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Creatives celebrate Yorkshire Day at Leeds event

Representatives from Yorkshire’s print, creative and digital industries celebrated Yorkshire Day yesterday (1 August) at an event held at the Oracle Bar in Leeds.

James Cropper 'positive' in post-Q1 update

James Cropper is looking ahead to a positive financial year thanks to a “promising” first quarter that follows a year in which pre-tax profits were halved.

Floods hit northern printers in overnight downpour

A number of printers across parts of northern England are counting the cost of the heavy rain and floodwaters that have resulted in people needing to be rescued, roads being blocked and rail routes...

Earth Overshoot Day: printers urged to hail sector sustainability

Pro Carton has urged the carton and wider print sector to push the benefits of paper- and cartonboard-based packaging materials to highlight the sustainability crisis marked by Earth Overshoot Day.

Stanley Lane finds further fame

Octogenarian artisan printer Stanley Lane's search for a successor received a further boost this week with an appearance on Radio 4’s The Untold.

K&B boss derides competitor price cuts

Koenig & Bauer’s chief executive has taken a very public side swipe at price cutting by competitors – naming Heidelberg, Bobst and Komori – in the group’s half-year results.

CCM’s three Peeks set for Three Peaks Challenge

Three directors from print management company CCM Print are gearing up to complete the Three Peaks Challenge in support of the Cancer Research charity.

GEW to launch new LED curing system

GEW is set to launch its new LeoLED UV curing system in a bid to make the technology affordable and accessible, with versions for label printing and sheetfed offset available.

Vogue uses silver and neon for September issue

Windles Group has printed the covers for Vogue’s landmark September issue, the first covers the group has printed for the upmarket publisher.

TI, Kelsey and Hearst all make paper wrap moves

The shift to paper wrapping in favour of polywrapping is gathering pace, with three major publishers opting to make switches, including venerable weekly Country Life moving to paper wrap for its...