Packaging

A fire which broke out at a printer in Lincolnshire over the weekend has written off millions of pounds worth of kit and brought business to standstill.

North Print & Pack 2013 has opened for visitor registration, with the show's organisers targeting 3,000 visitors for the May event.

The government today passed a law that will obligate businesses dealing with timber products to keep diligent records of the supply chain in a bid to tackle illegal logging.

As an increasing number of food products found to contain horsemeat are removed from supermarkets, the UK packaging sector remains unfazed.

Chesapeake will install Europe's first Komori GLX 740RP at its Limerick plant next week as part of a multi-million euro upgrade.

Heidelberg has established a Very large Format and Postpress Packaging division, appointing company veteran Stefan Hasenzahl to head it up.

Global consumer packaging firm AGI-Shorewood is set to close its Swindon site, potentially putting around 80 jobs at risk.

KBA has announced a 2.5% price increase for its sheetfed offset presses, effective from 15 April 2013.

Following customer feedback to its range of packaging pre-press tools launched at Drupa FFEI has launched a modular suite of Illustrator plug-ins, RealPro Toolkit.

Komori UK has promoted Steve Turner to director of sheetfed sales.