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The Invercote product range invites you to explore a world of creative freedom, by offering a unique combination of premium quality, aesthetics and sustainability performance. Its excellent printability, optimal strength, and durability enable design opportunities for a wide range of solutions and brand experiences. Invercote doesn’t crack on folds, and its enhanced stiffness and tear resistance make it an exceptional product for packaging, covers, tags, and much more. Made from renewable raw materials, Invercote allows you to achieve optimum results with a low climate impact.
Product portfolio
Invercote offers a wide range of different board types and grammages:
- Invercote G: Features a triple-coated print side and a single coating on the reverse, making it suitable for packaging applications requiring excellent printability.
- Invercote Creato: With its fully coated two sides and exceptional print quality, it opens up a world of creative possibilities. Its smooth surface is designed to faithfully reproduce the most sophisticated printed images to meet all your packaging expectations.
- Invercote Duo: Made by back-to-back lamination of Invercote for high grammage requirements. It is especially suitable for various display purposes and types of rigid, exclusive packaging.
Premium characteristics
Invercote products are designed with optimum strength and convertibility to ensure the protection of packaged products. Their balanced whiteness allows for consistent and faithful colour reproduction, and gives you just the right light stability required to avoid fading, enabling a lasting brand experience. Invercote’s surface characteristics and dimensional properties ensure superior printability and sophisticated results. It can be bent, creased and folded several thousand times without breaking. The secret lies in its tensile strength, tearing resistance, delamination strength and compression strength.
Superior design opportunities
With Invercote, the only limit for design is your imagination. Shape it, bend it and cut it to fit the purpose of your packaging solution. Deep and narrow creases can be achieved in all grain directions, whether straight or curved. Special finishing techniques such as foiling and embossing are painless. Invercote's creative possibilities, combined with its suitability for offset and digital printing presses, make it the optimal paperboard for a wide range of packaging solutions that deliver premium results on both function and shelf appearance.
Sustainability
Invercote is a renewable paperboard made from leftover wood parts. Only fresh fibres are used in the production, and the entire product portfolio is fully recyclable. The fibres come from sustainably managed forests in Sweden, which have been cared for by the Holmen Group for more than 300 years, and they are certified for their sustainable management. All trees harvested are replanted, and upholding biodiversity is an absolute priority. Invercote also has a low climate impact thanks to the use of bio- and hydropower energy at the mill in Iggesund, Sweden.
Invercote®, for digital printing
The Invercote range is increasingly being adopted for 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 greater benefit lies in the no-cracking when folded.
Invercote G and Creato
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.
See the video below showing how Invercote G makes booklets that are both rigid and resilient. Printed on a Xerox Versant press and finished with an in-line booklet maker.
With no cracking, even on dark covers, your applications remain flawless.
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 make beverage packaging stand out even more.
Protection and durability
Eliminate the risk of tearing and cracking. Strength, stiffness and folding endurance are extremely important characteristics for packaging. Additionally, its 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 further enhance the range and increase opportunity, we also offer Invercote Duo and Metalprint, each with unique qualities for enhanced creative packaging design.
Invercote Duo is made from two sheets of Invercote G laminated together; either back-to-back to give balanced, full coated surfaces or back-to-front providing one side with a tactile, uncoated differentiation. Duo perfroms exceptionally well for packaging of wines and spirits, with a grammage range from 450gsm / 520mic to 770gsm / 1010 mic.
Metalprint is ideal for adding luxury to packaging design and enhancing shelf impact. Made from high quality paperboard with a metalised PET laminate on one side, the material has a shiny, reflective appearance for sublime print effect!
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, it 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, Holmen are endorsed by some global indexes that take a more holistic look at sustainability across the company, including EcoVadis, CDP and Sedex.
