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James Cropper makes self-sanitising paper
UK specialist papermaker James Cropper is poised ready to ramp up its production of antimicrobial papers to meet an anticipated rise in demand as brands look to rise to the coronavirus challenges.
Overmatter: Bed and board
Cardboard boxes, cardboard displays, cardboard desks and chairs, cardboard coffins… even entire buildings have been constructed from cardboard tubes. As most of us in the industry well know, cardboard...
Review of 2019: Arjowiggins – the great unravelling
At the end of 2018, Arjo owner Sequana had agreed to sell the Graphic and Creative papers arm to Dutch firm Fineska in a deal worth €125m, but the deal collapsed in early 2019 after the buyer got cold...
Metsa Board offers new plastic-free food packaging
Metsa Board has developed a new plastic-free paperboard for the food industry market that can easily be recycled.
Summa to release new 3.2m-wide cutters
Summa is to release two new wide-format flatbed cutters for the textile and board markets: the F3232 and the F3220.
Digital tech takes corrugated to the next level
Corrugated looks set to be the next big adopter of high-speed single-pass digital printing technologies. It’s a natural progression up in capacity from the big flatbed industrial inkjets that are...
Oppboga Bruk mill targets UK sign and display market
Swedish paper mill Oppboga Bruk is on a drive to expand its sales in the UK sign and display market following the appointment of a British managing director.
Iggesund invests €60m in mills in Sweden and UK
Holmen Group has announced a €60m (£46m) investment to boost production capacity at its subsidiary Iggesund Paperboard's mills in Workington, UK and Iggesund, Sweden.
High-speed digital targets corrugated
Often seen as the carton’s less profitable and glamorous relation, corrugated packaging can often be overlooked. And yet, while digital printing of conventional cartons seems to have stalled, this is...
Paperlinx extends vehicle wrapping training programme and signs new distribution deal
Paperlinx has announced an extension to the vehicle wrapping training courses it runs in partnership with UK Sign Group (UKSG) as well as an exclusive UK distribution deal with Greek white lined...