Packaging

Polestar has renewed its contract to print two weekly supplements for Guardian News & Media, but will lose two others because the publisher is going to print them in-house.

Prinovis UK has officially opened its new on-site Learning Centre at its Liverpool print plant.

Proventus Capital Partners has appointed four directors to Polestar Print Holdings, including a former Quebecor executive.

Packaging manufacturer and printer Americk ASP Flexibles will more than triple its footprint this year in a £7m move to a new site in Wigan.

KBA (UK) has taken on two new high-profile staff to help with its flexo drive and sheetfed press sales.

Prinovis UK celebrated the launch of its year-long programme in support of the Vision for Literacy Business Pledge by holding a reading-themed Christmas party for its employees’ children.

Polestar has found a new chief financial officer with a long track record in working for private equity companies on business turnarounds and profit improvement programmes.

The corrugated packaging sector will go from web offset to digital “very quickly”, according to HP EMEA’s most senior Graphics Solutions Business executive, who plans to start a switch-to-digital...

Swedish private equity fund Proventus Capital Partners is in the process of ‘taking control’ of Polestar, resulting in the exit of the print group’s former owner Sun Capital Partners.

Wyndeham Group owner Walstead Investments is prepared to launch a bid for Polestar if the opportunity arises, PrintWeek can reveal.