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RAW MATERIAL COLLECTION
What can be used instead of trees & wood pulp to make paper? Has to be sustainable & repurposed! No forests, protecting habitat & fauna... Here’s our thinking... Leftover plants and by-product from our farm suppliers. There's so much reclaimable product from the agricultural farming industry and fast growing plants available, so instead of throwing all this away (not friendly), we use it all to make 'I AM NOT PAPER' How good is that?. Pretty good, naturally.
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SEPARATING & STRIPPING
To begin the process, the raw materials are mixed together & passed through a stripper (not that kind Mr) where any bad stuff is removed. Don’t worry this excess is used as biofuel or soil fertiliser. Accepted 'I AM NOT PAPER' Plantpulp material is then dried & stored in huge bins ready for the next process.
PULPING TECH
It’s bake time! 'I AM NOT PAPER' Plantpulp chips are then heat pressure-cooked in a huge digester, with a mixture of water and ‘secret herbs n’ spices’. Minus the bleach or any other unnecessary nasties! The Plantpulp is turned into slush in the beater, ready to be tweaked according to whatever application it is needed for. FYI after the vigorous heat treatment & production process there is no live matter or protein active. Food & allergens safe (FDA approved).
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REFINEMENT
This is where the cellulose fibers pass through a refining & engineering process which is vital in the art of 'I AM NOT PAPER' making. Before refining, the fibers are badass! are stiff, inconsistent, inflexible & form few bonds. Here we open up & decluster the Plantpulp fibers making the ends divide (fibrillation). Boring tech stuff... In this state, the fibers are pliable and have a greater surface area, which significantly improves the bonding and performance we need down the track when we make our products.
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ROLLING
Netflix, munchies, &'... Um almost done! The Plantpulp fibers travel down the screen, water is drained away & reused. The resulting crude 'I AM NOT PAPER' web is squeezed between large rollers to remove most of the remaining water and ensure smoothness & uniform thickness. The semi-dry web is then run through heated dryer rollers to remove the remaining water. The finished 'I AM NOT PAPER' is then re-rolled into large rolls with choices of different function grades & thicknesses (gsm). Once 'I AM NOT PAPER' sheets are fully dried, they are cut into sheets or kept in rolls ready for printing & making products. Where's the lazy ass design team?
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DESIGN & RND
Now we have 'I AM NOT PAPER' Ready to Rock, we Rethink, Reconsider, Replace, Redesign, Reimagine, Rejuvenate, Reduce, and then Repeat, until we get it right. We examine every possible way we can to make product and packaging better, with a bias towards the best environmental outcome. We do this through industrial design, engineering, in-house prototyping and testing, graphic design, mini trials and test production.
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PRINTING & CONVERSION
Colour, colour! 'I AM NOT PAPER' looks and feels so good raw/unprinted ofc! but when we need to print hero brands, cool copy, artwork that's pretty, bold, and wow, we do it using our (PINKS) plant-veggie and water-based inks only, which of course, are mates with mother nature. Once printed, we roll up our sleeves, power up the machines for cutting, stamping, folding, forming, gluing, coating, & transform 'I AM NOT PAPER' into pretty much any Not Paper finished products.
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QC
Job not done yet. Here, the quality control geeks inspect the finished 'I AM NOT PAPER' printed and converted products. No jokes here. It has to be just right before we release it.
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MOVEMENT
Once we reduce shipping footprints, out it goes! Our product is packed, loaded & shipped to our warehouses then direct to your door!
'I AM NOT PAPER' products will come in an outer box printed with a little tree with a heart in it. You got it...