At the Nuit du Papier event held in Paris on April 4, 2024, Pap Argus magazine presented its Pap'Awards for innovation, initiative and excellence. The Fedrigoni Group won the circularity award for its Futura paper.
The Futura range of papers is based on the recovery of textile waste from the Albini brand, one of the Group's customers. It comes in two grammages, 115 and 300 gr, and meets the technical requirements of printing and packaging.
Paper made through upcycling
"This second life project allows us to reduce the amount of virgin pulp in production by recovering textile by-products destined for disposal, while optimizing the energy and emissions of each production process."explains Celine Bertuzzi, Marketing Director Fedrigoni Special Papers.
Major investments
Fedrigoni has invested heavily in research and development in order to succeed in its challenge and achieve high technical and aesthetic properties.
The process begins with the sorting of off-cuts, either from the weaving process or from the sampling and quality control department, which are frayed and then dusted. The cotton is then added by Fedrigoni to the cellulose mixture to obtain a cardboard used to create various communication supports. The recovery of mercerized cotton waste, which is very difficult to process with traditional industrial equipment, required a great deal of innovation to produce a rigid tissue paper that is both soft and durable, says the manufacturer.
