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UPM: focus on mutually beneficial outcomes with new labour agreements

UPM strike extended again

Strike action at UPM will run for an unprecedented four months, after the Paperworkers’ Union announced a further extension until 30 April.

Team ITG: "another brilliant milestone"

Bridgepoint returns as latest ITG backer

Bridgepoint Capital has returned for another bite of the Inspired Thinking Group cherry, taking a majority stake in the marketing services business for a second time.

Nespolo: "Tageos is a company with excellent growth prospects"

Fedrigoni enters RFID market with latest M&A activity

Fedrigoni Group has acquired a majority share of RFID specialist Tageos.

(L-R) FaberExposize UK's Luke Barraclough and Iain Clasper-Cotte

FaberExposize UK ups capabilities with latest Agfa install

Wide-format display specialist FaberExposize UK has taken on a new Agfa Jeti Tauro H3300 printer to support the further expansion of the business and its sister company Northern Flags.

Gas prices have rocketed. Image: ENA

CPI urges government to act on energy crisis

The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has published a position paper urging the government to act to support the UK’s paper-based industries during the current crisis of energy cost inflation.

YM Chantry: agency staff were sent home last night

Anxious YM workers demand clarity

Nervous workers at YM’s three up-for-sale web plants are awaiting clarity from the group’s bosses about the future for the sites, after Walstead apparently withdrew its interest in a possible rescue...

Webinar panel, clockwise from top left: Wenlock, Peeling, Neill and May

REGISTER NOW Printweek webinar on the future of commercial printing

Printweek is to host a live webinar tomorrow ambitiously titled ‘The future of sheetfed printing’ which, with an expert panel of print leaders, will discuss the largely untapped opportunity UV LED...

Pulp, paper and packaging unions held a global online meeting

Unions ask UPM shareholders to act over strike

A trio of global trade unions has written to UPM’s major shareholders warning that the group’s “anti-union stance is an investment risk”.

Bresky: Divestment will increase the focus on Stora Enso's defined strategic growth areas

Stora Enso to sell four of its five paper sites

Stora Enso has initiated a sales process for a possible divestment of four of its five paper mills.

Nitrox printhead is Xaar's fastest yet at 100m/min

Xaar back on front foot, readies new aqueous head

Xaar has reported a substantial turnaround in its 2021 results, and has announced plans to enter new markets such as textiles, wide-format and packaging with an aqueous printhead in the works that it...