Packaging

The pandemic fall out continues to impact the industry as two more print businesses hit the buffers and pre-pack to survive.

110 firefighters and more than 30 fire appliances have been tackling a “large-scale incident” at Smurfit Kappa’s site in Nechells, Birmingham.

Swiss packaging and label machine manufacturer Bobst has unveiled its latest portfolio of products.

Irish-owned global packaging company Zeus has acquired Swanline Group and its sister company BoxMart in an agreement worth more than €25m (£21.4m).

Agfa’s acquisition of the UK’s Inca Digital Printers has completed, as scheduled.

Shotton Paper Mill’s new owners are investing £600m to transform the site into “one of the world’s most technologically advanced paper mills”.

Packaging Innovations returned to Birmingham’s NEC earlier this week – more than two years after its last outing snuck in a month before the first Covid lockdown hit in early 2020 – and was warmly...

Epson has handed the UK show debut to its new C4000e desktop label printer at Packaging Innovations.

Caps Cases has installed the world’s first EFI Nozomi 14000 LED as it ramps up its offering for direct-to-corrugated digital production.

Flint Group Flexible Packaging Europe is set to increase prices effective from June 2022.