James Cropper is a thriving example of how to add real value to paper. This family-owned speciality paper business has built a global reputation for bespoke papers of the highest calibre and is a world leader in coloured grades. It was also Sodra's customer of choice to put value chain cooperation into practice by trialling its new innovation in pulp. Think of the world's major paper producers and the UK is no longer one mat springs immediately to mind. Many of its once well-known names have been consigned to papermaking history, unable to justify their existence in an increasingly competitive global market. But tucked away in a picturesque part of the Lake District, is one name which is bucking that trend. James Cropper has been making paper since 1845. Now under the leadership of Mark Cropper, the sixth generation of the Cropper family, this speciality paper mill recognized that its future lay in value not volume in the 1980s. It set upon a strategy of bespoke premium papermaking, offering innovation, service and flexibility, and reinvented itself as one of the world's leaders in uncoated colored papers.
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