Packaging

Watermans Printers has brought its packaging finishing inhouse with a significant Heidelberg spend focused on streamlining production and turnarounds as it looks to grow that part of its business.

Fencor Packaging Group has thanked its staff for embracing the “Dunkirk spirit” during lockdown, helping it weather the Covid storm as it rounds off a two-year, £4m spend.

Two disqualified directors have been ordered to pay more than £80,000 in a confiscation order, or face imprisonment.

Macfarlane Group has promised to repay the furlough cash it has received from the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme after reporting that lockdown and the Covid crisis hadn’t impacted sales...

DS Smith has described its business model as “robust” after posting year end results that were boosted by a jump in e-commerce business caused by Covid-19.

Colour management software specialist GMG has revamped its ColorServer profiling suite to create a triumvirate of products with each fine-tuned to specific processes and applications.

Rigid Containers has invested £4m to boost its boxmaking capacity with a new Mitsubishi Evol 100/350 line.

The Alexir Partnership has moved to retain its independent status by becoming employee owned.

An eight-colour Rapida 106 X for commercial printing – billed as the world’s fastest perfecting press – has been showcased on the final day of Koenig & Bauer’s marathon 'Live' event.

James Cropper has posted record sales and profits after an eventful year that has seen its paper business return to profitability.