Equipment manufacturers

Star Product: Hunkeler WI8
Hunkeler’s high-performing web inspection system.

Me & My: Boomerang Boomer 6
Since it was founded, 50 or so years ago Newport-based Lexon Group has continuously evolved its business offer. The company started out providing vinyl tax disc holders to the motor industry in...

Me & My: Bobst Visionfoil 104
Herbert Walkers’ fourth Bobst hot foiling machine has doubled productivity of embellishment for packaging, its fastest growing sector.

Our Christmas gift to you, your December & January issue, may have made its way down the chimney a little ahead of Santa's schedule, but as usual it is jam-packed with business and technology long reads and snappy news roundups...
The issue kicks off with our review of the year as a timely reminder of just how eventful the past 12 months have been, and for those of you that prefer to look forward, it's followed by our...

UPM braced for strike action at Finnish ops
UPM is facing the prospect of three weeks of strike action at its Finnish mills from the start of the new year, at a time when the industry is already dealing with shortages and a supply squeeze on...

Heidelberg sells more of German site to VGP
Heidelberg has sold 80,000sqm of space at its main Wiesloch-Walldorf site in Germany to specialist developer VGP Group.

Durst makes new senior hire as industry veteran retires
Durst has appointed a new UK and Ireland business development manager for the northern region to replace retiring industry veteran Richard Bates.

Flint OPS flags further price increases
Flint Group has flagged that prices across its offset products for packaging will need to go up again early next year.

Industry names on A List
A number of industry firms have appeared on the A List produced by international environmental non-profit organisation CDP.

K&B lays out new ‘Exceeding Print’ strategy
Koenig & Bauer (K&B) has raised the scale of its sustainability ambitions and goals with a new group strategy and outlined details on how it aims to continue its transformation from a traditional...