Australian Made Office Paper
The Reflex brand of office papers is proudly Australian Made at our Maryvale Mill located in Victoria’s LaTrobe Valley.
The Maryvale Paper Mill is one of Australia’s largest integrated pulp and paper making operations and dates back to 1937 when it was first established. A cycle of continuous capital investment since that time has ensured that it remains a state of the art integrated paper making facility. The latest of these investments has been the Pulp Mill Upgrade.
Australian Paper completed this major upgrade of the Maryvale Mill in December 2008 in response to global paper trends and changing consumer expectations of office paper products. With an investment of $350 million, the upgrade has expanded the Mill’s production of bleached pulp capacity by 22% and also delivered a range of quality, environmental, safety and health benefits.
The upgrade included the reconstruction of the wood yard to support the projected increase volumes of wood. The rebuilt bleach plant is now producing ECF (Elementally Chlorine Free) Pulp, and has delivered significant improvements in emission reductions as well as further savings in water usage and increased usage of renewable energy.
Maryvale is a significant regional employer and combined with Australian Paper’s other local mills, contributes about $400 million annually to the Australian economy (Study from the Western Research Institute c/- Charles Sturt University, August 2005).
Things you didn't know about Australian made Reflex:
- The paper machine which makes Reflex is 100 metres long and runs at 900 metres per minute.
- Before it is cut into reams, 1 reel of Reflex paper takes about 1 hour to make, is 7 metres wide, 45 kilometres long and can be cut into almost 10,000 reams of Reflex.
- The Maryvale Mill employs over 1000 people.
- Australian Paper is committed to providing economic support to the communities in which it operates. As a result, the Maryvale Mill sponsors a number of local community and sporting groups.
Australian Made Office Products
The Reflex brand has now extended beyond office paper products category and launched the first of many quality stationery products including Reflex Ultra White envelopes, writing pads, notebooks and mailing labels. Click here for more information on these products.
Envelope manufacturing facilities at Preston, VIC
The new range of Reflex Ultra White envelopes are manufactured at our Preston facility in Victoria where approximately 100 employees produce over 250 various envelope products including Reflex. This facility specialises in stock envelopes, overprinting and can offer custom made envelope production. Every year, the plant produces close to a billion envelopes.
The facility encompasses nine major envelope production lines, including traditional correspondence, pocket, wallet and banker-style envelope lines. Our Preston Facility manufactures all of our Reflex Ultra White Envelopes, which include 11B, DL and C4.
Our Preston operations are certified to ISO 9001 standards for Quality Management. We also maintain high standards of environmentally responsibility, both in manufacturing processes and in the sourcing of raw materials, including paper. Most paper used at the Preston facility is supplied by Australian Paper from its Maryvale, VIC and Shoalhaven, NSW paper mills. And Reflex Ultra white envelopes are made from the same quality paper as the Reflex Ultra White office paper.
Stationery manufacturing facilities at Regency Park, SA
At our Regency Park facility in South Australia, approximately 60 employees produce over 350 different products plus custom-made products. The new range of Reflex Ultra White Mailing Labels are also manufactured at Regency Park.
Regency Park operations also produce other quality Australian Made products including:
- Exercise and binder books (including state-specific rulings).
- Office pads.
- Suspension files.
- Manilla folders.
- Scrap books.
The facility features nine major stationery manufacturing machines, plus supplemental machines. All are specific to the products they make and many are the only one of their kind in Australia. Our Regency Park facility manufactures the Reflex Ultra White Writing Pads and Conference Pads as well as the Reflex Print & PeelTM Mailing Labels.
Our Regency Park operations are certified to ISO 9001 standards for Quality Management. We also maintain high standards of environmental responsibility, both in manufacturing processes and in the sourcing of raw materials, including paper. Most paper used at the Regency Park facility is supplied by Australian Paper from its Maryvale, VIC and Shoalhaven, NSW manufacturing facilities.
* Please note: Reflex Ultra White Double Wiro Notebooks and Writing Pads are imported however are made using Australian Made Reflex Ultra White paper from Maryvale Mill. Reflex Print & PeelTM Mailing Labels are manufactured in Australian using local and imported materials.
