Board File with Cotton Tag, Pack

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The plain board file that every Indian office runs on, 250 mm by 350 mm so it takes A4 and Foolscap both, in 1.5 mm greyboard with a 45 cm cotton lace through two brass-eyeleted holes. Greyboard is made from recovered paper. That is not a green initiative anybody arranged, it is simply what greyboard is, and printing the word recycled on it without a figure would be taking credit for the material's nature. So the figure is printed instead. The failures in this category are all at the hole. A board file with no eyelet tears through in a month, because a cotton lace under tension against bare board is a cutting edge. A file with a cheap plated steel eyelet rusts and stains the top sheet through a monsoon. And a file with a nylon lace sold as cotton frays into a hard plastic thread that saws at the board.

• Board is 1.5 mm greyboard, about 900 GSM, 100 percent recycled fibre with about 70 percent of it post-consumer, from the mill furnish declaration and checked by fibre microscopy on a lot sample
• Because it is recovered fibre it carries mineral oil residues, the MOSH and MOAH fractions. Stated plainly. Nothing here touches food, which is why it is acceptable in this item and refused in the tissue range on this store
• Two 6 mm holes at 80 mm centres, each with a rolled brass eyelet. Eyelet pull-out force measured, and brass because a plated steel eyelet rusts and marks the top sheet
• Lace is 45 cm of 6 mm cotton tape, 100 percent cotton by fibre identification, not a nylon tape finished to look like cotton
• Bursting strength to ISO 2758 and ply bond measured, so the board does not delaminate at the corner when it is pulled off a shelf by the edge
• Folding endurance to ISO 5626 at the spine crease, which is creased on a rule rather than folded by hand
• Capacity about 300 sheets of 75 GSM
• Uncoated and unlaminated on both faces, so it takes a marker pen directly and it will scuff. That is what an unlaminated board does and there is no film on it to prevent it
• No plastic anywhere. The whole file, lace and all, goes into paper recycling with the brass eyelet removed by the mill's own screening
• Rs 70 a file at five, Rs 65 at ten, Rs 59.50 at twenty