Disciplines

The Printing Charity CEO Neil Lovell has praised the industry’s progress on mental health and wellbeing issues, while warning that print still has real room for improvement.

De La Rue has appointed Clive Whiley as its new non-executive chairman, favouring him over alternative candidates put forward by leading shareholders.

Birmingham wide-format and trade printer Hollywood Monster has acquired Leicester-based Sygnet Group from administration, taking the company to a combined turnover of £12m.

Metsä Board is set to initiate change negotiations on possible temporary layoffs for its paperboard and BCTMP (bleached chemi-thermomechanical pulp) mills in Finland.

Royal Mail has again called for “major reform” of the USO after posting a £1bn operating loss – reduced to a mere £419m, or £8m a week – on an adjusted basis.

Scotland’s Loxley Colour is set to install the UK’s first Fujifilm Revoria digital press after signing up for a top-of-the-range PC1120 model.

The first quarter of 2023 turned out to be more challenging than expected for the UK’s printing and printed packaging industry, according to the BPIF’s latest Printing Outlook report.

Kyocera has unveiled its entry into the direct-to-fabric (DTF) printing market, the ForEarth inkjet textile printer.

Italian specialty paper manufacturer Fedrigoni has released a new collection of premium self-adhesive label papers, the Sheets Exclusive Collection, alongside new packaging stocks.

Futurama is in administration amid a wall of silence from PFI Group about the situation at the business.