Mergers and acquisitions

Community celebrates new deal at Chapelle Darblay mill. Image: Community of Rouen

New life for UPM mill

UPM’s shuttered Chapelle Darblay newsprint mill in France is set to be reborn as a cardboard production site under its new owners.

Hague: exciting new chapter

Hague expands with PSL buy

Hague Group has returned to the acquisition trail with a deal to buy PSL Print Management.

Atlas Packaging is an independent corrugated packaging provider

Smurfit Kappa acquires Atlas Packaging

Smurfit Kappa UK (SKUK) has acquired corrugated packaging provider Atlas Packaging.

Despairing duopoly dominates April’s headlines

You could be forgiven for having a strong sense of Déjà vu when checking out April’s listicle of our most-read stories, although Paragon thankfully managed to shoulder its way into our top 10 to break...

Slee (L) with Print Evolved founder Ivor Jacobs

Print Evolved acquires VR Print

Web-to-print software developer and printer Print Evolved has continued its strategic growth programme with the acquisition of VR Print.

Bex Design & Print is based in Calne. Image: Google Maps

Bex Design & Print acquired by Amcomri Group

Engineering and manufacturing specialist Amcomri Group has acquired screen and digital printer Bex Design & Print.

Speedset B1 sheetfed: likely to use more than 30,000 litres of ink per year. 

Agfa: Inca deal gives us 'best and most advanced solutions'

Agfa boss Pascal Juéry believes the group’s acquisition of Inca will allow it to speedily enter new high-growth inkjet markets and dramatically increase ink sales.

Inca Onset X inkjet platform with automation

Agfa to acquire Inca

Agfa has swooped to acquire Inca Digital Printers from Screen in a move that has numerous ramifications in the wide-format inkjet market.

Olympus Print Group operates from a 5,000sqm production site. Image: Google Maps

Olympus Print Group acquired by German group

Olympus Print Group has been acquired by Hamburg-headquartered All4Labels Global Packaging Group.

BHS Corrugated RSR runs at up to 300m/min with a width of up to 2.8 metres

Screen: deal with Agfa should complete by end of May

Screen has confirmed that the deal with Agfa to acquire its two inkjet subsidiaries based in the UK is expected to complete by the end of May.