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Printing ink suppliers are split over the need to raise their prices as they combat major increases in the costs of raw materials.

Arctic Paper's public takeover offer to shareholders of Swedish pulp manufacturer Rottneros has been unanimously recommended by the Rottneros board.

An open letter signed by 60 non-government organisations (NGOs) has been sent to investors in Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) urging them not to back the controversial Indonesian company.

Paper manufacturer Tullis Russell has taken on thirteen trainee recruits thanks to support from Fife Young People's Initiative.

Antalis McNaughton has developed two new swatches to help digital colour printers identify which substrates to print on for the best results with both dry and liquid toner digital presses.

Favini's latest innovation in packaging paper, Crush, has won the Green award at its launch at Luxepack 2012.

Fedrigoni UK will celebrate its 20th anniversary by giving away Highgrove china coffee cups to the three clients that tweet the best designs on Fedrigoni paper.

Xaar has signed up its first Asian ink partner in the form of Taiwanese supplier China Glaze Company and is optimising its digital ceramic inks for use with Xaar printheads.

Paper manufacturer James Cropper is in line to receive a 3.2m grant from the Regional Growth Fund (RGF) for its proposed steam raising plant.

QuadTech has launched a computer-controlled volume ink metering tool after acquiring the intellectual property from US-based Controls Group Inc.