James Cropper PLC manufactures and sells papers products and advanced materials. It operates through Paper, Colourform, and Technical Fibre Products divisions. The company offers specialty papers and boards; and molded fiber products, as well as converts paper. It also manufactures wet-laid nonwovens used in aerospace, defense, fuel cells, composites, automotive, construction, and applications, as well as metal coated carbon fibers. It has operations in the United Kingdom and other European countries, Asia, the Americas, Australasia, and Africa. The company was founded in 1845 and is headquartered in Kendal, the United Kingdom.