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eTEC Air-R Bubble Board Black Core
from Premier
Premier has announced the launch of eTEC Air-R Bubble Board Black Core, a PVC free wide format offering now available in the UK and Ireland.
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Made in Europe and featuring a black polypropylene core containing up to 80% recycled content by weight, it includes a smooth, bright white virgin polypropylene surfaces on both sides, ensuring vibrant and accurate prints. The addition of a black core enhances opacity, eliminating show through.
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Designed for UV, latex, and screen printing, eTEC Air-R Bubble Board Black Core is corona treated, ensuring excellent ink adhesion and print quality. The board is highly versatile, compatible with flatbed cutting (drag knife), die cutting (hot and cold), guillotining, hot welding, folding, and even laser cutting.
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Additionally, it is fully recyclable and qualifies for disposal through the FESPA Waste Management Scheme. It can also be carbon captured through Premier’s sustainability scheme in partnership with the Woodland Trust.
Premier is one of the UK’s leading independent paper and board suppliers, with a fantastic environmental pedigree. Also well known for its proactive customer service, as well as a broad range of products, Premier is able answer the needs of today’s graphic arts industry whether that is an everyday paper or something special for a creative project.
Through its specialist divisions and extensive nationwide branch network which covers the UK, Premier offers the best in terms of service, and a high level of guidance and advice, specifically tailored to each market sector, backed by that superb environmental ethos.
Its comprehensive portfolio of products comprises office papers, digital papers, creative papers, envelopes, reels, packaging, security, carbonless, coloured, paperboards, self-adhesives and labels, to name just a few.
Premier Paper Group
Head Office,
Midpoint Park,
Kingsbury Road,
Minworth,
Birmingham, B76 1AF
0121 313 1115
www.paper.co.uk
Munken Agenda from Arctic Paper
Munken Agenda is a collaboration between the paper manufacturer Arctic Paper and creative institutions and design schools in Europe. The 2025 Agenda, titled ‘Calendar as You Like It’, was designed by two students from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany, and its playful design and colours are a delightful nod to the 1990s.
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The next edition of the Munken Agenda is now being launched. The agenda is part of a collaboration that has spanned nearly 20 years between Arctic Paper and creative institutions and design schools across Europe. The aim is to support future designers and art directors, giving them insight into the world of paper and its potential. The company has further plans for exciting collaborations with young creators in the near future.
Arctic Paper has long been known for its beautiful papers and strong environmental ethic. It not only believes in offering great products, but that it is essential that the production of these has as little impact as possible on the environment.
Most of its paper qualities are available as FSC and PEFC certified, but its green ethos is about more than certification. The company continually assesses and fine tunes its production processes to ensure that they work to the highest environmental levels.
The company’s portfolio consists of a range of fine papers including the Munken brand. Intended for printers, publishers, designers and companies with high demands on quality, results and total solutions, its fine papers are suitable for all areas of application including book production, advertising and direct mail, reports and high end catalogues.
Arctic Paper UK
8 St Thomas Street
London SE1 9RR
01883 331800
info-uk@arcticpaper.com
www.arcticpaper.com
Index from Foilco
To inspire foil users, Foilco offers a swatch book called Index, the first fully customisable foil swatch book for the design and print industry.
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The swatch, which includes over 200 different foil colours patterns and finishes, has been designed in a loose leaf format, to make updating it easier and less impactful on the environment.
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Real thought has been given to making the customer journey as easy as possible, whilst providing all the information needed. Each individual card contains a solid block of foil at the top, an illustration of the foil in various sizes of font type, details of the name, finish and colour of the foil, as well as four tear-off foil chip samples. Additionally, the reverse of each card has a unique QR code linking the customer back to Foilco’s website, where the full product details for that specific foil can be found.
Foilco has an enviable reputation as a flexible, approachable, friendly, company that always goes the extra mile to ensure satisfaction for customers. It is home to the world's widest portfolio of striking and beautiful stamping foil shades and finishes.
The company, was set up in 1987 and has been supplying stamping foils to the print industry ever since.
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Stamping foil creates the brightest metallic finish in printing. Its main applications are on whiskey labels, perfume bottles, book covers, greeting cards, luxury shopping bags and even wheelie bins. It is used by everyone, everyday but most people wouldn’t even realise what it is.
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Foilco has distributors strategically located in seven countries around the world and ships goods from the North West site to over 1850 businesses and printers globally, on a daily basis.
Harris & Bruno ZRX from CyanX
The groundbreaking Harris & Bruno ZRX Digital Embellishment press offers flood coating, digital spot coating, tactile raised coatings, and foiling, all in one single pass – thus vastly removing the complexity of embellishing print – the device was a standout at the exhibition, garnering significant attention for its advanced capabilities in this value added sphere.
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The ZRX offers unparalleled quality and efficiency for a wide range of printing applications. Its ability to digitally embellish uncoated media safely, without the need for lamination, and the ability to create raised matte tactile effect is a game changer. Whilst traditional embellishment methods can take hours or even days to finish, the ZRX brings this down to minutes, saving time and cost. Added to this, the device also offers automated systems for set up and wash up – again saving time.
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The ZRX is available in the UK through CyanX.​
CyanX is a major supplier of print equipment and pressroom consumables, but it also promises high levels of service, not least through its maintenance offer. Having a partner that can not only help to provide the right solutions at time of investment, but also provide service and maintenance that helps to keep your production processes flowing, means that you can have confidence to simply get on with what you do best.
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The company backs its products with a team of trained technicians who provide a national service and support network for customers. Service contracts are offered on either a six month or annual basis, and bespoke schedules can be arranged to suit production requirements.
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With a 24 hour a day, seven days a week service department contactable for telephone support, most customer issues can be solved remotely, albeit in emergency mode, until an engineer can attend the site, thus ensuring that downtime is kept to a minimum.
CyanX
Unit 1 South View Business Park
Ghyll Road
Guiseley
Leeds
West Yorkshire, LS20 9LT
+44 (0) 33 33 21 85 21
sales@cyanx.co.uk
www.cyanx.co.uk
