Yupo 5 x 7 inch pad-white heavyweight yupo synthetic papers are extruded from polypropylene pellets. The process of extrusion occurs in their quarter-mile long manufacturing facility located in chesapeake, virginia. The various grades, weights and thicknesses of yupo are spun into spools in lengths from 725 yards to 7, 500 yards, which are cut in to widths from 6 to 66 inches. Yupo is the 100 percent recyclable, waterproof, tree-free synthetic paper with attributes and properties that make it the perfect solution for a variety of marketing, design, packaging and labeling needs. Artists know that yupo gives them an amazingly beautiful canvas to work with. Its smooth, bright white opaques and translucent give fine artists a medium that always goes big. This non-paper paper has become a best selling and most popular "alternative" watercolor paper.