Packaging

API Foils employees to strike over enforced T&C changes

Workers at packaging specialist API Foils' Livingston plant will go on strike at midnight tonight over alleged continual mistreatment by the company.

Envelope companies in row over domain names

Two envelope converters have become embroiled in a dispute over internet domain names.

Denny Bros' Fix-a-Form labels used in UEFA EURO 2012 promotion

Label printer Denny Bros has teamed up with SCA Packaging for the first time to promote UEFA EURO 2012 official sponsor Canon.

Elanders joins nanography queue

Global printing group Elanders has signed up for three Landa Nanography presses at Drupa.

Edale enters Indonesia with distribution deal

UK press manufacturer Edale is to sell its range of products in Indonesia following the signing of a new agreement with Bangkok-based distributor Rotary Technology Partnership.

Presstek posts profit and points to drupa enthusiasm

Digital offset printing equipment supplier Presstek managed to squeeze out $500,000 Q1 EBITDA, as cost cutting helped offset a 13.9% sales decline compared with the same period last year to $27...

RPM regrows business with short-run packaging

Traditional commercial printer RPM Solutions has found a new niche to rebuild its business: short-run, small carton packaging.

French algae problem creates opportunity for eco-friendly paper

Italian paper manufacturer Favini is harvesting algae blooms caused by pollution off the French coasts of Brittany and Normandy to create its environmentally-friendly artistic paper range Shiro Alga...

Tamar Labels eyes international growth with Labelit acquisition

Tamar Labels is aiming to hit the £4m turnover mark next year after acquiring Irish self adhesive label printing company Labelit for an undisclosed sum.

Firstan takes a nanographic 'leap of faith'

Packaging manufacturer Firstan said it has "taken a leap of faith" in investing in the UK's first Landa S10 nanographic press for the folding carton market.