Packaging

Flint Group is engaging with potential buyers for its Xsys pre-press business according to a report from Reuters.

The pandemic-related parcels boom has resulted in a big jump in sales and profits at Royal Mail – with parcel revenues outstripping letters for the first time in the group’s five-century history.

Graphic Packaging is buying AR Packaging in the packaging industry’s latest mega-takeover.

UPM has agreed to sell its Shotton newsprint mill in North Wales to a subsidiary of Turkish conglomerate Eren Holdings.

A specialist printing firm has been fined a six-figure sum after an incident where an employee suffered asphyxiation after becoming entangled in a part of a press.

Agfa is expanding its partnership with Global Graphics to include workflow software from Hybrid Software.

Zanders Paper has gone into liquidation after attempts to save the business via a financial restructure proved unsuccessful.

DS Smith is claiming an industry first with a new tool that allows customers to rate the sustainability of their packaging choices.

Koenig & Bauer has reported a big jump in orders for sheetfed presses in Q1 thanks to “sharp growth in the more pandemic resistant packaging printing market”.

Converters and printers are getting imaginative with the latest digital tech.