Fuji Xerox chops April paper

Fuji Xerox is one of April’s big two cut sheet paper distributors in this country, Officeworks being the other. Fuji Xerox blacklisted cut sheet paper from APP in 2004.  APP is currently battling the attempts of Greenpeace to have its paper products banned here. Virtually all major Australian paper merchants supply APP stock to the commercial print industry.

While much paper sourced from Asia is currently under sustained attack from the environmental lobby,  the attack also includes paper sourced from native Australian forests, including that supplied to Australian Paper to make its top selling Reflex brand.

Paper manufacturers look to external accreditation agencies such as FSC to validate the environmental credentials of their papers, however there is a growing concern in the paper industry that bodies such as FSC, which have no direct connection to or interest in print, and which some claim are linked to anti-paper groups such as the WWF, are wielding too much influence.

One industry insider told Australian Printer, “The print industry has been brilliant at paying FSC for the priviledge of promoting them, and giving them far too much power, how has that happened it’s a business masterstroke on the part of FSC, and is certainly not in the best interests of print.”

Analysts see the growing influence of FSC as akin to that of Adobe, who some claim virtually hold the print industry to ransom by virtue of their almost total dominance of the market, and for whom print is low on its list of priorities.

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