Companies & suppliers

Propack has launched its own online sustainable greetings cards retail business, Planet Bee Cards.

Royal Mail has announced an inflation-busting near-16% increase in the price of First Class stamps, which will breach the £1 mark for the first time.

Macfarlane Group has acquired specialist protective packaging manufacturing business A.E. Sutton, which trades as Suttons Performance Packaging.

Irish packaging group Zeus has opened a new 6,500sqm logistics facility in Watergrasshill, Cork.

Manroland Sheetfed has streamlined its German operation with 140 jobs, around 15% of the workforce, going as a result.

Hunkeler Innovationdays has closed its doors after four very successful and busy days that saw the continuous-feed inkjet sector move well ahead of where it was in 2019 – the show’s previous outing.

Heidelberg has appointed a new head of global corporate communications from outside the industry.

Strike action by thousands of stevedores at Finnish ports, which it was warned could impact the paper and pulp industry, has reached a swifter than expected resolution.

FPL Signs has taken on a new VeloBlade Nexus digital die-cutting system from Vivid Laminating Technologies to bolster its in-house offering.

Pantone has added 224 mixed colours and five base ink colours to the Pantone Matching System – with some of the new formulations causing angst among printing industry pros.