Companies & suppliers

Metsa Group has said that it expects "no significant price changes" to its uncoated paper, liner and folding boxboard (FBB) expected in the coming months, while coated paper prices are expected to...

Sappi is to increase prices for the second time in three months with a five to seven per cent increase to be implemented across its coated fine paper grades from April.

Polestar has given workers at Chromoworks 30 days' notice of the closure of the facility.

Large format printer XG Group has immortalised Manchester United's Busby Babes team in a 30x20m flag to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the Munich Air Disaster.

Xerox has added a single engine duplex (SED) machine to its waterless CiPress inkjet printer range.

Howard Hunt is testing the new, upgraded version of Kodak's Prosper 5000 inkjet web press.

UK manufacturer Benford UV has claimed to have "broken" Canada with a triple installation for its first customers in the country.

UPM has agreed the sale of its Stracel mill as the group announced it had made a EUR 1.6bn (1.4bn) operating loss in Q4 2012.

Newcastle-based commercial printer Statex has boosted its print capability with a double installation including both litho and digital kit.

Paperlinx's marketing director Philippa Charlton has left the company along with a number of others as the paper merchant realises the workforce reduction it proposed in November.