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SEMAR IS AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING CONCERN specialising in high quality editions in humanities and social sciences and is the only publishing house in the world to use materials manufactured with conservation criteria that guarantee its publications both sustainability and an unprecedented durability.
This direct intervention on structural factors affecting the ageing of a paper-based work has changed the focus of attention from conservation to prevention and has led the company twice being awarded, in 1988 and 1989, the Premio Cultura of the Italian Presidency of the Cabinet, while creating wide interest with international centres for the study of preservation of cultural property.
The cross-cultural editorial line of the house aims for a better understanding among people by a deeper knowledge of their mutual culture, ideas, traditions and beliefs in a dialog intended to stimulate cultural diversity.
Resolute in its quest to carry out a cultural action in the widest sense of the word, Semar intends to grant each work the possibility to becoming, over the course of time, a historical witness, whilst also recognising the consumer's right to durability of the purchased product.
Besides the use of high quality materials, the publishing house, whose motto is Ut durent, places particular emphasis on the selection of content and on product design.
All materials employed by Semar throughout the production cycle, besides complying with the ISO 9706
requirements on permanence of paper, take into account the whole production cycle of the book as integral part of an environmentally sustainable policy.
Materials are selected and used according to an in-house patented procedure to confer a durability that ensures a gradual and homogeneous ageing process: inks with low concentration of acidity and lead; strings, twines and binding studied for durable conservation, including the most recent findings on the high pollution emissions given off by traditional types of glue used in the bookbinding industry.
Semar diversifies the use of materials according to the obsolescence of the product, while keeping clean production and zero waste as an aim in sight.
Semar is Fully Committed to the Preservation and Conservation of Our Cultural Heritage and of the Environment. Semer is supporting ISO 14001 and Environmental Management.
Our knowledge collection continues to grow through the expertise of our staff, advisers and partners.
In our site we are proud to build upon Semar's long commitment to the thrill of discovery and a lifelong love of learning, and we hope you will visit often.
We will continue to add products and partners of the highest quality and, as always, we welcome your suggestions. You may email your suggestion to us at any time.
ESTABLISHED 1986 | ISBN 978 88 7778
SEMAR PUBLISHERS Srl
THE NETHERLANDS
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