Environment

UPM achieves sustainability accolade
UPM has been named industry leader in environmental sustainability in the Paper and Forest Products sector in the Dow Jones European and World Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

Timber regulations turn over a new leaf
That nothing even closely resembling the new EU Timber Regulations (EUTR) existed before they were launched in March, is kind of surprising. Most would probably have assumed that introducing illegally...

JR Press embarks on £400,000 finishing kit spend
Daventry-based JR Press has installed a new Heidelberg Polar 78 ECO guillotine as part of a wider move away from commercial print into B3 packaging.

Don't throw away your tax comeback
Deficits, cuts and public spending have been the defining topic of political discourse in post-crunch Britain, which means the subject of taxation is never far behind.
Shotgun wedding for European paper giants?
As mega-mergers go, the potential combination of UPM and Stora Enso's European paper assets is hard to top. The resulting entity would produce 16m tonnes of paper annually, control 40% of the European...

DM sector up in arms over postcode file access proposals
It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive database of its kind in the UK, holding details of more than 29m business and residential addresses, and for many it is invaluable. Few in the direct...

Royal Mail privatisation kicks off ahead of CWU strike ballot
Royal Mail kicked off its initial public offering (IPO) today just as the CWU was sending out ballot papers to postal workers for strike action opposing the privatisation.

York Mailing first UK printer to achieve EU Ecolabel
York Mailing has become the first UK printer to be awarded an EU Ecolabel license for printed paper products.

UK Print sceptical of Miliband's business rate plans
Ed Miliband will announce plans to freeze small business rates for two years, from April 2015 to April 2017, in his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference this afternoon.

Don't fall victim to workplace hazards
Red tape. Definitely something that features prominently on printers' top-five-things-to-grumble-about lists. And yet seemingly overly prescriptive government legislation is often there for good...