Environment
Cost of escalating workplace disputes
The government has called time on free support for employment tribunals, claiming that the taxpayer shouldn't bear the cost. But the unions see this as a return to Victorian times for the workers.
Fire chiefs to beef up safety advice to businesses
Print industry leaders have welcomed a commitment from the Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) to work with businesses to improve how fire safety regulations are enforced.
Noise in print still hazardous, HSE finds
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is to publish online a series of findings detailing noise exposure levels and their implications across the print industry.
EFI wins latest patent lawsuit
A Spanish appeals court has backed an earlier ruling that claims of patent infringement brought against Cretaprint are meritless.
CWU mulls balloting members on Royal Mail strikes
CWU reps are to decide next week if they should ballot Royal Mail workers on a national strike, in a move that will inevitably raise tensions at ongoing negotiations with the postal operator.
New ISO standard 'will be increasingly important to print buyers'
A new ISO standard has mapped out a common method for calculating the carbon footprint of printed products.
Privatisation plan raises hackles and hopes in equal measure
There's little doubt that Royal Mail bosses welcome the government's long-awaited pledge to privatise the group, but for some in the print industry, it's a poison pen letter, tainted with the threat...
UK employers need to get clued up on pension obligations
Retiring to the Costa Blanca, becoming a golf pro, turning a small back lawn into a veritable Kew Gardens. All visions that have for most people of late, begun to seem rather distant and ambitious...
Royal visit marks opening of James Cropper pioneering recycling plant
Paper group James Cropper has developed technology capable of recycling millions of disposable coffee cups into the highest-quality papers for luxury brands.
Paperlinx opens Shanghai office and mulls China imports
Paperlinx has opened an office in Shanghai, China to serve as its Asia sales office and also offer a route to expand its European portfolio of products manufactured in Asia.