Companies & suppliers

Macfarlane has acquired specialist protective packaging company B&D, in line with its strategy of building its own protective packaging business through a combination of organic and acquisitive...

A manufacturer of specialist pigments used for a range of applications including ink and papermaking has been fined £200,000 after a driver suffered chemical burns at its site.

While the passing of Heidelberg's Mark Singer, Xerox’s Drupa withdrawal, and The National Trust offshoring its Handbook were the top stories, the month featured its fair share of good news too.

Konica Minolta has enhanced its monochrome portfolio of digital printers with the new AccurioPress 7136 series.

Xerox is set to purchase all of the company’s shares that are owned by activist investor Carl Icahn for around $542m (£442m).

Kodak has launched Version 10.0 of its Prinergy workflow software.

Catherine, Princess of Wales visited historic textile printer Standfast & Barracks on Tuesday (26 September) as part of a tour of northern textile manufacturers.

Grafenia is changing its name to Software Circle to “better reflect who we are”.

Marketing services company Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) has appointed industry specialist Darren Singer as its new chief financial officer to spearhead its global growth charge.

Union Unite has criticised packaging printer Cepac Darlington, which it claims that – in addition to threatening redundancies – has also told staff that they will be “fired and rehired” on inferior...