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  • Chairman Mark Cropper

    01Chairman Mark Cropper

  • Chest where wood pulp and dyes are mixed together

    02Chest where wood pulp and dyes are mixed together

  • Paper guillotine

    03Paper guillotine

  • Worker checks the furnish (wet pulp) from the blending chamber

    04Worker checks the furnish (wet pulp) from the blending chamber

  • Thousands of different coloured rolls of paper

    05Thousands of different coloured rolls of paper

  • Products that use James Cropper paper

    06Products that use James Cropper paper

  • The stages

    071. Get the colour right

  • The stages

    082. All in the blend

  • The stages

    093. Down to the wire

  • The stages

    104. Keeping dry

  • The stages

    115. On a roll

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Milling about— Global

Preface

With a rapidly shifting media landscape and declines in newspaper sales, it might seem logical to expect paper mills to be struggling. Not so in the case of northern England’s James Cropper, whose unique colours and specialist papers have ensured healthy profits.

Mark Cropper, Paper mill

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