Print buying

De La Rue has entered into a new strategic partnership with Opalux, a specialist producer of smart materials for security printing applications.

Polestar’s administrators were forced to take legal action against one of the failed print group’s biggest publishing clients in order to recoup a seven-figure sum.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook re-lived some student memories when he visited the Iggesund Paperboard paper mill and forest in Sweden earlier this month.

Overmatter is very well aware that this industry scrubs up very nicely, very nicely indeed, and there is of course no better opportunity to show off a bit of finery than at the PrintWeek Awards.

Mike Roberts, the Independent Print Industries Association’s (IPIA) new chairman, has called upon the print industry at all levels to work to attract potential talent.

Moo has appointed another senior executive with experience of taking companies public, heightening speculation that the fast-growing firm could be gearing up to float.

Outsourcer Inspired Thinking Group (ITG) has a new owner and is planning a “huge push” into the US market.

The European Commission has approved Advent International’s takeover of Williams Lea Tag, while a high-profile executive’s name has been linked with a future senior role at the group.

Walstead Group has filed its first set of results as a consolidated entity encompassing all of its UK and continental operations, and has also reasserted its ambition to acquire more businesses.