Invercote Graphical Board - Beyond expectations!
Invercote graphical boards are carefully designed to give you the optimum solutions for packaging and graphical applications. They offer outstanding aesthetic print quality, to faithfully reproduce the most sophisticated printed images. Structurally, their multi-layer construction allows ultimate bulk, stiffness and convertibility for you packaging and graphical needs. Using 100% virgin fibres assures high whiteness plus stability of shade for to luxury retail packaging. Invercote comes in single and two side coated grades, plus the high grammage offering through laminated boards.
- Download brand chart
Choice
Invercote gives a wide choice of board types. Invercote G, with its two contrasting sides, fully coated front and lightly coated reverse, gives a nice combination of the smooth outer and natural tactile inner. Invercote Creato offers outstanding aesthetic printing properties on equal, fully coated sides. The smooth surface is tailored to faithfully reproduce the most sophisticated printed images for your packaging and graphical needs. Invercote Albato, with ultimate print quality and elevated gloss, is designed for luxury packaging and graphical applications where an exceptional aesthetic result is desired. For high grammage requirements, Invercote Duo is made by back-to-back pasting of Invercote G, the resultant board especially suitable for display purposes and packaging of heavy or fragile goods.
Optimum strength and convertibility
Invercote products are designed with optimum strength and convertibility. Ensuring protection of packaged products and robust, high quality presentation and flatness of graphical items. Foldability of boxes or covers is excellent, with no cracking to preserve the quality of your designs
Sustainability
Sustainability is at the heart of Invercote materials. Fibre comes from well managed forests owned by the Iggesund family, and products are manufactured with maximum recyclability and energy recovery. Invercote materials are available with FSC or PEFC accreditations.
Conventional or Digital
Invercote materials are naturally suitable for conventional printing, but also work well in many digital printing presses on the market today.
Invercote, Elevate Beverage & Luxury Packaging
Choosing the right paperboard can enhance the premium character of brands on the shelf. The Invercote range has some outstanding properties and excellent options to achieve this.
Shelf appeal
Having a board with the right whiteness level, to faithfully reproduce the colours and tones of your artworks is critical. It’s equally important that the shade of the board is maintained - exposure to the sun and UV light can cause packaging to fade. Invercote has a good and stable whiteness, helped by fresh wood free fibres and just a modest amount of OBA. Furthermore, Invercote products work extremely well with finishing techniques to makes beverage packaging stand out even more.
Protection & durability
Eliminate the risk of tearing and cracking. Strength, stiffness and folding endurance are extremely important characteristics for packaging. Additionally, it’s superior strength and durability compared to higher grammages of other brands, gives cost savings and reduced transportation costs. Whilst still ensuring the safety and protection of bottles and products inside.
Duo and MetalPrint options
To increase the grammage levels and subsequent strength and rigidity, Invercote Duo is made by pasting together 2 Invercote G sheets, either back to back to give balanced fully coated surfaces, or back to front to give one side with a tactile, uncoated differentiation. Duo is ideal for wines and Spirits packaging, with a grammage range from 450g to 770g.
If you need a reflective, mirror effect to increase your brand’s shelf impact then MetalPrint is perfect. It uses a high quality paperboard with a metalized PET laminated on the print side.
Sustainability
With climate change and environmental concerns leading the agenda, both consumers and brands are on the lookout for more sustainable choices. When it comes to packaging, paperboard has an obvious advantage over fossil-based packaging: it’s a renewable material made from wood., easily recyclable and if it does end up in nature, decomposes quickly.
Certificates and standards are a positive way to set common benchmarks, and can also be helpful in marketing your products. Endorsements of Invercote’s fibre wood source include FSC® or PEFC™ . ISO certificates include 9001, 14001, ISO 45001 and 50001. In addition to the above, Iggesund are endorsed by some global indexes that take a more holistic look at sustainability across the company, including EcoVadis and Achilles.
Invercote for digital printing
The Invercote range is becoming evermore adopted into digital printing applications.
Whether for short run packaging, the photo-gifting market (calendars, photobooks, greetings cards) or general graphical applications (book covers, Menus, Invites or Tags) the properties and performance of Invercote are well appreciated by digital printers.
Invercote is certified for many HP indigo presses, giving excellent results without any pre-treatment requirements. Similarly, the range performs very well on most production dry toner presses.
Due to Invercote’s multi-layer construction, it has very high bulk and stiffness, so a lower grammage can often be chosen compared to a standard coated paper. An even great benefit lies in the no-cracking when folded. Your designs on digital packaging are perfectly replicated, even through corners. Book Covers, greeting cards or menus produced on Invercote will continue to look great, even after multiple openings. Tags & tickets have amazing bulk, strength, stiffness!
At Antalis, we have a range of Invercote G (1-side coated) and Creato (2-side coated) available in precision, mill cut digital formats, to ensure perfect size, squareness and edge quality.
Try for yourself!
