Companies & suppliers

Global manufacturer Avery Dennison has agreed to acquire the European business of graphic and label media manufacturer Mactac, in a deal worth around $200m (£137m).

Vision Paper & Board has extended a range of graphical coated boards to target the greetings card market.

UK print industry manufacturers Xaar and Morgana Systems have reacted to a claim that exiting the EU would be "a wholesale risk to engineering in the UK".

Neville Chamberlain, described as a world-leading authority on offset printing blankets, has died aged 80.

The Plockmatic Group, owner of UK finishing product supplier Morgana Systems, has this week completed the purchase of Italian bindery kit manufacturer KGS.

Print media and textile suppliers Texo Trade Services has made available a 5m-wide protective paper for sublimation calendars of the same width, in what it calls a world first.

Denmaur Independent Papers has re-launched the Revive carbon balanced recycled papers brand and sought to position it as a key tool in what was called the "new economics of a climate change world".

The owner of a supplier to the printing industry has been fined after a young apprentice lost his finger after it was caught in a rotary die press.

Litho and digital printer Opal Print has invested in Air Motion Systems (AMS) LED UV technology.

Alex White, managing director of finishing kit manufacturer Blackman & White, stated his desire for the UK to remain in the EU at Sign & Digital UK.