Paper Appreciation Course – June 2026

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October 10, 2025

The next Paper Appreciation Course will take place at The Apsley Paper Trail, Frogmore Paper Mill, Fourdrinier Way, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP3 9RY on Tuesday 23rd June 2026 (PAC26A).

This ‘Paper Appreciation Course’ is unique in that it focuses on the benefits that paper and its attributes bring to the end-uses. So whilst they discuss the many elements of paper production, at each stage they describe what that part of the process does for the paper, for example, formation, opacity, thickness, stiffness, and so on. It is particularly aimed at relatively new starters in the paper merchanting industry and paper buyers and specifiers in the print industry.

The Course Lecturer will again be Don Turner and the course is run in partnership with The Paper Industry Charitable Trust (PICT).

As always, this course is limited to 12 delegates to ensure a quality learning experience and is ideally suited for relatively new starters in either industry.

This is a rare opportunity to see a working papermaking machine in the UK.

They teach papermaking from the consumers’ angle. The key objective of the course is not to produce budding papermakers, but for the delegates to better understand the attributes of the various grades of paper and what they bring to the end products. This one-day course is ideal for employees who would not normally have the chance to visit a fully working paper mill but work within the paper merchanting, printing or associated industries.

Some of the testimonials recently received for the course:

“It was very good to learn about paper from the environmental aspect”
“This course gave me a different view on the paper I deal with into how it was made and the role it is destined for.”
“This course will help me focus more on the end-users requirements – customer first!”
“The tour of the mill was great – very engaging”
“Really enjoyed the visit and would gladly come back!”