Royal Linen offers an extraordinary paper with great eco-benefits

We're happy to have a huge offering of Wausau Paper's Royal Linen line of paper and envelopes. I think this is one of the best values in paper. Royal Linen, as the name implies, has a really beautiful linen pattern on the surface. This is something you normally have to pay a lot for in other premium papers.



Royal Linen is a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper. As if that's not enough the paper also uses 30% post consumer waste. I've written in past blogs about the benefits of recycled paper. Briefly, less land fill used, less energy used, less water used. As well I've talked about the importance of FSC paper. While FSC is important because it sets and monitors standards for FSC forests, ensuring the forests with the FSC certification are responsibily managed to best benefit the environment and the people living in the area of the forest. One of the unspoken benefits is the fact the FSC helps to keep well managed forest profitable. The importance of a profitable forest is that it remains forest and is less likely to fall victim to development. Nothing kills a forest faster than when it becomes a golf course or a huge housing development.

Its important to support manufacturers that make an honest effort to lessen their environmental impact. The offering of Royal Linen does exactly that and uses less natural resources and protects well managed forests through its use of FSC fiber. Not only that, but its a grea paper that looks fantastic and performs well on press and in desktop applications.

Finch Paper forest sale

As is well known by now, and written about here, Finch Paper recently sold an amazing piece of property located in the Adirondack Park in upper New York state. The sale of what was previously the largest piece of privately owned property by Finch to the Nature Conservancy will result in the preservation of this 161,000 acre property.

I have just returned from a visit to the Adirondacks last week. During my visit to New York state I dropped in to see our friends at Finch Paper and to touch base on the progress of the land sale. Such a huge sale, valued at $110 million, requires creative thinking to make the numbers come together. The Nature Conservancy is resourceful and has access to large sums of money. Even for this great organization the price tag and the 6 weeks it took to put this together is an amazing feat of creative thinking.

One important part of this sale is that Finch Paper will retain logging rights to the property and help the Nature Conservancy support this land with fees it will pay for the lumber harvested from the property. The forest will remain a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified forest and provide generations of responsibly managed timber for paper making.