At the Labelexpo 2009, in Brussels, visitors at the trade fair stand of the Swiss Cham Paper Group experienced live, through the glass doors of a constant climate chamber, how the new, environmentally-friendly backing paper, Silico Premium, stayed dimension-stable, even at different levels of humidity.
More than 2000 years separate the invention of handmade paper in China and today’s highly modern machines in a paper mill, hundreds of yards long, producing high-quality paper by the ton at speeds of close to 2000 metres per minute – up to one thousand tons per day. The basic idea of paper productio