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New Drytac Grade now Available from Premier

Drytac Polar Frost Air is an incredibly versatile high-quality, translucent polymeric film, that offers exceptional clarity and

Premier Enhances Sustainability Efforts with Solar Panel Installation Across UK Branches

January 2025 – Premier, one of the UK’s leading distributors of paper and materials, has announced the

Rooted in Action: Premier and Woodland Trust Unite to Host Tree Planting Event at Smithills Estate

January 2025 – On the 22 January 2025, Premier, the founder of the Carbon Capture® programme, partnered

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Carbon Capture hits the Million Pound Milestone

November 2019

“Tall oaks from little acorns grow.” What started off in 2008 as a simple idea to give businesses the choice to mitigate the CO2 emissions from the paper that they buy has truly blossomed into something very special and Carbon Capture is now the market leading environmental initiative. Premier Paper offer their customers and their […]

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Premier Paper and Customers Plant 13,000 Trees in Derbyshire

November 2019

Thursday 21st November 2019 and it’s a cold morning in the heart of the picturesque Derbyshire countryside – the perfect day to plant some trees. Premier Paper invited 300 of their Carbon Capture customers and their customer’s clients to take part in their annual tree planting day with the Woodland Trust in Derbyshire. Joined by […]

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A Premier Start to 2019 for Carbon Capture – 1100 Trees Planted in March

March 2019

It’s nine o’clock, Thursday 14th March 2019. The sun is shining high in an almost perfectly clear blue sky – the ideal weather to team up with 30 customers and the Woodland Trust to plant trees in the beautiful Scottish countryside; the first of many tree planting days planned for 2019.   Said to have […]

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Premier to plant 3,000 trees, adding to the UK’s largest continuous new native woodland

October 2018

October 2015 – The Premier Paper Group, the UK’s largest independent paper merchant with a nationwide network of regional stock holding branches, has announced that it is planning another mega day of tree planting action this year, where it is looking to plant some 3,000 trees at a site in rural Hertfordshire. Already this year customers […]

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Premier Paper helps develop ancient woodland by planting 800 trees

March 2018

March 2018 – As part of their Carbon Capture programme, Premier Paper recently embarked on a tree planting day, inviting customers to come along and help tidy, clear and plant a variety of trees and hedgerow. Working alongside the Woodland Trust, the UK’s largest woodland conservation charity, the event took place at Pullabrook Woods in Bovey […]

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PCL Range Template Licence

February 2018

Template Licence Updated: 25th September 2018 This licence (“Licence”) contains rights and restrictions associated with use of the accompanying templates, label data or code (the “Templates”). Read the Licence carefully before utilizing the templates or label data. By using the Templates you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this licence. Limited […]

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3,000 New Trees Planted at Heartwood Forest

November 2017

November 2017 – It’s Thursday 27th November 2017, 9:30am and the temperature is just touching 3˚C; it’s the morning after an incredibly stormy night. For most people today is ‘business as usual’, but that’s not the case for 150 of Premier’s customers and guests as they journey from across the country to the jewel, that is Heartwood […]

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Premier plants a further 1,000 trees, to boost woodland growth and combat tree disease

March 2017

March 2017 – The Premier Paper Group, the UK’s largest independent paper merchant, has held the latest of its successful tree planting action days on 23rd March in conjunction with the Woodland Trust, with some 1,000 new sapling trees planted by customers and staff at the Pullabrook Wood in the Bovey Valley National Nature Reserve. Braving torrential […]

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Premier plants a further 5,000 trees, as it continues to help new woodland growth

December 2016

December 2016 – The Premier Paper Group, the UK’s largest independent paper merchant, has held the latest of its successful tree planting action days, where some 5,000 new sapling trees were planted by customers, staff and students at the Woodland Trust-owned Heartwood Forest in Hertfordshire. The 5,000 saplings represented 1,000 trees planted for each year of […]

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Premier plants over 800 trees, helping to grow and regenerate forest woodland

April 2016

April 2016 – Environmentally conscious business Premier Paper teamed up with over 30 of its customers and staff, who, together with Woodland Trust Scotland, helped to plant over 800 trees at North Wood, a woodland site just outside Livingston which is looking to increase its green space environment. The trees, each of which were about 2 […]

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