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Nettl Systems is Grafenia's printing industry software wing

Grafenia plans £28m fundraising

Grafenia has dramatically upped its plans to expand via more M&A with a new fundraising that could raise nearly £28m.

Director breached the terms of the CBILS loan scheme

Signage boss barred over Covid loans

The director of a signage business has been banned for misuse of taxpayer-backed Covid loan support.

A4 Laser Labels and Interket team seal the deal

A4 Laser Labels expands with harmonious acquisition

A4 Laser Labels has expanded its offering and expects to double sales after acquiring the specialist office labels business from neighbouring firm Interket.

Cepac produces corrugated packaging and serves a raft of major clients. Image: Cepac

Cepac initiates redundancy consultation at Darlington as strike impacts

Cepac said ongoing strike action at its Darlington site has forced the business to begin a redundancy consultation, with the potential loss of up to 61 jobs as it accelerates its restructuring plan...

Mail continues to be an effective store footfall driver

Mail effectiveness reaches highest point in a year

JICMail, the joint industry currency for ad mail, has released its data for Q2 2023, which revealed that despite another challenging quarter for UK advertisers, the effectiveness of the mail channel...

A Gucci leather bag with multi-colour floral print. Image: Gucci

Agfa files patent case against Gucci

Agfa has lodged a patent infringement case against luxury fashion house Gucci, related to inkjet printing onto leather.

Pacapime is based in Halle, Belgium

Saica acquires minority share in Belgian business

Saica Group has reached an agreement to acquire a minority share of Belgian corrugated cardboard company Pacapime.

Andrew Hewitson, CEO: Reproflex3 is looking to grow

Reproflex3 buys Durham platemaker

Reproflex3, the Northumberland pre-press, flexographic platemaker and FMCG packaging printer has acquired ANF, a flexo printing plate manufacturer in County Durham.

Investigators from Royal Mail found discrepancies that exposed the fraud

Firms admit £70m postal fraud

The trial involving a £70m fraud against Royal Mail has come to an abrupt end after a dramatic change of plea.

Juéry: SpeedSet 1060 will be the fastest printer in its category

Agfa grows inkjet sales in Q2

Sales at Agfa’s Digital Print & Chemicals wing were up nearly 6% in Q2, with the business gearing up for commercial availability of its SpeedSet B1 inkjet press next year.