Companies & suppliers

Spring Statement 22: industry reacts
The industry and business groups have offered a lukewarm welcome to the Spring Statement, which in the eyes of many didn't deliver the levels of support businesses need.

Cards-x acquires access control systems specialist
ID card specialist Cards-x, which has bases in the UK and Germany, has acquired a German business that specialises in access control systems for large-scale events.

Canon extends ProCare service programme
Canon has extended the coverage of its ProCare after-sales service programme for its full Large Format Graphics portfolio.

UPM Pulp strike settlement proposal submitted
The conciliator for Finnish Paperworkers’ Union Paperiliitto and UPM Pulp has submitted a proposal for a settlement in the collective labour agreement negotiations between the two parties.

'We came out stronger than we went in'
When Heidelberg CEO Rainer Hundsdörfer took over as boss of the industry’s largest press manufacturer five years ago, the world was a very different place.

Esko and CERM collaborate on world-first integration
Esko and CERM have collaborated on what is claimed to be a world-first integration that has enabled a Belgian printer to automate its workflows to produce complex labels.

Avery Dennison acquires linerless labels IP from Catchpoint
Avery Dennison has acquired Yorkshire company Catchpoint's IP for the dispensing of linerless labels.

More paper price increases flagged up
A raft of new paper price increases are set to be rolled out in the next few weeks by papermakers who are continuing to battle rising costs of their own.

Vivid launches new packaging software
Vivid Laminating Technologies has launched a new CAD/CAM packaging software to enhance the use of its VeloBlade Volta and VeloBlade Nexus digital die-cutting systems.

Premier enhances display graphics offering
Premier’s Dartford facility has undergone a raft of developments to help the paper merchant to facilitate the continually growing demand of the sign and display industry.