Companies & suppliers

James Cropper has posted a £200,000 operating loss for the first half of the year, but expects to return to profitability in H2 on the back of strong sales growth – and the business has also spent...

Unite members at UK Smurfit Kappa sites are understood to be balloting over strike action as they reportedly want a 10% annual pay rise.

Bowe Group has invested in a specialist software business that promises to revolutionise the time and costs involved in deploying autonomous robots.

MIS and workflow specialist eProductivity Software (ePS) aims to evolve its annual user conference, Connect, when it returns in January.

Screen Europe is moving to a new, larger HQ building near to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

Nearly 1,000 members of union GMB at DS Smith are balloting for industrial action over a real terms pay cut.

Agfa has signed its first contracts for the Inca Speedset single-pass sheetfed inkjet press, and for Agfa-branded Onset wide-format printers.

Stronger than expected growth in orders and output helped the UK printing and printed packaging industry’s continued recovery in Q3, but the forecast for Q4 is downbeat as confidence expectations...

Heidelberg UK is back in the black and its German parent group has just announced an order backlog of more than €1bn (£877m) “for the first time in years”.

A study conducted by Roland DG across the UK and Europe has found that over a third (35%) of shoppers avoid entering shops with badly maintained storefronts, and the manufacturer has kicked off a...