Packaging

UPM has agreed to sell its Shotton newsprint mill in North Wales to a subsidiary of Turkish conglomerate Eren Holdings.

A specialist printing firm has been fined a six-figure sum after an incident where an employee suffered asphyxiation after becoming entangled in a part of a press.

A management buyout has taken place at automated filling and packaging machinery manufacturer Advanced Dynamics.

Agfa is expanding its partnership with Global Graphics to include workflow software from Hybrid Software.

Packaging giant Macfarlane Group has reported sales in the first quarter 15% ahead of the same period in 2020.

Zanders Paper has gone into liquidation after attempts to save the business via a financial restructure proved unsuccessful.

DS Smith is claiming an industry first with a new tool that allows customers to rate the sustainability of their packaging choices.

Koenig & Bauer has reported a big jump in orders for sheetfed presses in Q1 thanks to “sharp growth in the more pandemic resistant packaging printing market”.

DS Smith said trading in the second half of its financial year continued to build positively on the trends and momentum that it reported last month.

Converters and printers are getting imaginative with the latest digital tech.