Print buying

Jarrold: "November was the strongest month since the start of Covid"

Cost pressures and supply shortages hamper industry growth

The UK printing and printed packaging industry continued its recovery in Q4 but threats to future recovery and growth remain prominent, particularly from increased Covid disruption and the spiralling...

The surcharge will be applied across the CPW division's entire publication ink portfolio

Flint Group CPW division to implement surcharge

Flint Group’s Commercial Publication Web (CPW) division will implement a surcharge for all of its publication products effective for deliveries from 1 March 2022.

The increase is effective for all dispatches from 1 March onwards

Navigator to increase UWF prices again

The Navigator Company will increase uncoated woodfree (UWF) paper prices in Europe by 8-15% from next month.

NEC Graph-Fix: Covid hit cashflow at Walsall firm. Image: Google Maps

NEC Graph-Fix in administration

NEC Graph-Fix has gone into administration, with the firm’s business and certain assets sold to connected company TNJ Holdings.

The business has invested in layflat book production

WTTB adds layflat books alongside Book Super Centre launch

WTTB has unveiled its new Book Super Centre, which will offer a raft of new book production capabilities including layflat books following investment in new kit.

The UV curing process is instantaneous

The future for sheetfed offset?

GEW's Jamie Neill gets under the hood of UV LED curing technology and looks at its place in sheetfed offset printing and its relevance to today’s commercial printer looking to streamline production...

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UPM: Union "seems to be playing for time" at the expense of their members and UPM’s businesses

BPIF joins calls to urge swift end to paper shortage

The BPIF has joined forces with Intergraf and Finat to urge the end of strike action at UPM's Finnish paper mills.

Fire damage at the Apsley site. Image: Frogmore Paper Mill

Frogmore updates after fire

Frogmore Paper Mill has confirmed that a “significant amount” of irreplaceable artefacts were lost in last month’s fire – although its historic paper machines survived the worst of the blaze.

Balcony Shirts: "to raise so much money was brilliant”

Balcony Shirts turns spoof design into charity gain

Balcony Shirts has raised more than £800 for homeless charity Shelter after producing a one-off t-shirt inspired by the Downing Street lockdown parties scandal.

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Coveris launches new stretch film that meets PPT requirements

Coveris has launched a range of lightweight, next generation stretch films that contain a minimum of 30% recycled content to reduce reliance on virgin plastics and meet forthcoming UK Plastic...