Packaging

New apron: from idea to fruition in a few days

Skymark aprons combat PPE shortage

Flexible packaging company Skymark has begun producing protective antimicrobial aprons to help tackle the PPE shortage among healthcare workers in the UK.

Heidelberg stats: UK commercial print output has crashed to the most serious impact level

Heidelberg performance data details virus impact

Heidelberg is making data from thousands of its presses worldwide publicly available for the first time as it charts the impact of the coronavirus on different parts of the printing industry – and the...

Transcend face shield in production

Transcend pivots to PPE with help from Close Brothers

Transcend Packaging has moved quickly to mass-produce face shields for frontline workers thanks to a fresh finance arranged with Close Brothers Asset Finance.

Flint: solvent surcharge introduced this month

Flint and Siegwerk introduce solvent surcharges

Two more inks groups have been forced to add a solvent surcharge to their inks and coatings as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted solvent availability and pricing as raw...

Green Gift Cards present opportunities for premium and personalised outputs

Transcend Packaging launches eco-friendly gift cards

Transcend Packaging has launched the world’s first sustainable gift card using paperboard provided by Iggesund.

Necessity the mother of invention for new mask-making line

Intamac adds mask-maker to product line-up

Intamac Packaging Systems is bringing a new machine for producing medical masks to the UK market.

BrewBoard's Pugh (left) with Tonejet customer operations specialist Lukas Littva

Tonejet Cyclone used by craft brewer for short run production

Independent craft brewer BrewBoard has expanded its offering of exclusive and original craft beer can designs with Tonejet Cyclone direct-to-can digital printing technology.

HSE fined Boxes and Packaging (Oxford) for £10,000 plus £2,560 legal costs

Boxes and Packaging fined for forklift incident

Boxes and Packaging (Oxford) has been fined more than £12,000 after an employee was struck by a reversing forklift truck.

Adrian Marsh will continue with DS Smith as its group finance director

DS Smith CFO decides against William Hill move

DS Smith chief financial officer Adrian Marsh has informed the company's board that he will not now be joining bookmaker William Hill.

Koenig & Bauer: sheetfed orders are up

Koenig & Bauer shares rise on results

Press manufacturer Koenig & Bauer has described its core markets as “fundamentally intact” in year-end results that have understandably been overshadowed by the ongoing coronavirus crisis.