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Propack secures four-year contract with children’s charity
Propack has won a “five-figure” tender to provide four years of outsourced sponsorship activity for children's charity Plan International UK (PIUK).
Streamline, Baxters and Spectrum close their doors
The three operating Leicestershire print businesses of SBS Print Group have fallen into administration and have ceased trading with the immediate loss of 55 jobs.
Helloprint adds new API
Helloprint has added a new API to its trade printing platform Helloprint Connect to boost the automation of white label orders.
Intergraf warns on energy impact for print SMEs
Intergraf has warned that SME printing businesses are “bearing the brunt” of the ongoing energy price crisis.
Cullen to invest £15m and create 120 new jobs
Cullen Eco-Friendly Packaging is investing £15m in a new innovation and design hub as well as an additional factory at its site to meet increasing global demand for its moulded fibre and corrugated...
ePac makes huge commitment to HP tech
ePac Flexible Packaging has placed the biggest single order yet for HP Indigo presses as it moves to radically scale up its operations worldwide.
Clays celebrates UK first with apprenticeship results
Four apprentices at Clays in Suffolk have become the first in the UK to pass the Apprenticeship Standard for Print Technician Level Three course, qualifying them for a career in printing.
Immediate culls jobs, closes title as costs balloon amid economic woes
Radio Times publisher Immediate Media is closing one magazine and making more than 50 people redundant in the face of a “steep decline” in trading and a £9m increase in costs including paper and...
Unite challenges closure of Mediahuis’ Newry site
Trade union Unite has challenged the closure of Mediahuis’ Northern Irish newspaper printing site in Newry, where 46 jobs are under threat.
Industry paper and packaging bodies call for Europe-wide action on energy
Nine European associations representing the wood fibre value chain have issued an urgent call for the EC and European Parliament, and national governments, to act over the impact of skyrocketing...