Paper
scrap-ex covers secondary paper markets in the following grades.
UK Waste Paper Grades:
Group 1: OCC (Old Corrugated
Containers)
Group 2: Mixed Papers
Group 3: New KLS (Corrugated
Board Trim)
Group 4: Mixed Newspapers & Magazines
Group 5:
Sorted Office Waste
Group 6: Best White No.1
Group 7: Best
White No.2
Group 8: Coloured Letter
Group 9: Tear White
Shavings
Group 10: Printed White Wet-Strength Wood-free Papers
Specification
and detail of European grading:
Ordinary Grades
- Supermarket corrugated paper and board
- Old corrugated containers
- Unsold magazines
- Telephone books
- Mixed newspapers and magazines
- Mixed newspapers and magazines 1
- Mixed newspapers and magazines 2
- Sorted graphic paper
- Mixed Paper and board, unsorted but unusable materials removed
- Mixed Papers and boards (sorted)
- Grey board
Medium Grades
- Newspapers
- Unsold newspapers
- Unsold newspapers, no flexo-graphic printing allowed
- Lightly printed white shavings
- Heavily printed white shavings
- Heavily printed white shavings with glue
- Sorted office paper
- Coloured letters
- Bleached wood free PE-coated board
- Other PE-coated board
- Mechanical Pulp based computer print-out
- White wood free books
- Coloured wood free magazines
- Carbonless copy paper
High Grades
- Mixed lightly coloured printer shavings
- Mixed lightly coloured wood free printer shavings
- Wood-free binders
- White wood free letters
- White business forms
- White wood-free computer print-out
- Printed bleached sulphate board
- Tear White shavings
- Lightly printed bleached
- Sulphate board
- Multi-printing
- White heavily printed
- Multiply board
- White lightly printed
- White unprinted multiply board
- White newsprint
- White mechanical pulp-based coated and uncoated paper
- White mechanical pulp-based containing coated paper
- White wood-free coated paper, without glue
- White shavings
- White wood-ree shavings
- Unprinted bleached
Kraft Grades
- New shavings of corrugated board
- Used corrugated
- Kraft 1
- Kraft 2
- Used kraft
- New kraft
- New carrier kraft
- Used kraft sacks
- Unused kraft sacks with poly-coated papers
Special
Grades
- Wrapper kraft
- Wet labels
- Unprinted white wet-strength
- Wood-free papers
- Printed white wet-strength wood-free papers
- Mixed recovered paper and board
- Mixed packaging
- Liquid board packaging
European Standard Paper Specification
Download European List of
Standard Grades of Recoverand Board
Download Introduction to PAS 105
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