Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI)
CPI aims to unify the UK’s Paper-based Industries with a single purpose in promoting paper’s intrinsic value as a renewable and sustainable fibre-based material, enhancing its competitiveness through seeking to reduce legislative and regulatory impacts and in spreading best practice.
CPI represents the supply chain for paper, comprising recovered paper merchants, paper and board manufacturers and converters, corrugated packaging producers and makers of soft tissue papers.
CPI is working to promote:
- a positive image for paper
- secure energy supplies at competitive prices
- resource efficiency within a coherent waste strategy
- the benefits of packaging
- a sustainable UK Paper Industry
- manufacturing as a vital part of a balanced economy
- a competitive, level playing field for the UK’s Paper-based Industries
CPI represents 70 Member companies from an industry with an aggregate annual turnover of £6.5 billion, 25,000 direct and more than 100,000 indirect employees. Members range in size from large multi-national organisations with multiple sites in the UK, to single site SMEs.
Confederation of Paper Industries
1 Rivenhall Road
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN5 7BD
Telephone: +44 (0)1793 889600
British Wood Pulp Association (BWPA)
BWPA represents established UK and Continental European Agents selling Wood Pulp and other Vegetable Fibres into the UK.
BWPA was founded in 1896 following talks between members of companies involved in the wood pulp trade in the UK. It was proposed at this meeting that the English and Scottish interests involved in the sale of wood pulp to the British Paper Making Industry form an Association called the British Wood Pulp Association. It was mentioned that both the English and Scottish Paper Makers’ Associations had agreed to assist and that the Swedish, Norwegian and German Wood Pulp Associations had promised to co-operate.
The main objectives of the BWPA were set out:
- To further the interests of the Wood Pulp trade by friendly intercourse and the interchange of information and views.
- To establish relations with kindred Associations at home and abroad.
- To collect statistics relating to the wood pulp industry.
- To recommend and adopt a uniform contract note and system of drawing and testing samples.
- To combine action to bring pressure to bear on railway and dock companies, steamship owners, wharfingers, lightermen and others, in order to secure advantageous rates and charges.
- To assist in any litigation by which the general interests of wood pulp importers are in the opinion of the Committee affected.
British Paper Machinery Suppliers Association (BPMSA)
BPMSA is a division of Picon (Printing Industry Confederation). The division has approximately 20 member companies who come together to create a clear, independent voice for UK-based machinery suppliers.
The BPMSA is committed to working towards the achievement of an increasingly safe production environment in the mills by participating at all levels in the industry’s action plans for safety improvement and by playing a part in the development of effective and sensible standards.
Its regular publication “British Paper Machinery News” with a world-wide circulation to paper mills provides a cost-effective promotional route to market.
Picon Ltd
P.O. Box 300
Hitchin
Hertfordshire
SG4 8WJ
Telephone: +44 (0)1438 832742
British Printing Industries Federation – Cartons (BPIF Cartons)
BPIF Cartons is a trade association for the UK carton industry. It supports its members by organising regular networking events, representing the interests of the carton sector to governments and associated agencies, and proactively communicating cartonboard’s unique commercial and environmental advantages to a wide audience.
BPIF Cartons
2 Villiers Court
Meriden Business Park,
Copse Drive
Coventry
CV5 9RN
Telephone: +44 (0)1676 526 030
British Association of Paper Historians (BAPH)
BAPH is a national association which aims to bring together individuals, companies and institutions with a common interest in the following areas:
- paper in all its forms and diversity
- papermaking by hand and machine
- conservation
- mill and company histories
- papermakers, their families and communities
- machinery manufacture and development
- watermarks
The British Association of Paper Historians was founded in 1989 after the successful congress of the IPH (International Paper Historians) in Durham and the celebration of 500 years of papermaking in Britain in 1988.
The BAPH is a self-financing organisation and as such relies on the income generated from membership subscriptions and sales of its publications.