Afripaper Products
Books in Durban

Afripaper Products Pty Ltd is a speciality paper distributor & supplier of cover materials for book binding, stationery & speciality packaging in South Africa.

Combined with our leading partners in Europe and India, BN International, Eska, Sef, Favini and Garnett, we have successfully launched a new range of products to keep the South African market up to date with global colour trends, ideas and innovations. With direct excess to the mill, we in a position to provide you with world leading technical support for the various mills. Afripaper presents Balacron, a versatile covermaterial, which lends itself perfectly to various processing methods, both fully automatic and manually. Balacron is a vinyl-coated paper, which provides excellent results with foil blocking, blind embossing and screen printing. Balacron is specifically suitable for books, photo albums, menus, diaries, ring binders, luxury packaging and so on. Balathane is a durable vinyl-coated covermaterial on a dyed backing paper base. This material provides the perfect result in foil blocking, blind embossing and screen printing. Balathane is the ideal covermaterial when durability is of the essence, for instance with books, photo albums, menus, diaries and so on. Balatex is a textile covermaterial, in various qualities which each have their own special characteristics and applications. Whether processed fully automatic, semi-automatic or manually, Balatex gives the perfect result in foil blocking, blind embossing and screen printing. Our boards have gained wide spread credibility in the manufacturing industry and is one of the key products in helping the completion of mainline items. Coated art papers are divided into two basic categories, woodfree and part mechanical. These divisions relate to the paper makeing process. Within these categories, there are further divisions which relate to the amount of coating on the base paper. The better the coating the better the printability of the sheet.