Industries
- Random House Inc.
- Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc.
- SustainPrint.com
- Transilwrap Co. Inc.
- Warner Books Group
- Places:
- Hailey, Idaho
- U.S.
Steven W. Frye
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