Environment

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.

Chancellor urged to boost business support in the Budget 2014
Business groups including the BPIF, Institute of Directors (IoD) and Forum of Private Business (FPB) have called on the chancellor of the exchequer to step up support for businesses in his penultimate...

Polestar fined for worker injury
Polestar has received a £10,000 fine for health and safety failings after a member of staff was injured using a machine at one of its factories.

Funding for Lending figures show decline in net business lending to SMEs
Net lending to SMEs from the 34 banks that are participating in the one year extension to the Funding for Lending scheme (FLS) declined by £1.3bn in Q2-Q4 2013 while net lending to households from the...
Print (on paper) saves the planet
Jo Francis is excited by scientific research that sounds like good news for paper.

Euro MPs approve new tobacco legislation
The European Parliament has formally approved changes to the Tobacco Products Directive paving the way for EU member states to independently introduce further amendments such as plain packaging.