About
The canonical index of paper.
World Paper Index is the permanent, free, comprehensive entity graph of paper — every grade, mill, brand, and certification with a canonical ID (WPI-g-000042, WPI-m-000128, etc.). The IDs are permanent. Every fact on every page is grounded in source documents we preserve.
The industry is a $350 B global trade that still runs on email and Excel. Paper grade names alone have no canonical reference — one mill's “Kraft Liner 140” is another mill's “Testliner 2” is another buyer's “KL 140”. We fixed that first.
WPI feeds B2BPaper, the live surplus marketplace. Designers, procurement, print shops, mills, and journalists can use WPI for free; commerce flows through B2BPaper where mills and buyers actually transact.
Scale today
807 grades
10,836 aliases resolved · growing weekly
Provenance
16,257 docs
PDFs that ground every spec on the site
Commerce
B2BPaper
Sister marketplace · 350+ verified buyers, 40+ countries
Principles
- Free and open. The grade index is public. No paywall on the reference layer.
- Cite or don't publish. Every factual claim on the site points to a source row or document.
- Neutral. No mill pays to appear on a canonical grade page. Sponsored slots, when they exist, are clearly labelled.
- Permanent IDs. Once a
WPI-g-*is assigned, it never changes.