Companies & suppliers

Green (L): Ultraflex will be able to get creative with financing the machines

Ultraflex adds Agfa wide-format machines to stocklist

Consumables supplier Ultraflex Europe has added Agfa’s Anapurna and Avinci wide-format machines to its product offering.

Klose: Seeking more guidance from the French government

Intergraf flags French law regulating mineral oils

Intergraf has highlighted a French law regulating the use of mineral oils in printing inks, which it said is impacting the European market, including European printers placing printed products on the...

Heinzel will take over the Steyrermühl site from UPM on 1 January 2024. Image: Heinzel

Heinzel to convert idled Steyrermühl paper machine

Heinzel Group is set to convert an idled paper machine at the Steyrermühl mill in Austria to produce sustainable kraft papers for flexible packaging.

(L-R) Propack MD Jason Clough with CEO and founder Neil Lloyd

Propack launches sustainable greetings cards business

Propack has launched its own online sustainable greetings cards retail business, Planet Bee Cards.

Royal Mail: 25% decline in letters compared to pre-pandemic

Royal Mail hikes stamp prices, agrees new talks with CWU

Royal Mail has announced an inflation-busting near-16% increase in the price of First Class stamps, which will breach the £1 mark for the first time.

Atkinson: "Suttons is a profitable, well invested company with an experienced management team"

Macfarlane Group acquires Suttons

Macfarlane Group has acquired specialist protective packaging manufacturing business A.E. Sutton, which trades as Suttons Performance Packaging.

O’Sullivan: "This will greatly improve our capability within the region"

Zeus opens new Irish logistics facility

Irish packaging group Zeus has opened a new 6,500sqm logistics facility in Watergrasshill, Cork.

The factory is still able to make 500 printing units this year

Manroland Sheetfed streamlines after losses

Manroland Sheetfed has streamlined its German operation with 140 jobs, around 15% of the workforce, going as a result.

There was a buzz in the air in Lucerne

Busy and successful Hunkeler Innovationdays highlights sector advances

Hunkeler Innovationdays has closed its doors after four very successful and busy days that saw the continuous-feed inkjet sector move well ahead of where it was in 2019 – the show’s previous outing.

Pitzinger: Heidelberg is a pearl of German mechanical engineering

Heidelberg appoints new comms and brand champion

Heidelberg has appointed a new head of global corporate communications from outside the industry.