Thursday, January 9, 2025
COLOURFORM™: JAMES CROPPER’s innovation in eco-designed molded fiber packaging
Introduce your company in a few words …
James Cropper is a prestige paper and fibre innovator based in the English Lake District. We supply distinct, custom-made paper products to many of the world’s leading luxury brands and designers, amidst a land landscape classified as a UNESCO world heritage site.
- COLOURFORM™ is our eco-designed, moulded fibre packaging innovation. An entirely bespoke solution delivered direct to luxury brands putting their story centre stage. With expertise in design, colour, fibre and finishing, the options are limitless.
- Our Tailor Made bespoke service is aimed at brand owners, designers and converters looking to create a completely custom paper for their particular project.
What will be your 2022 must-have innovation on your stand?
Colourform, the makers of Ruinart’s multi-award winning Second-skin has produced beautiful new packaging for fragrance and cosmetics partners including Dries van Noten. Stunning clean lines and delicate simplicity, the ground-breaking thermo-formed fibre solution is mono-material. Fully recyclable with paper and made with 100% renewable energy it is a truly sustainable market disruptor.
(Further luxury brand launches to be announced in 2022).
Wainwright Colours from Nature is the latest innovation from James Cropper Paper to create value from waste.
This new collection of papers for packaging, made with plant-based dyes, marks the first application of natural dyes in modern papermaking. It is also certified to the FSC® 100% recycled label, recognising the importance of recycling in the paper lifecycle.
Question 3: How this solution will meet the needs of brands ?
Colourform offers sustainable innovation with bespoke packaging direct to luxury brands.
- Full service solution made from moulded fibre delivering outstanding results.
- Limitless colour, texture, precision embossing and unique surface effects.
- Mould shape, style and surface with embellishments such as print, foiling and barrier coating.
- Fully recyclable.
- 100% renewable energy allocated to all production including power from on-site solar and hydro.
The Wainwright Colours from Nature collection offers a bleed-free and rub resistant paper with lightfastness comparable to that achieved with industry standard synthetic dyes.
- Differing dye additions, derived from non-edible Rosemary waste, create two colours: Limestone and Herdwick Brown.
- The papers in the collection are inherently biodegradable. However, recycling is always recommended so that the paper has another useful life.