Paper

Proctor Paper & Board has rebranded with its two other companies, Buchanan Paper & Board and A&R Board Sales, to highlight its expanding service offering to customers.

De La Rue will start the mass production of polymer £5 notes this month, ahead of the new-style banknote’s launch in autumn 2016.

An Inverclyde paper company has bought the Trucard and Gemini brands from the Tullis Russell administrators KPMG.

Paperlinx aims to cut ties with its problematic past by renaming the continuing business Spicers, while its messy exit from Europe has propelled the firm to a A$392.3m (£183m) loss.

Warren has launched a reel-to-sheet service for Stora Enso’s Tambrite H/S folding boxboard.

German paper mill Scheufelen is moving into the packaging market after slashing graphic paper production and jobs and employing Tullis Russell Papermakers’ former UK sales manager.

DS Smith has been fined £400,000 after admitting to safety breaches that led to the death of a senior manager, who was dragged into a pressing machine.

Antalis UK is extending its series of regional workshops and adding six new sessions focused on signmaking.

L&S Display recently produced an eye-catching bespoke graphic application for the outside of auction house Christie’s King Street Gallery buildin in London.

Portucel Soporcel is to increase the European prices of its uncoated fine papers, sheets and reels, by between 4% and 8%, for the third time this year.