Environment

Government outlines proposals to tackle late payments to SMEs

Following a consultation with businesses, trade bodies and professional associations, the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS) has set out proposals to help address the problem of late...

Internships can deliver much more than just the tea

From Monica Lewinsky and that infamous cigar, to the ongoing debate around cheap or even unpaid labour, the subject of internships can be controversial. There have been plenty of headlines in recent...

Kodak predicts processless plate 'shift'

Kodak believes the adoption of processless plates is reaching a tipping point akin to that experienced with the adoption of CTP – and is citing potential savings for users running into tens of...

PEFC launches new Responsible Business Platform

PEFC has launched a new online verification platform, to go live hopefully by the end of this week.

Strengthening the FSC chain could lose it valuable links

FSC – not, most would agree, the most popular acronym in print. The majority of printers of course wholeheartedly support the organisation’s ethos and are more than happy that the majority of papers...

Potts secures major theatre contract

Potts Print (UK) has won a three-year contract, which will be worth in excess of £300,000, for all the print and mailing for a prestigious theatre company.

B&B Press orders UK's first LED UV presses

Rotherham-based B&B Press has become the first UK printer to order LED-UV offset presses, investing over £1m in a Sakurai Oliver 480SD LED UV four-colour and 580SD LED UV five-colour press.

Denny Bros cuts energy bill with solar investment

Denny Bros expects to cut its total annual power consumption by at least 6% after installing 200 50KW solar photovoltaic panels on the roof of its Bury St Edmunds production facility.

Does progress mean it’s time to allow APP in from the cold?

Just over a year on from Asia Pulp & Paper’s (APP) announcement of the implementation of its forest conservation policy (FCP), which centres on a moratorium on all natural forest clearance activities...

Budget 2014: Osborne unveils raft of business support measures

George Osborne billed his fifth budget yesterday as one for "the makers, the doers and the savers" as he unveiled a raft of new measures designed to support British businesses.