Packaging

Coatings and pressroom consumables manufacturer Ultrachem has launched a new range of UV flexo inks and refreshed its other flexo product ranges.

Fujifilm will launch its Illumina LED UV retrofit curing system in Europe later this month.

Ultimate Digital has installed a second HP Indigo 20000 digital press, becoming the first company in the UK to do so.

Reflex Group has acquired in-mould label (IML) specialist West Yorkshire Printing Company (WyPrint), in a bid to create a "strong, British contender".

Reflex Group is in the final stages of a re-equip of its label division that has seen £9m invested in 2017 and is intended to combat rising input costs and standardise production.

Epson has launched its SurePress L-4533 series of short-run label presses.

Kalas Packaging has installed an Omega Allpro 70 folder-gluer as it ramps up its new carton production offering.

Carton printer Beatus Cartons has kicked off a £4m year-long investment plan with the purchase of a seven-colour KBA Rapida 106.

The UK’s Recycling Association has named a number of packaging products as being the “villains” of the recycling world.

A year on from the collapse of Polestar, UK printers remain hopeful of winning back some of the work that migrated to the continent – and remained there – after the group’s failure.