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Xanita print is fit for a palace

Wednesday 09. October 2024 - When Cotswold Printing was commissioned to create the display for the charity Turning Points recent exhibition at Kensington Palace, there was no doubt in Cotswold Printings mind that Antalis Xanita would be the right choice of substrate.

A series of displays at Kensington Palace were created for an exhibition by Antalis’ customer Cotswold Printing, using Xanita Print
A walk-through exhibition to celebrate 60 years of Turning Point was created by Cotswold Printing and MHP Group to tell the stories of people involved with the charity. Through a series of exhibition panels and plinths exhibiting 60 objects, a story was told about the history of Turning Point and the users and supporters of the service, including the late Princess Diana who was a patron of the charity.
All the display panels and plinths for the exhibition, housed in the newly opened Clore Learning Centre at Kensington Palace, were made from Xanita Print 10mm.
Managing Director, Adam Soble, at Cotswold Printing, commented: “We’ve been using Xanita for five years, and it has become our go-to product for 2D and 3D exhibition printing. We love the versatility of the product range; it combines a durable print surface with an incredibly strong core.”
Adam opted for Xanita Print 10mm for this exhibition because of its strength and ability to be V-cut and folded to create the panels and displays. It also gave them the flexibility to adjust the display on site: “Accessibility was an important aspect of the exhibition, and because our client wasn’t sure how high they wanted the plinths to be initially, we designed an adjustable system where the internal face was scored at 50mm intervals, meaning we could adjust the height easily during installation to suit visitors of all physical abilities,” explains Adam.
The option to buy Xanita in widths of 2.4 and 3 metres is also an important factor: “It means we can produce tall, elegant displays from a single piece of board,” comments Adam. Of all the cardboard-based display boards Cotswold have used over the years, they’ve found the core of Xanita to be durable and versatile: “It allows us to continue to evolve our designs and push the boundaries of our creations,” Adam says.
The Xanita Print range is a 100% repulpable engineered, closed-cell fibreboard, manufactured with a corrugated kraft core made of recycled cardboard boxes. In addition to being environmentally friendly, Xanita is also lightweight and very strong, making it the ideal solution for a wide range of decorative and structural applications, including POS, shop-fit, exhibition design and even stages.
Product Manager for Visual Communications at Antalis, Paul Neale, comments: “This is a great example of the endless versatility of Xanita. Its key features, such as strength, durability, and light weight, encourage experimentation in display design, plus, it’s fully recyclable as paper waste at the end of its life, so an ideal sustainable replacement for other bulkier materials like MDF.”