Cham Paper Group Wins Innovation Prize for Specialty Papers
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The Cham Paper Group, Switzerland, has won the Zug (city in Switzerland) Innovation Prize 2012. The CHF 20,000 ($21,094) prize was awarded this past week to the company by the Mayor of Zug, Matthias Michel, to mark this year's Zug Innovation and Technology Day. The Jury selected Cham to receive the prize for its successful development of "a ground-breaking specialty paper, Barnamic.
Barnamic is a product range of innovative specialty papers that can be used on their own as packaging solutions for food products. Barnamic provides the protection required for packaged food, with barrier functions directly integrated into the paper, and can therefore replace complicated composites made out of various materials (such as plastic and aluminum). During the past several years, the Cham Paper Group has invested some CHF 20 million in curtain coating technology, allowing it to produce specialty paper products such as Barnamic.
Prize money awarded to the company will be used to purchase laboratory test equipment that the group requires to optimize and refine the Barnamic product range.
At its three locations in Switzerland and Italy, Cham Paper Group, established in 1657, develops and manufactures specialty papers for use in the consumer goods, industrial release, and digital imaging sectors. The consumer goods sector encompasses papers for flexible packaging and base papers for label printing in the food, non-food, tobacco, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries. In the industrial release sector, Cham supplies silicone-base papers for release liners used in graphical applications and for adhesive tapes and labels. The company also supplies base papers for process liners used in industrial casting and laminating process applications. Facestock papers for the self-adhesive industry round off the range. In addition to large-format inkjet papers for indoor and outdoor applications, the digital imaging sector also includes sublimation papers for digital textile printing.
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