Packaging

As an industry that uses plastics on a daily basis, what do UK print and packaging businesses really feel when they hear the material being berated?

Repentant Ablebox has been stung with a bill of £13,017 after the "criminal" disposal of waste ink turned the nearby river Yeo purple.

Fujifilm has added a higher-performance model to its sheetfed inkjet offering, and has billed the third-generation Jet Press 750S as “the fastest B2 full-colour digital press on the market”.

Cumbrian papermaker James Cropper has reported a steep pre-tax profit drop in the first half of the financial year as it continues to be impacted by higher pulp prices.

Kodak has agreed to sell its flexo business to Montagu Private Equity in a deal expected to be worth up to $390m (£301m).

Pouring a proper pint of Guinness can take a while, as the firm itself pointed out in its famous ‘good things come to those who wait’ adverts.

Oxford-based start-up Wallaroo believes children are the future, that’s why it’s doing what it can to make its healthy snack packs as appealing to kids as possible with their colourful packages.

Box maker Grahams Cartons has been fined almost £60,000 by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) for an incident with an unguarded casemaker in which an employee lost two fingers.

Orders continue to rise at Koenig & Bauer but sales at the press manufacturer have been hit by a bottleneck in parts supply that has hit delivery schedules.

Parkside has launched what it believes is a unique fully recyclable single-polymer laminate for crisp, drink and tobacco packaging.